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This website was created as a professional resource for teachers interested in integrating digital storytelling (DST) into their social studies classrooms.
Storytelling has always been a way to communicate with others, even before written communication. Digital Storytelling “unites the best of two worlds” by incorporating the use of multimedia tools, including audio, images or graphics, and video, to create narratives and share them with others (Cersosimo, 2019).
Storytelling has also played an essential role for Indigenous peoples in Canada, whose oral histories, knowledge and traditions have been passed down by elders since time immemorial. With the importance of reconciliation and incorporating Indigenous Ways of Knowing into the curriculum, DST offers many advantages for classroom teachers.
The goals of the website are to:
The goals of the website are to:
Highlight how DST can be used in the K-12 social studies classroom to guide students towards culturally relevant, authentic meaning-making and gamified learning opportunities
Offer professional learning for teachers about DST in the social studies context, integrating gamified learning and considerations for Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing
Supply lessons and resources for teachers to use DST with students
Address challenges and barriers of DST faced by teachers
This resource was created on and for those living on the traditional and unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We would like to respectfully acknowledge and thank those nations as we continue our work to decolonize physical and digital spaces.
This resource was created on and for those living on the traditional and unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We would like to respectfully acknowledge and thank those nations as we continue our work to decolonize physical and digital spaces.
This resource was created to be used by anyone living on Turtle Island, on the traditional territories of nations who have been here since time immemorial. It recognizes and respects the histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations.
This resource applies the following First Peoples Principles of Learning:
Learning supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the spirits and the ancestors.
Learning is reflective, experiential and relational.
Learning is embedded in memory, history and story.
To learn more about the people who occupied this land before us, please visit https://native-land.ca/.
References:
Cersosimo, G. (2019). Digital Storytelling, In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J.W. Sakshaug, & R.A. Williams (Eds.), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036853253
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