digital storytelling - students as historians
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Digital Storytelling -
Students as HistoriansSari Halavaara & JP Lehtonen
Olari Secondary and Upper Secondary School, Espoo
Jyväskylä 8.6.2017
TEHO2017
Sari Halavaara, MA, ADE
Teaching since 1984
History, Social studies
Entrepreneurship
Currently at Olarin lukio
www.olari.fi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sari-halavaara-4554b2101/
Awards: History teacher of year 2012
Juha-Pekka Lehtonen, MA, ADE
Teaching since 1988
History, Social studies
Entrepreneurship
Currently at Olarin lukio
www.olari.fi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juha-pekka-lehtonen-73434634/
Awards: History teacher of year 2012, ICT Educator 2016
Our presentations: https://www.slideshare.net/juhapekkalehtonen5
Inquiry based learning
Curriculum Reform 2016
Anderson and Krathwohl – Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised
Digitalization of learning
Early start 2001
Short history of digitalization in Olari
Shared
devices
2011
1:1
personal
device
2013 -
before 2011
Timeline
Airplane teaching
vs. student centered digitalized learning
Digital Citizenship
SAMR -model
Digital Storytelling in History
Education
Our story:
How it all started?
How to tell a good story using
digital technology and tools?
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=vZrf0PbAGSk
http://www.tech4learning.com/ http://dstfinland.ning.com/
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.cfm
https://www.storycenter.org/
Digital stories
• personal narratives.
• historical digital stories
• stories that inform or
instructRisto
What is DST
• Short videos
• Low threshold
technology
• Personal narrative voice
• Expressing emotions
and feeling
• Social sharing - online
peer to peer
• Encourages creativity
• Individualize learning
• Suits different abilities
• Empowers learners
Digital family historiesCourse work in mandatory Finnish history course
Story of my family during war years 1939 - 45
Atte
Sara
Why DST?
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Work process
Presenting
Planning
Producing
Gathering and evaluating sources
PicturesInterviews Books
Voices
Objects
FilmsMusic
Search engines
Experts
Lotta
Copyrights
Applications for digital storytelling
• iMovie
• Explain Everything
• Puppet Pals
• Comicstrip
• Little Story Creator
• Puppet Edu
• Adobe Sparks
How to assess and
evaluate digital content?
Evaluation
Digital storytelling in the
classroom:
www.tech4learning.com
Historical skills
Combining historical
knowledge
Interpreting sources
critically
Occasinally showing critical
thinking
Extracting data directly from
sources (usually from one
source)
Difficulties to consider
history properly when
thinking or writing about
something
- Ahistorical approach
- History is a random story
Juha Vänttinen 2009
Challenges
Teacher
• Time for personal guidance
• Teacher in limits of his/her
competence - visual
Student
• Sharing and researching
sensitive issues
• Staying in the comfort zone
Institutional challenge
It is not easy, but …
it’s worth it.
Other examples of digital content creation
Blogs and learning
diaries
Challenge based
learning -projectsDST
”Lesson stuff"
Own e-books Digital timeline
Lesson ”stuff”
Green screen