Introduction

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In this decade, information technology has seamlessly integrated into every social aspect especially in education. Information technology is an umbrella term for everything and anything that is a programe, software, cloud tools connected to an electronic gadget/server which eases our workloads and connects us to different parts of the world. It is even more important that we provide the opportunity for our children in the primary education to immersed themselves in information technology. However, our situation here in Sabah is unique as we still have basic amenities challenges i.e. the lack of electricity or incomplete facility thus increases the teachers challenge in trying to create that opportunity for our primary school children. Despite that, it is important for teachers to be "updated" with information technology and to bring that knowledge into the classroom even with the said challenges. Let's try to avoid a misplaced of identity of our primary school children becoming the 2nd wave of digital immigrants within the digital native generation.

Digital natives learning styles.
Learning is the 22nd century has become wired seamlessly into the World Wide Web. This infograph succinctly explains our learners.

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What is Digital Story Telling?
Digital story telling is a method of using computer supported tools to tell stories in a modern manner. Digital story telling allows the creator to combine different media to stimulate the listeners/users different senses - mainly visual and audio and maybe in a minor way - touch. The video below splendidly explains this tool to help our learners.

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