Storytelling tool

Challenge and selection

As a school teacher in my world history subject I always try to make my students understand the  context that is being exposed to them and also the message that is transmitted to them, so that  they learn and apply it in their personal lives, for this I use techniques of design thinking to create  courses that appeal to my students and can capture their full attention. For this I chose the  technique of Storytelling, as a teacher I have realized that, like gamification, it is not a strategy  only to be used in marketing, since, being an effective communication tool, it can be used to teach  knowledge and values, awakening the interest and motivation of our students in those subjects  where their performance is not the best.

Request

With the help of this tool, I developed different role-playing games for specific events described in  the universal history guide and created stories to be read and applied in the game. The idea was  very good, my students had a lot of fun while observing and understanding the situations that  were developing, the emotional connection with the character, the concerns, the struggles, it  allowed them to put their own emotions into practice, and understand what attitudes were  correct and which were not.

There is a game of soldiers that I used as an example, in which a similarity can be established with  the wars produced in the twentieth century "Call of Duty", which I used to apply about the Second  World War using the narration technique with my students. Before telling a story, we must know  who we are going to tell it to, as they are adolescent students, I must know what they are like,  what they are interested in, what they feel, how they think, how they behave, in such a way that I  can change any incorrect attitude in him. Then I explained to them what the story that is going to  develop is about, who participates, the place, etc. Different situations were established in which  the students participated actively, exchanging dialogue and asking questions when they did not  understand some fact that was presented. Try to allow my students to take on different roles,  even opposite characters so that they can put themselves in their shoes and develop what they  would have done in the character's shoes. This whole process lasted about a month, for which  once the game is over it is important that at the end the students reflect on the process and  receive opinions from others. How has the task been developed? What have they learned? What  mistakes have they made? This will develop their capacity for self-criticism and help them improve  in the future. The result I was able to verify that the vast majority understood the message of each  situation and wrote it when the weekly exams were carried out. This whole process lasted about a  month, for which once the game is over it is important that at the end the students reflect on the  process and receive opinions from others. How has the task been developed? What have they  learned? What mistakes have they made? This will develop their capacity for self-criticism and  help them improve in the future. The result I was able to verify that the vast majority understood  the message of each situation and wrote it when the weekly exams were carried out. This whole  process lasted about a month, for which once the game is over it is important that at the end the  students reflect on the process and receive opinions from others. How has the task been

developed? What have they learned? What mistakes have they made? This will develop their  capacity for self-criticism and help them improve in the future. The result I was able to verify that  the vast majority understood the message of each situation and wrote it when the weekly exams  were carried out.

Perspective and focus

I have learned that this tool can be incredibly useful not only in schools, but can also be extended  to all of education. What I am looking for is that my students can identify with the characters and  develop their own point of view before the development of the story, as well as having alternative  solutions to certain problems. Thanks to this technique I have been able to notice the parts in  which my students made it difficult for them to understand, some due to their own fears of  socializing with other students, others were carried away by play (fun) more than by learning, but I  plan to improve this technique much more to remedy that, as I have seen a lot of interest from  most of the students.

