Kindergarten Children as Story Makers: The Effect of the Digital Medium

Fairy Tales exist for centuries and have intrigued educators who have been utilizing their "magical power of affection", especially when teaching young children. In the current paper, story creation is examined with the perspective of the children as authors. A web 2.0 service, Tikatok, which provides several facilities for creating stories in a book-like format, is utilized in order to examine the effect of the digital medium (ICTs) in the story creation process by the children. Eight Kindergarten students divided into four pairs, worked in different settings. The results show an impressive effect of the computer on children's motivation, as well as several qualitative aspects of story creation.