Latino/a Students and the Power of Digital Storytelling

This paper discusses the pedagogical and methodological relevance of digital storytelling for Latino/a education. Challenges to deficit based approaches of Latino/a schooling support the development of culturally relevant teaching practices that include the funds of knowledge of Latino/a families. We provide an analysis of a digital storytelling workshop and the stories of a Latino high school student and a Latina college student in order to illustrate the cultural relevance of media technology in the education of Latino/a youth. We argue that a digital storytelling praxis can be used as a pedagogical tool to research and transform the educational lives of Latino/a students.