Traditional storytelling is the oldest educational tool human beings have utilized to past on information to the next generation. At the same time, it is also the most endangered educational tool, as human beings have become reliant on the written word and now the television/Internet to give/pass on information. Lectures are considered dull, boring engagements students loath to participate in -- why? Because no one knows how to tell a story anymore. No one knows how to relay information (to teach) orally. It is a tool that has gone under nourished and replaced by (possibly) lesser things. We have the technology available to revive traditional oral storytelling. We can record storytellers and learn from them, we can record students and turn them into instant storytellers, and we can reach a generation that is disconnected from its past.
The most valuable tools I learned today from Bret were that:
- Storying telling reaches every type of learner: kinestetic, audio, and visual
- When students are engaged with you, they will naturally become engaged with what you are telling (teaching them)
- Story telling improves comprehension and memory
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