Programming and epic-based digital storytelling using scratch

Abstract

Storytelling is a powerful tool to impart traditional and cultural values to children. There is a decline in the legacy of oral storytelling tradition followed by our ancestors. Digital storytelling has emerged as the successor and the modern storytelling method follows similar strategies of classical storytelling. Digital storytelling has started its evolution in teaching and learning process and emerged as the best tool to engage teachers and their students. Middle school students use various digital storytelling environments to learn a programming language. In this paper, epic-based digital storytelling (EBDS) pedagogy using scratch to learn a programming language is discussed. The various aspects of using EBDS in education are given in the paper.