Digital Storytelling and Creative Expression among Secondary School Learners
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https://doi.org/10.63345/Keywords:
Digital Storytelling, Creative Expression, Secondary Education, Multimodal Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Learning AnalyticsAbstract
Digital storytelling is increasingly positioned as a multimodal learning practice through which learners can combine narrative, imagery, speech, music, and interactive media to communicate ideas and experiences.
This study investigates the relationship between structured digital storytelling and creative expression among secondary school learners while proposing an artificial-intelligence-assisted framework for analysing creativity within student-generated narratives.
The research gap concerns the limited availability of studies that jointly examine narrative creativity, multimodal expression, learner agency, and computational indicators extracted from digital storytelling artefacts rather than relying exclusively on questionnaires or academic achievement scores.
The proposed study conceptualises creative expression through originality, narrative elaboration, expressive flexibility, multimodal coherence, and emotional richness.
Student-created digital stories are treated as multimodal learning artefacts containing textual, visual, audio, and structural signals that can be analysed through educational data-mining and machine-learning techniques.
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