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The Use of Digital Storytelling in a Secondary School Course of Economics

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Digital storytelling is one of the new teaching methods that seeks to raise students’ interest in studying and explain to them professional topics in an understandable way. This method is especially suitable for older high school students who can create their own digital stories. The sample survey shows that students prefer a combination of frontal teaching with the method of digital storytelling, which they perceive as a motivational or fixative tool in education.

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This article is supported by the SPEV project 2022, run at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

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  2. Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, 500 03, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

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Nunvářová, J., Poulová, P. (2022). The Use of Digital Storytelling in a Secondary School Course of Economics. In: Li, R.C., Cheung, S.K.S., Ng, P.H.F., Wong, LP., Wang, F.L. (eds) Blended Learning: Engaging Students in the New Normal Era. ICBL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13357. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08939-8_29

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