"Along with the need to pass on vital cultural, historical, and moral information, there is an innate human need to provide explanations for things that are not understood...The function of storytelling has not changed but the means by which storytelling takes place has." (Anderson 2010)

In addition to explaining the unexplainable, storytelling supports cognitive AND affective learning by...

helping students see the relevance of what they learn in school by drawing personal connections between curricula and real world impact
developing students' literacy, which must be expanded to include the assessment of digital, visual, and media literacies critical to today's 21st century
enhancing retention, comprehension, and internalization (especially with the pairing of visuals with audio or text).
plugging into contemporary participatory culture, in which students share their own experiences and believe their contributions matter; when students create their own multimedia projects, they synthesize, analyze, and evaluate.

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Storytelling in the digital age.pdf