1) Storytelling is a powerful tool for learning that has been used across cultures and throughout history to convey knowledge, values, and social structures. 2) Digital storytelling combines narrative with digital media like images, sound, and video to create short, emotionally engaging movies. Digital pedagogies use instructional frameworks within technology-mediated learning, like connectivism and gaming. 3) Stories engage learners by showing them what to do and why, conveying what is valued in a community, and indicating what constitutes knowledge within that community. They can be used to teach facts, procedures, principles, critical thinking, and problem solving.

1. STORIES The Instructional Value of Storytelling Dr. Patricia McGee (UTSA) Sloan-C Conference San Francisco, CA 6.18.2009

3. Technical staff

4. Instructional Designer

5. Developer

7. Cultural identity Personal narrative Knowledge management Collective consciousness Lifelong learning

8. Digital Storytelling … the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. EDUCAUSE 7 things you need to know

10. Gaming

11. Virtual/immersive

13. Storytelling as..

14. How can we make sure learning happens?

15. How instruction typically gets attention

16. There will be a test!

17. There will be a test!

18. Facts Procedures Principles Strategies Critical thinking Problem solving Creative thinking

20. What is valued

21. Often informal yet enculturated

22. Measurement of what is known

23. Indicator of what knowledge means

25. Story as… scenario problem

29. Publication Model of Community

30. Portfolio Model of Community

31. Structure and Design What works

32. What we know about stories …

33. 7 elements of storytelling The Center for Digital Storytelling

43. How-to teaching others

44. Persuasion

46. Learner as Expert/ SME

47. Debate

50. Is a digital story ever done? Re-telling and learning

51. Re-telling Parable Legend Fable

52. Re-telling? Different archetypes?

53. Archetypal plots (Pearson, 1998)

56. Journalism

57. Creative Writing

59. Peer reviews

62. Telling a fable (Snowden, 2004)

63. Story structure frameworks Histrionic Digressive Polytrophic Teleological

64. Jennifer Poo

65. Dialogic storytelling Burbules (1983)

66. O’Neill, 2002 HIGH Need Fulfillment TIME A R C S LOW Color HIGH Color Keller, 1999 LOW Need Fulfillment

67. Interactive storytelling

68. ?

70. Just because we use a method Doesn’t mean we are telling an effective story or that students are learning

71. Telling + teaching ENGAGEMENTof the listener/learner through multiple means PREPARATION of the listener/learner for future learning

72. Things Smallby Cynthia Dassler

73. Co-narration

75. Learners telling stories

76. Novices Focus on discrete details Capture empirical information Focus on the use of formulas and previously learned strategies Operate at lower levels of thinking Caveat: Learners are not novices at everything

77. Experts Have deep and complex memory of information Have situational and applied frameworks to quickly retrieve knowledge ‘See’ the underlying theory, models, and principle Focus on understanding the problems Caveat: Teachers are not experts at everything

78. Mental Function and Skill Level: Five Stage Model Workplace experience (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1980, p. 15)

79. SOLO Taxonomy Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes

80. Many tools operate at novice level Heroes among us THIRST

81. HURRIERModel of Listening TRANSFER

82. Process of Digital Processing TRANSFER

83. Social Media keitaishousetsu– cell phone novels Twitter Blogs Phones iPods Games Facebook Skype YouTube Meetup Flickr Ustream The Sims

84. Design Frameworks Learner Portfolio Cases Debate Problem Solving Portfolio Pedagogy Peer/Expert critique Cooperation Collaboration Distributed intelligence Games

85. Engage

89. MIT Museum w/o Walls

90. Critical Reflection (Brookfield 1987, 1991, 1995)

91. Critical Reflection

92. Connectedness Wisdom Understanding principles Knowledge Understanding patterns Information Understanding relations Understanding Data (Bellinger, Castro & Mills, 2004)

94. Create and maintain feedback loops

95. Empower members over timeKim, A. J., (2000). Community building on the web.Peachpit Press.

97. Citizen Journalism

98. Mentoring

99. How-to Teaching

101. And that’s the end of the story! Patricia.mcgee@utsa.edu