Story mapping appealed to me as a creative way to exercise critical thinking and problem solving skills. How to ‘sneak in the fun’ is a challenge for teachers at every level of education. When students are allowed to explore problems from different angles and bring their own unique perspective into the process the learning opportunity increases with each added idea vs. just right or wrong question and response.
“The Reggio Emilia approach has evolved from the belief that children are endowed with enormous potential, full of the desire and ability to construct their own knowledge. Creativity and learning are considered parts of the same process. Children create their own knowledge through exploration.” TES Newspaper on 20 September, 1996Wendy Holland
And the value of exchange isn’t limited to student to student or classroom interactions. Ohler supports this in stating “…many situations might require us to learn from those whom we never expected to be our teachers. (pg 93)
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