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.
I agree with you! One is going to have to rely on other resources other than tv alone to fully understand and master a skill.
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Very well said! I agree that you can't learn something until you try it for the most part. This is me all over. I love photography and I read about how to work photoshop but i don't learn it until I actually sit down and Maneuver t hrough the different items. But there has been some cases where I have learned something without necessarily doing it. But this has happened very little. I think it just depends on what it is I am learning!
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