A critical reflection on the use of digital stories to improve digital literacies in pre service teacher students
have become culturally diverse, especially former Model C schools, Indian and Coloured schools
What are digital stories?
This study focuses on a project carried out in 2010 in the Faculty of Education at a University of Technology in South Africa. Diverse student population, from coloured, white and black African demographic backgrounds. English is the language of instruction at this institution which, for many students, is not their mother tongue.About half of the class of 60 students volunteered to join the digital stories project, while the rest of the class followed the traditional route of paper-based portfolio. Both groups’ instructions were to reflect over the seven roles of a teacher, which are the basis of the South African National Teacher Curriculum (Department of Education, 2000).Khanye lab, should be availble in all schools in Western Cape, free or open source software
Phenomology:
Research question 1
Analysis shows that the students came to realize that minorities in classrooms may fail to actively participate due to the literate practices and interaction of their culture being different from those in the classroom. The class-teacher and other students may interpret that those from the minorities are incapable or not cooperative. However, using digital story telling provided a platform to the minorities to make their voices heard and let others know that they are not bad students. This type of situation is echoed by Anstey and Bull (2006). In addition, Sylvester and Greenidge (2010) agree by saying “using this multimedia approach in the classroom helps students discover voices, confidence and structure in their writing”.