Using Digital Storytelling to Promote Critical Thinking among the Millennials

• In Event: MPD - Problem Based Learning (PBL) [FA]

Short Description

Critical thinking is an important part of college experience. Colleges offer courses that aim at helping students to develop critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is the art of conceptualizing, analyzing, reflecting and evaluating with a view to improving a concept (Paul and Elder, 2006). The current generation of students belongs to the Millennial Generation. The millennial generation refers to those born between 1981 and 1999 (Lancaster&Stillman, 2002). This generation has grown up immersed in technology. To develop creative and critical thinking skills a digital storytelling course was designed for freshmen in a mid western university in the United States of America. This research would report on experiences in the transition course designed to help freshmen develop critical and creative thinking skills using digital storytelling as a tool.

Author

• Albert Akyeampong, Ohio Northern University