Cat explained the rationale behind the challenge - «Designing a digital product or service was a great way for our girls to demonstrate a range of transferable skills including
creativity, teamwork,
presentation skills and financial planning, and the activity also encouraged them to think
about the impact of technology on their daily lives and how they can use it to their advantage.»
Presentations at the NCTE Conference were
about narrative as a way of fostering student engagement and motivation, narrative as a way to understand other people's cultures or environments, narrative as a way to create student voice, narrative as a spur to innovative thinking, narrative as a way to learn any academic discipline, narrative as a form of persuasion, narrative as a way to create personal meaning and new knowledge, narrative as an impetus for social change, narrative as a way to inspire
creativity, narrative as the beginning of inquiry, narrative as an expression of imagination, narrative as a reflection on one's own process of learning, and narrative as the basis of collaboration among those with multiple perspectives.