Digital Literacy Learning In Higher Education Through Digital Storytelling Approach

TLDR

Digital literacy skills are increasingly essential for effective communication and expression in digital media, prompting worldwide educational sectors to integrate them into curricula, with digital storytelling emerging as a promising classroom activity to engage and motivate students. The study investigates the effectiveness of digital storytelling in enhancing digital literacy by interviewing and analyzing artifacts from three purposively sampled students in a multimedia course. The study used interviews and artifact analysis of three purposively sampled students in a multimedia course. The three students improved in digital competence, usage, and transformation, regardless of prior knowledge or digital literacy levels.

Abstract

It is necessary to develop digital literacy skills with which students can communicate and express their ideas effectively using digital media. The educational sectors around the world are beginning to incorporate digital literacy into the curriculum. Digital storytelling, one of the possible classroom activities, is an approach which may help engage and motivate students to learn digital literacy skills. To investigate this approach, the present small-scale study employs the methods including interviewing and analysing the artefacts of three students selected from a purposive sample on a multimedia course. The findings indicate that the three students have improved in terms of three aspects of digital literacy skills, namely, digital competence, digital usage and digital transformation regardless of their prior knowledge and levels of digital literacy.