The Digital Storytelling Adventures of the Teacher Candidates

Abstract

The digital stories enable the students to understand the nature of science easier by means of technology. In this context, it is essential that there are the teachers, who are able to educate the creative thinking individuals that are dominant to the scientific processes and to offer any learning environments in which qualified education can be provided to their students. For this purpose, the science teacher candidates are required to create digital stories on the science subjects and achievements of 3rd and 4th grades by using the technology. An interview form designed by the researchers was prepared to determine the opinions of the teacher candidates about their experience in digital story preparation and the use of digital story in science teaching. With this interview form, the data of the researchers was collected by taking the voice record of the teacher candidates. The interviews were solved by descriptive analysis technique. As a result, the teacher candidates stated that the digital stories should be included in the science lessons, that the digital stories paid attention to the subject, and were fun and avocatory, and that permanent learning was provided. The teacher candidates stated that they would benefit from the digital stories in their professional lives, that the digital stories would be effective in science teaching, and that the teacher candidates notices the importance of using the technology in the science courses in these applications.