Slides to support a panel conversation held at ISTE 2016 by Amanda Armstrong and Gail Lovely

1. Connecting New
Technologies With
Storytelling in Early
Childhood
AMANDA ARMSTRONG – ARMSTRONG.AMANDA@ICLOUD.COM
@AARMSTRONG_CD
GAIL LOVELY – GAILLOVELY@SUDDENLYITCLICKS.COM
@GLOVELY

2. What are Our Stories?

3. The Sum is Greater than its Parts
https://padlet.com/glovely/ISTEPanel

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5. Pedagogy
The
Child
Culturally
responsive
teaching (Gay,
2010)
Culturally
relevant
pedagogy
(Ladson-
Billings, 1995)
Anti-bias
education
(Derman-
Sparks, 2010)
CRP
Academic Achievement
Cultural Competence
Social Justice
CRT: “…using the cultural
knowledge, prior
experiences, frames of
reference, and
performance styles of
ethnically diverse
students to make learning
encounters more relevant
to and effective for them
(p. 31)”.
ABE: Each child will
(1) demonstrate self-awareness,
confident, family pride, and
positive social identities
(2) express comfort and joy with
human diversity; … and deep,
caring human connections;
(3) increasingly recognize,
describe, & understand
unfairness and that unfairness
hurts;
(4) demonstrate empowerment
and the skills to act, with
others or alone, against
prejudice and/or
discriminatory actions
Be curious about the child.

6. Story.

7. Story.

8. Story.

9. Story.

10. Technology and Storytelling - Research
Using video
◦ Students to create relevant stories to their own lives making tasks
more fun and students more focused (Maier & Fisher, 2006-2007)
Programming
◦ Introduce concepts of self-expression (Portelance, Strawhacker, &
Bers, 2015)
Using different tools
◦ Developing children’s media literacy (Scheibe & Rogow, 2012)

11. Progression of Storytelling

12. Performance
Limited
Audience

13. Paper
• Limited Audience
• No support for
other modalities

14. Story
Voice
Image
Text
Sound
• Enhanced
Audience
• Build on Strengths
• Support for
Weaknesses
Now, Digital

15. Audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVs71CBX7J8

16. Storytelling Progression
Formats
Audience
Student Control and Agency

17. Let’s Look at Tools.

18. Let the Pictures do the Talking
iOS: Chatterpix Kids (free)
Web: Blabberize (free)
http://blabberize.com/

19. Illustration

20. Storybird – http://Storybird.com (Web, free)

21. Puppet Pals – iOS App

22. Beebot

23. Book Creator – iOS, Android and Windows apps

24. Easy Blogger Jr. – iOS App

25. Storytelling
in the Digital
Age…
AMPLIFYING STUDENT VOICE,
AUDIENCE AND INDEPENDENCE

27. Resources will be located at:
http://SuddenlyitClicks.com
Thank
you!

28. References
Derman-Sparks, L. & Olsen Edwards, J. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves.
Washington, DC: NAEYC.
Gay, G. (2010). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers
College.
Ladson-Billings, G. (1995). But that’s just good teaching! The case for culturally relevant pedagogy.
Theory into Practice, 34(3), 159-165.
Maier, B. R. & Fisher, M. (2006-2007). Strategies for digital storytelling via tabletop video: Building
decision making skills in middle school students in marginalized communities. Journal of Educational
Technology Systems, 35(2), 175-192.
Portelance, D. J., Strawhacker, A. L. & Bers, M. (2015). Constructing the ScratchJr programming
language in the early childhood classroom. International Journal of Technology and Design Education,
1-16.
Scheibe, C., & Rogow, F. (2012). The teacher's guide to media literacy: Critical thinking in a multimedia
world. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin.