Narration
Sensemaking
Principle in Action
While You Dream is a digital children’s book that uses audio narration alongside illustrations, rather than relying on text alone, to support deeper learning. By combining pictures with spoken words, the book helps children connect words, images, and sounds and engage more fully with the story, reducing the cognitive load that can come from reading text while viewing visuals. This approach makes the storytelling experience more immersive and memorable.
While You Dream
Words, images, and sounds are connected into one experience
Words, images, and sounds are connected into one experience
Discuss in your team
How can you effectively combine audio narration with visual elements to explain key concepts?
What strategies can you use to ensure the narration is clear, concise, and directly relevant to the visuals?
How will you design the timing and pacing of narration to match the learner’s engagement with the visuals?
Principle Definition
Use audio and visuals together rather than just visuals or just written words alone to foster deeper learning. People learn more deeply from pictures and spoken words than from pictures and printed words alone. Learners may find their attention divided when presented with written text and competing visuals simultaneously.
Narration
Sensemaking
Principle Definition
Use audio and visuals together rather than just visuals or just written words alone to foster deeper learning. People learn more deeply from pictures and spoken words than from pictures and printed words alone. Learners may find their attention divided when presented with written text and competing visuals simultaneously.
Principle in Action
While You Dream
While You Dream is a digital children’s book that uses audio narration alongside illustrations, rather than relying on text alone, to support deeper learning. By combining pictures with spoken words, the book helps children connect words, images, and sounds and engage more fully with the story, reducing the cognitive load that can come from reading text while viewing visuals. This approach makes the storytelling experience more immersive and memorable.
Words, images, and sounds are connected into one experience
Discuss in your team
How can you effectively combine audio narration with visual elements to explain key concepts?
What strategies can you use to ensure the narration is clear, concise, and directly relevant to the visuals?
How will you design the timing and pacing of narration to match the learner’s engagement with the visuals?
