To me, that’s personalized learning—when a person sees and recognizes in another person (or in him- or herself) what’s needed to keep learning and growing. Personalized learning occurs when a teacher and a learner know and respect each other enough to interact in meaningful ways, and when a learner begins to know herself well enough to know the next step she should take to master a new skill, or the next step on her path to becoming who she wants to be.
Although this may not be obvious at first, stories pervade every content area.
To make the tool more accessible, students can record narration over the telephone if they do not have a computer microphone.
Because of the nature of a digital story, students move beyond simple memorization to synthesizing ideas and rearticulating them in their own words.
Stories are a part of human nature. They are how we construct understanding and make sense of the world. The way stories are created, told, and consumed is evolving, though, reflecting the changes in the modern world.