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The Graduate School of Education (GSE) and NYSCAS, Touro’s undergrad division, recently teamed up to host a digital storytelling workshop! The interactive event brought together education graduate students and biology undergraduate students for a hands-on exercise where they learned to design a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education unit for a 5th or 6th grade middle school science class. GSE Professor Suzanne Poole Patzelt says, “Our workshop was developed based on the idea that using digital storytelling alongside puppets and dolls in teaching and learning science/STEM can be transformative. We had Touro students participate in a range of activities to challenge their current understanding of what science is, how science can be taught, and who can be considered a ‘science person.’ A core component of this digital storytelling work is the storyteller. This individual can be human or non-human and can represent anyone from a family member to a historical figure in science. Researchers suggest that puppets/dolls can be utilized to cross ethical scientific boundaries and prompt discussions that lead to the development of scientific communication skills. So, we created this workshop in response to that research.” In the first session of the workshop series, students began the process of storyboarding to identify their story, how their complex science content will be organized within their story, how this content aligns with current science teaching standards, as well as who their storyteller (puppet/doll) would be. Two additional virtual sessions are planned in March and April, with a final in-person workshop slated for May, where participants will finalize their digital stories. Other workshop presenters included GSE Professor Timothy Bellavia (pictured) and NYSCAS Biology Chair and Professor Brian Chiswell.

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