Digital Research

When considering the idea of substituting research papers with digital storytelling, I have a neutral attitude. On the optimistic side, I believe this tactic is a fun and meaningful approach to research; however, negative responses to this method are sure to arise. For example, in a college chemistry classroom students will be expected to know the format for a research paper. Citing sources, properly using the information acquired, and transcribing this information into methodical sequences is very important!!! It is absolutely not useful for national documents and reserach by specific organizations to have digital stories. Digital storytelling on a professional level would definitely cause for a misinterpretation and absence of important information, so I believe teaching students how to right a rudimentary reserach paper is an important content standard. However, tt wouldn't hurt to ocassionaly alter the strict rules of a research paper into a fun digital project! Perhaps, digital storytelling could be a side- assignment to the research paper. For example, create a digital story in effort to brainstorm a topic or to present the research paper to the class as a whole.