Evaluating the creative potential of digital storytelling APPs for Primary Education

Abstract

The creative potential of the apps (N=20) oriented to the de-sign of digital storytelling (DST) -directed to users from 6 to 12 years- is evaluated, using the CREAPP K6-12 instrument, composed of 48 indicators related to the 5 dimensions of creativity: flexibility, originality, fluency, product elaboration and problem solving; along with the co-edition and dissemination dimension, linked to collaborative design. After adopting descriptive and multivariate statistical techniques, the results show that 76.6% of these app have great flexibility, 73.4% favors originality, 72.4% presents resources and function-alities endowing them with great fluidity, 68.3% encourages the creation of creative products, 56.5% promotes the resolution of problems, although only 36.3% prevail the co-edition and dissemination of stories in networks. The correlations show that the most flexible apps stimulates originality, fluency, propitiates problem solving and promotes the elaboration of creative products. The index of creative potentiality of the apps is calculated, establishing a competitiveness ranking, which offers keys to the Primary teachers to elaborate didactic proposals that promote creativity through the design of DST.