twenty revelations about digital storytelling in education- jason ohler

Digital Storytelling

Digital stories in the classroomNew Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, & Creativity(Corwin Press, August, 2007)

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling


Fundamentals shifts

20 revelations about:•Digital story telling, new

media narrative•New Media Literacy•Art the 4th R•Life in tEcosystem


MATERIALS


•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?


Digital native info landscape…

Then…


Digital native info landscape…

(Prensky)

Then… Now…


•New media narrative

•Creation vs. consumption

•Speaking their own language with their own tools

•New media, games, tecosystem are story environments

What’s digital storytelling about?


What’s digital storytelling about?•Tech serving story,

and not vice versa…

•What happens when give bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

•Transformation 1st, events 2nd…

•Being hero of own, life learning story…


What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good!

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day


What’s digital storytelling about?•Low end vs. high end

•Bullodozers vs. hammers

•Working with what you have - it’s all good

•Adapting to a no budget, no time environment

•Working around, with existing school day


• Leave clicks, tricks to kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback

Teacher more important now…


Teacher more important now…• Leave clicks, tricks to

kids with time

• Deputize: guide on side not technician magician

• Create learning communities

• Quality, wisdom

• Assessment, feedback


AssessmentReason teachers don’t require more new media projects from students??

Not comfortable assessing new media…

So, let’s help them…

Role of media grammar in new media…


Beneath story: storyboards, story maps, scripts, photos, footage, music, logs, media lists, narratives, treatments…lots of writing “under the radar”…if it ain’t on the page…

A digital story is:

• Just tip of iceberg

• Portfolio unto itself

Assessment


Problem(tension) Solution

(resolution)

Transformation

Story Core

Story


Story Core


Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

2. Develop storyboard or outline and script


Traditional story planning process

1. Get a story idea

NO!2. Develop storyboard or outline and script


New story planning process

1. Get a story idea

3. Develop storyboard or outline and script

2. Develop story mapNew!


Key concept: Story mapping vs. boarding…

…the flow of emotion vs. the flow of motion…

VS.

:

New!


(Dillingham, 2003; modified Ohler 2005)

VPS + transformation = quest

Transformation


(resolution)

Beginning End


Story Core


Story Core within the story map

(Ohler, 2005)

Transformation

Story


(resolution)

Beginning End


DAOW of literacy…

Digital storytelling blends a number of literacies…

Including MEDIA LITERACY…

(4thR)


New frontier…

= new pedagogies…

+

Story thinking Analytic thinking+


Twenty Revelations about

Keystones 2007

www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

…digital storytelling, new media literacy in education


Revelation 1:

I know only one thing for certain about the technologies that await us in the future: we will find ways to tell stories with them.


Revelation 2:

The digital revolution would have been a storytelling revolution if early computers had booted up in a word processor instead of a programming language.


Revelation 3:

Digital technology is assistive technology for the artistically challenged.


Revelation 4:

The digital revolution in a sentence: finally, we all get to tell our own story in our own way.


Revelation 5:

Art is the 4th R.


Revelation 6:

What happens when you give a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?


Revelation 7:

It is the special responsibility of teachers to ensure that students use technology to serve the story and not the other way around.


Revelation 8:

Learning communities are storytelling communities.


Revelation 9:

The attitude is the aptitude.


Revelation 10:

Stories help us make sense out of the chaos of life.


Revelation 11:

Story provides a powerful metaphor, framework, and set of practical processes for resolving issues, educating ourselves, and pursuing our goals.


Revelation 12:

Students need to become heroes of their own learning stories as well as of the stories they tell with their own lives.


Revelation 13:

Stories help us remember.


Revelation 14:

Combining storytelling and critical thinking defines an important pedagogical frontier.


Revelation 15:

Digital stories allow today’s students to pursue academic content in their own language.


Revelation 16:

Digital storytelling helps students develop planning skills that are transferable to many endeavors.


Revelation 17:

Digital stories combine traditional and emerging literacies, engaging otherwise reluctant students in literacy development.


Revelation 18:

Digital story creation offers an effective means to teach media literacy.


Revelation 19:

Digital storytelling helps students develop creativity and innovation skills needed to solve important problems in imaginative ways.


Revelation 20:

offer to help them use technology with care and to tell their stories with clarity and humanity.

Technology doesn’t make teachers obsolete. Quite the opposite. Now more than ever, students need the guidance and wisdom that teachers


Go tell your story!

www.jasonOhler.comThank you…

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