Kids Create Multimedia Stories at School. An “Authentic” Educational Value?

none2In this paper we investigate the potential of digital storytelling in the context of formal education (i.e. as classroom activity) for fostering a number of benefits going beyond the acquaintance with technology and computer mediated communication. Our discussion is based on a four-year experience with digital storytelling in Italian classes of all school grades (including pre-school),involving thousands of students, and on the data coming from surveys as well as direct interviews to almost 100 teachers.mixedNicoletta Di Blas; Luca FerrariNicoletta Di Blas; Luca Ferrar