Digital Storytelling and Digital Literacy

Abstract

This chapter reveals the overview of digital technologies; the overview of digital storytelling in education; and the overview of digital literacy in education. Digital storytelling and digital literacy are very important in modern education. Digital storytelling is used to improve student's learning through multimedia in the modern classrooms. Digital storytelling is the expressive medium that can explain even the most intricate topics in depth, integrating it with the rest of the curriculum. Digital literacy is the ability to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills. Digital literacy leads to the great increases in information that can be conveniently accessed. The chapter argues that developing digital storytelling and digital literacy skills has the potential to improve both teaching and learning performance in modern education.

Impact of E-Learning Activities on English as a Second Language Proficiency among Engineering Cohorts of Malaysian Higher Education: A 7-Month Longitudinal Study

“…The results from the digital storyboarding content in the current study showed that cohesion was maintained or at least attempted across sentence structures and word correlativity, as shown in Table 11. While digital storytelling is still recent compared to other e-learning techniques to be integrated into education or language learning to be specific, it can improve problemsolving, creativity, perspective building, and higher-order thinking [49].…”