Engaging Children in Digital Storytelling.

Storytelling is an effective educational strategy to empower narrative, creativity, critical and divergent thinking, communicative and literary skills. Storytelling relies on narrative capabilities, such as literary artifices defined by the Italian writer Gianni Rodari in his masterpiece “Grammar of Fantasy” to teach children how to create stories. While narratives and principles for empowering storytelling skills are widely explored, educators and children are rarely supported in applying these theories by technological tools. To encourage children to improve their creativity, we proposed Novelette, a digital learning environment to support Rodari-style storytelling.