Utilizing digital storytelling as a tool for teaching literature through constructivist learning theory

Utilization of new technologies (ICT) and digital media has been a priority in recent years in the design and the implementation of educational programs around the world. The new educational reality, imposed by the pandemic, relies heavily on the replacement of in-person learning with distance learning, which is based on the use of digital tools and new technologies. The fact that distance learning has been massively and rapidly imposed due to the circumstances resulting from the pandemic and has been transformed from a supplementary to the main means of the educational procedure, has also highlighted the need for its tools to be linked to learning theories and to be extended to non-formal forms of education. Digital storytelling, in particular, that during the last years has been used as a means to all levels of formal and non-formal education, can be proved equally useful and productive in distance learning as well. This article presents a lesson plan for the literature course created in a secondary school in Greece. During the teaching, it was explored whether digital storytelling can provide a quality educational tool in which you can find a field for modern constructive–collaborative learning theories, in both formal and non-formal forms of education.