EDEC 316: Evaluating a Multiliteracy Experience Report, Semester 1

This report details a student's observation and evaluation of a multiliteracy experience in an early childhood classroom, focusing on digital storytelling. The observation highlights children's engagement with technology, their collaborative efforts in creating storyboards, and the challenges they faced with pronunciation and technical aspects. The report analyzes the teaching strategies employed, such as dividing students into small groups and providing support for technical issues. The evaluation discusses the objective of the experience in building children's multiliteracy learning and meaning-making, referencing Vygotsky's theory of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and the use of scaffolding. It suggests improvements such as speed reading to enhance the reading pace. The report also includes the planning template, observation template, and discusses the objective of the experience in building children’s multiliteracy learning and meaning making and provides at least 2 ways the experience could be extended.

Observation Template
Learning Context Date and Time:
(Where the activity is, indoors or outside): Indoor activity of digital story telling
Observation Interpretation
I did an observation in the
early childhood classroom,
while all the students were
engaged in the storytelling
activities.
Observation: The children
were eagerly waiting for their
English literature teacher.
Most of the students are
super-excited since today is
their activity class and in the
previous session, they have
been taught about tablets
and this is the first time they
have been allowed to use
things like computers and
tablets.
Martha said to Sam: I am so
excited to learn something
new, as in the previous
activity class, miss has
promised us to show
something interesting.
Ronnie said, “then we could
do the same at our home
with our siblings”. Following
this, there was no
conversation between the
students, until they asked to
construct the stories. (Buzz ll
around the classroom), the
teacher divided the early
years' classrooms into four
small groups. Since the class
actually could not decide on
From the observation, we can see, that most of the
children encountered some technical issues while
developing the digital story, but it did not impact
their enthusiasm. It was again found that the
narrators were also facing problems with the
speed of the reading and it can be recommended
that an educator can teach students, speed
reading to teach them about the pace of the
reading. The development of young people has
been theorized by Lev Vygotsky, as a process that
occurs in collaboration between the child and an
adult in the zone of proximal development. A ZPD
is not only applicable in subject-specific areas but
it is an aggregation of the factors that is meeting at
the point of difficulty. Hence teachers need to use
practices that will scaffold the process. Digital
storytelling helps in scaffolding and the focus of
these tasks is to assist cater to the development.

which story to work on, the
teachers asked them to do it
on “the little red riding
hood”. Each of the groups
was asked to design a
storyboard. A conflict could
be seen in group 2 regarding
the portions, each member is
assigned to do.
The educator went and
resolved the issue. The
members allotted for the
narration was reading out the
story one by one. Alex was
having some difficulties in
pronunciation, while he was
reading out the story and the
entire story was read again.
Martha from group 4 had
been practicing the narration
multiple times. Initially, she
was reading quickly, lacking
the rhythm and space, but it
was corrected afterward.
Almost all the groups faced
difficulties while using the
animations in the PowerPoint
presentation. Suresh was the
one to be helping his/her
peers to carefully handle the
computers. Finally, the
narrations were being
recorded one by one as one
from each of the groups read
out their respective sections
aloud. All the children were
clapping with joy with the
successful completion of the
activity.