The Use of Computer-aided Story in Education: Literature Review

Abstract

Storytelling method has become one of the most commonly used method in all levels and fields of the education. The main reason of this situation is that stories have entertaining side. Besides, stories improve individuals' problem-solving skills, their imagination and support their creativity, and affect their language skills, social development positively. With the rapid developments in technology, a new concept named "Digital Story" has emerged. Digital storytelling is defined as the process of presentation of  audio, images, graphics, motion graphics, images, music and text in a interactive digital media. Dijital storytelling supports the students to be story teller/author by using virtual environments. Thus, student, who has written a story, can perform more permanent learning with cognitive activities like synthesis and evaluation. With this potential, dijital story concept should be seen as a field that have a great importance. The aim of this research is to evaluate the studies that use computer-aided storytelling method. In this study, document review method was used. Document review method, was to perform the analysis of written materials containing information on the researched cases. In accordance with this purpose,  studies that carried out in last seven years (2007-2014) have been found using electronic databases. In this research 21 study has been examined. At this stage, we have selected studies that have practices using digital storytelling method. This determined as a main criteria. In this research we have tried to draw a picture that shows situation, importance and success of the digital storytelling in education using methods, technology, students outcomes of the studies. The study will support/guide trainers who want to use digital storytelling methods with practical examples encountered in the literature.