What classroom tools can teachers use to make learning more enjoyable?

This could be achieved with digital storytelling which offers new ways to connect formal and informal learning environments and encourage students’ active learning and knowledge creation with multimedia stories. It is a tool for knowledge sharing that advances 21s century skills, especially problem solving and creativity.

Student-driven knowledge creation through digital storytelling enables to break classroom boundaries with digital stories. These can present different sets of events. Some focus on instances of the object of study and others have more complex plots. While the former act like zoom-in lenses of the classroom narrative, the latter build up networks of actions. In both cases the students can act as storytellers and as characters. The characters of the stories can be real or fictional. Stories can have a close relationship with themes grounded in curricular requirements, or can be indirectly linked with it.

Overall, digital storytelling for student-driven knowledge creation produces subject-based, interdisciplinary and student-initiated stories in multimodal formats.These result in enriched and embodied learning experiences. 21st century learning therefore calls for the development of multiliteracies and multimodalities as well as holistic and integrative approaches to teaching and learning.