Digital Storytelling Curriculum Connections
"Learning environments aren't revolutionized by installing a few cool gadgets here and there. Far more important is the educator's role in employing today's technology to make material accessible and engaging - in other words, encouraging students to CREATE, COMMUNICATE and COLLABORATE in ways never before possible". Mark Stevens, NEA Today Journal
Digital Storytelling and Cross Curricular Competencies
Developing Thinking
K-12 Goal: Think and learn contextually
Apply prior knowledge, experiences, and the ideas of self and others in new contexts
Analyze connections or relationships within and/or among ideas, experiences
Recognize that a context is a complex whole made of parts
Analyze a particular context for the ways that parts influence each other and create the whole
Explore norms, concepts, situations, and experiences from several perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and worldviews.
K-12 Goal: Think and learn creatively
Create or re-design ideas by adding, changing, removing, combining, and separating elements
Imagine and create central images or metaphors for subject area content or cross-disciplinary ideas.
Developing Literacies
K-12 Goal: Construct knowledge related to various literacies
Acknowledge the importance of multiple literacies in everyday life
Understand that literacies can involve words, images, numbers, sounds, movements, and other representations and that these can have different
interpretations and meanings
Access and use appropriate technologies to investigate ideas and deepen understanding in all areas of study.
K-12 Goal: Explore and interpret the world using various literacies
Inquire and make sense of ideas and experiences using a variety of strategies, perspectives, resources, and technologies
Select and critically evaluate information sources and tools (including digital) based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
Interpret qualitative and quantitative data (including personally collected data) found in textual, aural, and visual information gathered from various media sources
Use ideas and technologies in ways that contribute to creating new insight.
K-12 Goal: Express understanding and communicate meaning using various literacies
Create, compute, and communicate using a variety of materials, strategies, and technologies to express understanding of ideas and experiences
Respond responsibly and ethically to others using various literacies
Determine and use the languages, concepts, and processes that are particular to a discipline when developing ideas and presentations
Communicate ideas, experiences, and information in ways that are inclusive, understandable, and useful to others
Select and use appropriate technologies in order to communicate effectively and ethically
K-12 Goal: Think and learn contextually
Apply prior knowledge, experiences, and the ideas of self and others in new contexts
Analyze connections or relationships within and/or among ideas, experiences
Recognize that a context is a complex whole made of parts
Analyze a particular context for the ways that parts influence each other and create the whole
Explore norms, concepts, situations, and experiences from several perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and worldviews.
K-12 Goal: Think and learn creatively
Create or re-design ideas by adding, changing, removing, combining, and separating elements
Imagine and create central images or metaphors for subject area content or cross-disciplinary ideas.
Developing Literacies
K-12 Goal: Construct knowledge related to various literacies
Acknowledge the importance of multiple literacies in everyday life
Understand that literacies can involve words, images, numbers, sounds, movements, and other representations and that these can have different
interpretations and meanings
Access and use appropriate technologies to investigate ideas and deepen understanding in all areas of study.
K-12 Goal: Explore and interpret the world using various literacies
Inquire and make sense of ideas and experiences using a variety of strategies, perspectives, resources, and technologies
Select and critically evaluate information sources and tools (including digital) based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
Interpret qualitative and quantitative data (including personally collected data) found in textual, aural, and visual information gathered from various media sources
Use ideas and technologies in ways that contribute to creating new insight.
K-12 Goal: Express understanding and communicate meaning using various literacies
Create, compute, and communicate using a variety of materials, strategies, and technologies to express understanding of ideas and experiences
Respond responsibly and ethically to others using various literacies
Determine and use the languages, concepts, and processes that are particular to a discipline when developing ideas and presentations
Communicate ideas, experiences, and information in ways that are inclusive, understandable, and useful to others
Select and use appropriate technologies in order to communicate effectively and ethically