Teacher Opinions on The Usability of Digital Stories in Pre-School Values Education

Abstract

In this study, teacher opinions were taken about the availability of digital storytelling in preschool values education. 7 pre-school teachers participated in the study, which was a phenomenology from qualitative research patterns. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used as a data collection tool. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed by content analysis method. At the end of the analysis the themes such as "Supportive material effect of digital storytelling", "Disadvantages in the use of digital storytelling", "Comparison of digital storytelling with traditional education" were obtained. In addition results such as “digital storytelling contributes positively to preschoolers gaining values”, “students are interested in the fact that digital stories are audio and video compared to traditional education”, “inability to use materials in case of lack of technological devices necessary for the preparation and presentation of materials” were reached.