Digital Storytelling Book Trailers and Literary Competence in Initial Teacher Education
Storytelling and digital skills are core abilities that trainee teachers should be confident in as future educators in primary and secondary classrooms, and therefore both sets of skills should be integrated into formal instruction in initial teacher education courses in higher education. How can technologies and storytelling be combined in the ITE classroom in order to enhance the literary competence and pedagogic insights of our future teachers? What are the pros and possible cons of making a vernacular literacy practice such as digital storytelling central in formal learning? Can the new forms of expression, exploration, cooperation and communication associated with digital storytelling involve relevant areas of learning? This chapter analyses, in the light of these questions, an educational intervention on digital storytelling through the writing of a book 'trailer' designed as an assignment in a module on literary education for the BA in Primary Education at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain, academic year 2012 13) The study shows the contribution and possibilities that digital storytelling brings to initial teacher education, and the impact that it has on the development of literary and technological skills of trainee teachers. 1 With the support of the Secretary for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and the COFUND programme of the Marie Curie Actions of the 7th R&D Framework Programme of the European Union (Beatriu de Pinos 2011 A) 2 This paper is part of two R&D projects financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain for the period 1/1/2012 to 31/12/2014, with an extension until 2015: "School 2.0: Digital literacy practices. Materials, classroom activity and online linguistic resources" (EDU2011 28381; directed by Dr. D. Cassany at the Pompeu Fabra University. Site: https:/sites.google.com/site/ies201x1/home) and "Digital children's literature: production, reader's uses, reception and teaching practices" (EDU201126141; directed by Prof. T. Colomer at The Autonomous University of Barcelona. Site: http:/gretel.cat/en/projectes de recerca/literatura infantil i juvenil digital produccio usos lectors recepcio i practiques docents/#more 3268) We are grateful to the undergraduate students studying for the BA in Primary Education who participated in the activity, and in particular to Aiana and Monica, who recorded themselves working at home while designing the book 'trailer' We are also grateful to Peter Skuce, who has contributed helpful and challenging linguistic revisions of this paper. Matteo Stocchetti 9783631675441 Downloaded from PubFactory at 07/22/2019 09:09:42AM via free access Cristina Aliagas Marin Ana M. Margallo 90