Digital Storytelling in Early Childhood Education: Why and How?

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 290 - 307, 31.12.2025

Hatice Büşra Yılmaz Tam , İlkay Ulutaş

https://doi.org/10.51725/etad.1697350

Abstract

This review study aims to examine the role of digital storytelling in early childhood education. Digital storytelling is a technique that combines traditional storytelling with digital technologies to provide children with effective, interactive and creative learning experiences. This technique allows teachers to produce content with various multimedia tools and support children's cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development. Research in the literature shows that digital storytelling increases children's attention, concretises learning, supports child engagement and improves their expressive skills. It also contributes to the development of skills such as collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. In this context, preschool teachers can evaluate digital storytelling as one of the contemporary teaching methods in early childhood education and make innovative contributions to their practices. They can benefit from artificial intelligence tools and children's narratives while developing digital stories.

Keywords

early childhood, , digital storytelling , preschool teacher

Erken Çocukluk Eğitiminde Dijital Hikâye Anlatımı: Neden ve Nasıl?

Abstract

Bu derleme çalışması, dijital hikâye anlatımının erken çocukluk eğitimindeki rolünü incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Dijital hikâye anlatımı, geleneksel hikâye anlatımını dijital teknolojilerle birleştirerek çocuklara etkili, etkileşimli ve yaratıcı öğrenme deneyimleri sunan bir tekniktir. Bu teknik, öğretmenlerin çeşitli multimedya araçlarıyla içerik üretmelerine ve çocukların bilişsel, dilsel, sosyal ve duygusal gelişimlerini desteklemelerine olanak tanımaktadır. Literatürdeki araştırmalar, dijital hikâye anlatımının çocukların dikkatini artırdığı, öğrenmeyi somutlaştırdığı, çocuk katılımını desteklediği ve ifade becerilerini geliştirdiğini göstermektedir. Bu bağlamda, okul öncesi öğretmenleri dijital hikâye anlatımını, erken çocukluk eğitiminde çağdaş öğretim yöntemlerinden biri olarak değerlendirirek ve uygulamalarına yenilikçi katkılar sunabilirler. Dijital hikâye geliştirirken çocukların ilgilerinden ve anlatılarından faydalanabilirler.

Keywords

erken çocukluk dönemi , dijital hikaye anlatımı , okul öncesi öğretmeni

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