Storytelling is something much more than telling a story. This is what I thought storytelling was and that was the end of that. However, I read an article called The Power of Storytelling. At first, I thought this article was just going to talk about the ways stories can impact education for the better by reading and discussing books with students. Am I still right? Yes, but there is so much more to storytelling than it is just a story and then we talk about it. The way that I look at storytelling now has made me realize that all of the memories, all of the photos from posts are more than just memories, just pictures, and just posts.
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As I started to read more into the article, I realized that storytelling happens every day. When we talk about a favorite memory, we are telling a story. When we post about an event that happened that day, we are still telling a story. The article talked about even though we post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so many other sites, we are still storytelling, but it is shorter and on our time. The picture can share what a person was doing for the day or an event they attended. When someone posts a picture, we can look at our feeds anytime of day to view that story and read the post that goes along with it.
As educators, we read stories to our students all the time. Now more than ever, technology can be used to create stories with students. For example, students can post a picture of an event or their family on SeeSaw. Students and teachers can then read the post and look at the pictures to view the students’ stories. Students and teachers can comment and like the post, which not only incorporates storytelling from a student perspective, but it also includes technology. I have mentioned this time and time again...technology is not going to go anywhere, anytime soon!
At one point I thought storytelling was long and had to include a book of somesort. What I realized is that storytelling happens all the time. We share a memory or a photo. We can tell and show someone in person, or we can type and post a photo online. No matter the memory, the story will never end.
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