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Spinning yarns around the digital fire: storytelling and dialogue among youth on the Internet.

This article explores the importance of dialogue, storytelling and collaboration in children's learning, followed by examples from message boards, webblogs, and instant messaging software (IM) that support learning through storytelling. Children's verbal and iconic literacy, as well as digital fluency is investigated along with peer collaboration and empowering children's voices through Internet technologies.

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Storytelling and dialogue are a part of every child's life. From bedtime chronicles exploring the misadventures of fantastical creatures to the beginning mumblings of a toddler trying to explain his/her day, storytelling introduces children to the ...

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