Twenty Revelations about Digital Storytelling in Education- Jason Ohler

1. Digital stories in the classroom New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, & Creativity (Corwin Press, August, 2007) www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling

3. MATERIALS

5. Digital native info landscape… Then…

6. Digital native info landscape… (Prensky) Then… Now…

14. Assessment Reason 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…

16. Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Transformation Story Core Story

17. Story Core

18. Traditional story planning process 1. Get a story idea 2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

19. Traditional story planning process 1. Get a story idea NO! 2. Develop storyboard or outline and script

20. New story planning process 1. Get a story idea 3. Develop storyboard or outline and script 2. Develop story map New!

21. Key concept: Story mapping vs. boarding… … the flow of emotion vs. the flow of motion… VS. : New!

22. (Dillingham, 2003; modified Ohler 2005) VPS + transformation = quest Transformation Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Beginning End

23. Story Core

24. Story Core within the story map (Ohler, 2005) Transformation Story Problem (tension) Solution (resolution) Beginning End

25. DAOW of literacy… Digital storytelling blends a number of literacies… Including MEDIA LITERACY… (4thR)

26. New frontier… = new pedagogies… + Story thinking Analytic thinking +

27. Twenty Revelations about Keystones 2007 www.jasonOhler.com/storytelling … digital storytelling, new media literacy in education

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Revelation 3: Digital technology is assistive technology for the artistically challenged.

31. Revelation 4: The digital revolution in a sentence: finally, we all get to tell our own story in our own way.

32. Revelation 5: Art is the 4th R.

33. Revelation 6: What happens when you give a bad guitar player a bigger amplifier?

34. 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.

35. Revelation 8: Learning communities are storytelling communities.

36. Revelation 9: The attitude is the aptitude.

37. Revelation 10: Stories help us make sense out of the chaos of life.

38. Revelation 11: Story provides a powerful metaphor, framework, and set of practical processes for resolving issues, educating ourselves, and pursuing our goals.

39. Revelation 12: Students need to become heroes of their own learning stories as well as of the stories they tell with their own lives.

40. Revelation 13: Stories help us remember.

41. Revelation 14: Combining storytelling and critical thinking defines an important pedagogical frontier.

42. Revelation 15: Digital stories allow today’s students to pursue academic content in their own language.

43. Revelation 16: Digital storytelling helps students develop planning skills that are transferable to many endeavors.

44. Revelation 17: Digital stories combine traditional and emerging literacies, engaging otherwise reluctant students in literacy development.

45. Revelation 18: Digital story creation offers an effective means to teach media literacy.

46. Revelation 19: Digital storytelling helps students develop creativity and innovation skills needed to solve important problems in imaginative ways.

47. 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

48. Go tell your story! www.jasonOhler.com Thank you…

49. Go tell your story! www.jasonOhler.com Thank you…

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52. Diagrams, books cited, continued… Kay, A. (1996). “Revealing the elephant: The use and misuse of computers in education.” Sequence , 31 (4), 1-2. Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling Cookbook and Traveling Companion . 3 ed. Berkeley: Digital Diner Press, 2003. McKee, John. Story- Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting . New York: HarperCollins, 1997. McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man . New York: McGraw-Hill. MomaDay, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn . New York: HarperCollins, 1969. Nueroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: New York: Laura Geringer, 1985. Porter, Bernajean. Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories . Sedalia: Porter Publications, 2004. Simmons, Annette. The Story Factor . Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1997. Tarantino, Quentin. Pulp Fiction . 1994. Telford, Kenneth. Aristotle Poetics, Translation and Analysis . Chicago: Regenery, 1970. Theodosakis, Nikos. Director in the Classroom . San Diego: Tech4Learning Publishing, 2001. Toelken, Barre. "The Icebergs of Folktale: Misconception, Misuse, Abuse." Who Says? Essays on Pivotal Issues in Contemporary Storytelling . Ed. Carol Birch. Little Rock: August House, 1996. 35-63. Works cited, cont.