Digital storytelling: application of an innovative methodology for the training of future teachers

In the current society it is essential to design training and educational paths with a view to sustainable development, also considering the digital element. UNESCO (2012) has underlined the importance of using technologies for the professional promotion of more competent future teachers. Digital storytelling (DST) fits into this context, a methodology that uses narration as the main means to explain and give voice to the events of reality, combining traditional narrative writing techniques with multimedia elements, aimed at the production of short digital videos. In this direction, the laboratory experience of Environmental Education will be presented, conducted within the Degree course in Primary Education Sciences of the University of Bari, in which the DST methodology was applied to involve students in the discovery of their territory, through the production of shared digital narratives.