Digital Storytelling is a powerful learning tool. Teachers can use digital storytelling to introduce projects, themes, or any content area, and let students make their own digital stories and share them. Teachers can create digital stories to help class discussions, as an anticipatory set for a new topic, or help students gain a better understanding of abstract concepts. These stories can become an integral part of any lesson in many subject areas. When students create their own digital stories, they take ownership of the material they are introducing, analyse and synthesize information and express their own thoughts and ideas. All this supports higher-level thinking.

When students participate in the multiple steps of designing, creating and presenting their own digital stories, they develop a range of skills, including

·          research skills when documenting the story,

·         writing skills when developing a script

·         organization skills by managing the scope of the project within a time constraint.

They learn about technology through their use of a variety of tools, such as digital cameras and multimedia software, coding environments, and presentation skills through the presentation of the story to an audience. Students also gain interview, interpersonal, problem-solving and assessment skills through completing their digital story and learning to receive and give constructive criticism. Digital storytelling can be approached as collaborative work between teams, so the children also develop teamwork skills.

Based on the principles of constructionism and play digital storytelling:

·         increases the enthusiasm to read and re-read, because doing so allows us to find stories

·         improves the ability to listen, and to express ourselves publicly

·         allows learners to project and express emotions, feelings, and thoughts

·         can be used at any age, from pre-school to college

·         develop empathy.