Engaging College Students On A Community Engagement With High School Students With Disabilities

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James Lawler
Anthony Joseph
Stuti Narula

Keywords

Community Engagement, Digital Storytelling, High School Students with Disabilities, Information Systems Curriculum, Service-Learning

Abstract

Community engagement is a common course in college curricula of computer science and information systems. In this study, the authors analyze the benefits of digital storytelling, in a course engaging college students with high school students with disabilities. The authors discover that a project of storytelling progressively enables high engagement of the students, in importance, performance, and satisfaction. The authors also discover that the project enables progressively high impact in the advocacy of these students for individuals with disabilities, in self-efficacy and sociality. The study will benefit instructors in any discipline evaluating digital storytelling technology as a service-learning tool.

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