Digi-Tell: Using Technology for Authentic Learning

Abstract

This chapter builds on the discussion around the tenets of Learner as Central and Communities of Collaboration for pre-service teacher literacy education through community-based after-school learning clubs. This chapter introduces the tenet of information and communication technology (ICT) for learning to the authentic learning context provided through community-based after-school learning clubs. The discussion in this chapter will explore how the tenets of personalising learning are realised in the teacher education context through the delivery of Digi-Tell, a digital storytelling programme for children in the middle and upper years of primary education. In a core unit in their course, pre-service teachers plan, implement and evaluate a literacy programme designed to use ICT in authentic ways as part of an explicit literacy teaching focus. These descriptions provide insight into authentic contexts for effective literacy teaching and learning essential for personalising learning in teacher education.