Excerpted from Jason's new book, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity...
Revelation #1: I know only one thing about the technology that awaits us in the future: we will find ways to tell stories with it.
Once upon a time… long ago, during the early, dark days of the Digital Age (circa 1980), when the Internet was a secret information club for government officials, icons were religious symbols and iPods were something peas came in, the early adopters of digital technology used the crude tools of their day to create what we now recognize as “digital stories.”
Digital stories are simply the latest manifestation of one of humankind’s oldest activities: storytelling. As we are continually swept away by the latest wave of leading edge innovation, it’s reassuring to know that some things don’t change. From the age of prehistoric cave dwellers to the age of post-modern computer digitalists, our need to tell stories is one of those things.
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