FROM ORALITY TO(NEURO)STORYTELLING: NARRATIVE AND EMOTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

If educating is narrating (Demetrio, 2012), in order to give space to myth, dream, story, there is a need for words and narratives, memory and imagination (Cambi, Pinto Minerva, 2023), even at the time of the crisis of narration (Han, 2024) and faced with the granularity of contents in the age of fragmentation (Roncaglia, 2018). Multimedia and plurality of integrated languages (Rivoltella, 2012) are transforming the textual forms and supports through which we approach knowledge. In particular, digital storytelling, by manipulating multiple codes and formats of oral, written and visual narration, represents a way to promote media literacy and the development of transversal skills. The reflection will involve the students of the Teaching of Reading and Writing course of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, through a process of co-construction of operational proposals on narration and storytelling, on the implications of the neuroscience-artificial intelligence combination, on the possibilities and risks of their applications in the educational field.