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“We can learn a lot from children's infatuation with cardboard boxes. It shows us how much they want to shape and construct new things, how they long for the freedom to create."
The child will eventually outgrow the giraffe or the truck (that came in the cardboard box) because those toys can be only one thing -- but the box is timeless.”
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"What if we leverage our students' innate curiosity and desire to create new objects and apply it to how we choose apps for mobile devices? Rather than trying to find "an app for that," what if we seek out the empty cardboard boxes and then empower our students to maximize their potential?"
- Holland, Beth. "Cardboard Box Tools." Edutopia. 30 June 2014. Web. 02 July 2014.
"Given the potential for creation and exploration, (there are) technologies that provide students with a platform for exploration and knowledge construction. The challenge is to seek out the empty and timeless tools, to find the apps that give students the most options for how they demonstrate their learning."
"In other words, we need to let the tools become the box."
The process of using multiple apps in conjunction with one another to complete a final task or project.
- Definition by Greg Kulowiec
"Just don't get into thinking that all books are equal. Just like the outcast computers that come our way, quality really is better than quantity!"
- Debbie Miller, Reading With Meaning
"Technology can and should change the game, enrich or challenge the learning; if it doesn't, there is no point in adding it to the mix."
- Stephanie Harvey & Ann Goudvis from Connecting Comprehension & Technology
Digital storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Throughout history, storytelling has been used to share knowledge, wisdom, and values. Stories have taken many different forms. Stories have been adapted to each successive medium that has emerged, from the circle of the campfire to the silver screen, and now the computer screen.
(Digital Storytelling Association, 2011, para. 1)
