I view digital storytelling as a way to assess student learning. Students are much more enthusiastic about creating an Animoto to show me what they retained when the other choice is a multiple choice test. However, this alternative assessment cannot replace standardized testing, at least not in the foreseeable future. So, I use these tools in addition to a traditional test.
That being said, “Digital Storytelling” is very valuable in that I find much more can be gleaned about what students retain when they are displaying what they learned using online tools. Students have an opportunity to display information or concepts they retain that a multiple choice test does not provide.
I also feel that having students display what they learned causes them to manipulate data or content, as opposed to just regurgitating it, which is what a multiple choice test is asking them to do. For example, I can have my students memorize what the “climax” of a story is and have them match the word to the correct definition on a worksheet, or I can have them create a story that has a climax in it. Students are more apt to retain what a climax is if they create one, rather than just memorizing it.
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