Thanks to Stephanie West Allen’s posting on the Working Stories list, I learned of what may just be the ultimate example of storytelling stealth in the classroom. In fact, the narrative is so blatant that it’s not really stealthy at all. The students are immersed in the narrative from Day 1.
This teaching method enlightens my quest for buy-in from my students about storytelling, which Rachel Hedman later commented on.
From NPR’s story on this ultimate example:
“This is a game in which the students are literally immersed in a story. And they take on the role of a character,” he explains. “So all of the reading material, all of the content, all of the examinations and homework, if you will, are built inside the engine of the game.”
. . .“I believe we are the first ones to fully emerge students in a narrative story and treat the whole course as a game,” Sarbaum says.