Digital Storytelling - Students as Historians

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

sari.halavaara@espoo.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

juha-pekka.lehtonen@espoo.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

• www.digitalcitizenship.com

Digital Citizenship

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

Antti

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