A NEW EDUCATIONAL-DIDACTIC METHODOLOGY FOR PRESCHOOL AGED CHILDREN: THE DIGITAL MULTISENSORY STORYTELLING

Abstract

The learning process can benefit from the support of digital and multisensory components. Literature demonstrates how digital storytelling constitutes an educational and didactic model suitable to support engagement and active learning (O'Byrne et al., 2018). The integration of multisensory stimuli in learning contexts influences the strengthening of information in memory (Matos et al., 2015). Based on scientific evidence, this experimental quantitative research compares traditional storytelling, proposed to a control group, to digital multisensory storytelling, proposed to experimental group. The sample is composed by children between 3 and 4 years old. This study represents the progression of a previous research conducted on children of 5-years-old (Chierichetti & Tombolini, 2023). The aim is to investigate, with digital software EMOJ, the emotions elicited in children by the oral retelling of the story and to evaluate, with a recording protocol, the level of acquisition of information, in both groups. The results shows that the digital multisensory storytelling is linked to a higher ability to recall the story orally and to the implication of greater emotions in retelling phase.