The digital revolution in a sentence: Finally everyone gets to tell their own story in their own way on the great stage of the Internet...

Excerpted from Jason's new book, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity...

Revelation #4: The digital revolution in a sentence: Finally everyone gets to tell their own story in their own way on the great stage of the Internet.

In fact, if I had to summarize the Digital Age in a sentence it would be this: finally everyone gets to tell their own story in their own way. Digital cameras, painting programs, music keyboards and word processors – as well as all those technologies just around the corner that we can’t even imagine right now – give us new ways to personalize the methods of self-expression. We get to explore new communication forms with relative impunity because we can try out an idea and then change our minds, something that’s hard to do using a typewriter or a paintbrush. And thanks to the Internet, we have an international stage for the stories we tell.