What does story telling tell us about ourselves and who we are.

In my presentation, on Technology in EC, that I recently delivered to the leadership teams in GoodStart Early Childhood Services at CSU Wagga, I used this short film by Jason Silva to open and focus our thoughts. 

The Power of Story is the early childhood story and I think the story of humanity.


Story builds knowledge, relationships, gives value to how we see, hear, feel, and connect with the world and its people. Stories connect each and every one of us.

In early childhood the power of story is how we build a picture of the knowledge, thoughts and understanding that tell us how young children see the world and their space in it.

The power of this story also builds confidence and strength in the relationship that parents and carers have with their children. It also tells the story of early childhood and how the complexity of knowledge, attitudes and understanding that will enable children to have a successful start to formal school. It complexity of the early childhood story demonstrates that learning happens in every space and intertwined, the narrative unpacks this knowledge and learning process to we can visualise how that understanding manifests itself.

Enjoy. Jason Silva is a remarkable bloke and his ability to articulate complex notions and ways of knowing and being, gives me to believe that he may be the great architect.