Teaching the iGeneration- ch. 3

     There are many different ways to be creative with the new advances in technology.  The problem with this is that schools need to be prepared and equipped to teach students how to use these tools.  One new program to use in the classroom in digital storytelling.  Digital stories use images, music, narrative, and voice to bring characters and situations and ideas to life.  Learning to create different infuential multimedia expressions in not only essential, but its exciting for them and this will pay off for teachers by having students excited and willingly involved in the assignment.  It is important to scaffold learning by showing the students and letting them practice and work with each aspect and then letting them put all of these tools together to create a project.  It is important to set standards and structure with these projects but also let the students be creative in their work.  It is important as a teacher to make sure with a project like this there is time and support for students to do the work they need to for mastering new skills and content.  Students are surrounded by visual messages all day long and so they need to be taught how to take images and video to create their own ways for communication and messaging.