Digital Storytelling in Early Childhood Prekindergarten Classrooms
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSr9TJQttGDuakYiWM1w-YrtZjLcnFwwT0xQw&s Topic Introduction In today's early childhood classrooms, literacy evolved beyond traditional print and encompasses a variety of modes, including digital and participatory formats. Young children engage with and create meaning using images, sound, movement, and technology, alongside conventional reading and wiring activities (Yuksel-Arslan et al., 2016). As a preschool educator, I am particularly interested in how digital storytelling tools can enhance children's roles as active storytellers rather than passive listeners. By integrating the concepts of new literacies, multimodal learning, and student agency, digital story-making emerges as a powerful method that enables children to design, narrate, and share their ideas through diverse forms of expression. This approach bolsters emergent literacy skills like vocabulary, narrative structure, and print awareness, and also fosters crea...