Digital storytelling is a way to present classroom materials using media supplementing the normal literature. For example, if I were to teach a lesson on Hamlet, I could take a scene, and talk about the specifics, use a youtube clip to show a scene from one of the movies, powerpoint broken down into each player's part, and audio clips using the authentic British accent.
Mathematics can certainly be tough to learn, especially when the student is more artistically inclined, as I am. The book recommends teachers use graphing calculators to help students learn more efficiently. I know graphing calculators certainly helped me learn slope, and other mathy stuff.
We can't learn how to do something until we do it. We've always heard this. My PE teacher in elementary school told my class, "You can't learn to play football from watching football. You learn to play football from playing football." Granted, students may know more about a specific subject from watching a TV episode about the specific subject, they won't know it through and through.
Crismond, D., Howland, J., Jonassen, D., Marra, R. M. (2008). Meaningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Pearson.
