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The focus of this chapter is to discuss how recording videos and generating digital stories promote the learning of science from the perspective of students. To do so, we have examined 12 group interviews of 44 Finnish 5th grade students who participated in our teaching experiment in autumn 2013. The results indicated that recording and generating digital stories added value to the learning process in five ways.
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Penttilä, J., Kallunki, V., Ojalainen, J. (2014). Science through the Camera Lens. In: Niemi, H., Multisilta, J., Lipponen, L., Vivitsou, M. (eds) Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-749-0_5
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