Mobile Digital Storytelling for Promoting Creative Collaborative Learning

Abstract

This paper presents our on-going research efforts related to the use of mobile storytelling to support alternative ways of learning about cultural heritage. In a joint effort to promote creative collaborative learning we are working together with a local museum and an elementary school on actively engaging a group of Swedish school children in mobile digital storytelling. Divided into eight groups of three children each, the pupils took on specific roles and areas of responsibility concerning the collection of story data, such as photographs, script and sound. Before venturing into the final processing and producing of the stories, each group had to negotiate their collected data and agree on what to use for and in their story. That decision had to reflect the opinions and choices for the whole group. The outcomes of these efforts provided us with valuable insights on how mobile digital storytelling can be used in authentic contexts to support creative collaborative learning.