@article{article_673092, title={Learning to Create Educational Digital Stories: Pre-School Prospective Teachers’ Flipped Classroom Experiences}, journal={Çukurova Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={49}, pages={969–994}, year={2020}, DOI={10.14812/cuefd.673092}, author={Dogusoy, Berrin}, keywords={flipped classroom, digital storytelling, prospective teacher, Pre-school}, abstract={This qualitative case study aims to explore pre-school prospective teachers’ flipped classroom experiences while creating digital stories collaboratively. 70 pre-school prospective teachers who enrolled to the Basic Information and Communication Technology course participated in the study. The design of flipped classroom sessions includes pre-recorded lectures and in-class group activities on digital storytelling. Data was collected through demographic and open-ended questionnaires as well as focus group interview in 2018-2019 Spring Semester. The prospective teachers reported quite an experience with their flipped classroom approach including digital storytelling. They intend to use flipped classroom in different subject areas. Prospective teachers explained this experience is considered as unique and challenging. According to prospective teachers this experience had been considered as unique and challenging as they faced with both an innovative teaching approach and the requirement of creating educational digital stories. A key finding was that although flipped classroom itself is a distinctive and challenging process, prospective teachers have shown a high degree of satisfaction towards flipped classroom. Even though they struggled during digital story creation process which is a novel process for them, the flipped classroom design might enhance the learning experience. Moreover, they had positive experience about technology use in this experience and preschool age. In their future profession, they would use not only the technological applications and tools they encountered but also flipped classroom.}, number={2}, publisher={Cukurova University}