Digital Storyboards: Integrating Tangible Computing with Language Arts in Elementary Classrooms

• In Event: RTD- Learning Through Tangible Computing

Short Description

Teacher education students teamed up with elementary teachers in 8 schools from 5 local districts to teach a 10-week curriculum wherein 4th graders engaged in storytelling, wiring, coding, designing and developing “Digital Storyboards.” Students designed storyboards with lights, sound, and movement to retell literature they had read. Pre/Post results demonstrated statistically significant gains with large effect sizes on students’ confidence for, interest in, perceived utility, social value and perceptions of coding.

Authors

• Contributor: Peter Jacob Rich, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Scott Bartholomew, Purdue University

• Contributor: Jessica Marie Yauney, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Steve Shumway, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Emmerson Elya, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Katie Wolfley, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Veronica Wuthrich, Brigham Young University