Digital story applications to develop the basic life skills in life study course

The main purpose of this research is to determine the effect of digital storytelling applications used in the Life Studies course on the development of students' self-management skills, which is one of the basic life skills. The mixed method, in which quantitative and qualitative methods are used together, was used in the research. In this direction, the research was carried out with an embedded experimental design, which is one of the mixed methods. The study group of the research consists of primary school 3rd grade students. As a data collection tool, besides the "self-management skills scale for primary school students" developed by the researcher, observations, interviews, diaries and student products were used. At the end of the single-group quasi-experimental process, it was statistically determined that the digital storytelling applications used in the Life Studies course had a positive effect on the development of students' self-management skills. However, as a result of the analysis of the qualitative data, it was found that the students used self-management skills during digital storytelling practices.. In addition, as a result of the interviews with the classroom teacher and the students, it was concluded that digital storytelling applications support the active learning of the students, the lessons are fun, and digital storytelling can be used in other lessons. In addition, it can be said that digital storytelling applications are time-consuming and labor-intensive, difficulties in technical use and problems such as not being able to complete the story on time. Based on the results of the research, suggestions were made for the use of digital storytelling applications at different grade levels and in the development of different skill areas.