Digital storytelling for children key to climate change adaptation

Guest Column: Peter Makwanya

Without undermining the gift of traditional storytelling as a comprehensive and powerful tool, used by the elders to educate children, nurture their listening skills and as a form of recreation — while the children are passive recipients of information, storytelling remains a powerful communication tool for engaging children. With the advent of technological advancement and also that elders who tell the stories now being a rare commodity, coupled with a busy world, it is advisable to integrate the traditional storytelling with the multimedia tools designed to fit in the complex world of new-media technologies.

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