Welcome to a new series of online seminars concerning designs for learning, multimodal representations, re-design and transformative work by the open access journal Designs for Learning.
Hereby we invite you to a seminar focusing on how changing texts and educational media affect the educational landscape, including new demands on educational research.
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Changing Texts
Tim Oates at Cambridge University has been leading an international review of research on textbooks and related materials including a specific focus on Sweden. When he in 2010 started the review of the National Curriculum in England, he found that it would not be possible to interpret other nations’ curricula and performance data without reference to textbooks. This drove home the structural importance of textbooks, particularly in periods of national reform of education. He also noticed an anti-textbook ethos emerging in many nations, and neglect of textbook research. Nowadays, with major digital development in train internationally, and strong impetus for educational improvement, the field is subject to dramatic pressures and shifts in sentiment and control.
Swedish Edtest
Annas Åkerfeldt, who has an interest is learning, teaching and assessment in digital learning environments – including how digital resources challenge our understanding of learning and knowledge, will give a short overview of the Swedish Edtest, the first national testbed for educational technology, focusing on developing supporting material for teachers and companies.
The state of affairs in Denmark – the Subject Portal
In Denmark a massive state effort to digitize teaching has succeeded in transforming the learning material landscape. The recent research in Danish L1 has shown, that teachers still use didactical learning materials (analogue and digital) but mix it with resources. A special version of digital learning resources, the Subject Portal, is much used in Danish classrooms.
Moderator
PhD, Senior professor Staffan Selander, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University.
February 2nd 2023
Museum and school: sites for learning, knowledge representations and recognition
Roger Säljö and Eva Insulander with Staffan Selander
November 10th 2022:
Children creating multimodal texts with digital tools: Kristina Danielsson and Marina Wernholm with Staffan Selander
Designs for learning is a conceptual frame for the understanding of learning as a social practice in different formal, semi-formal and non-formal sites. In this presentation, Kristina Danielsson and Marina Wernholm will talk about how the Learning Design Sequence model has been used in analyzing three pupils' joint work when creating an animated story by use of a digital application. Their working process comprised different activities involving different tools. We will mainly focus on how the three pupils positioned themselves and each other, and how the different activities involving different tools appeared to be important for their possibilities to take on different positions. Kristina and Marina will start with a short presentation of their work, followed by a conversation with Staffan Selander. The seminar will conclude with a discussion among participants and speakers.
Watch the recording of the seminar here
September 15th, 2022
Discussion with Richard Halverson, Staffan Selander and Lisa Björklund Boistrup What Designs for learning makes visible.
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The first seminars took place on the 8th of June 2022 where the anthology Designs for research, teaching and learning. A framework for future education (Björklund Boistrup, L. & Selander, S.; Eds., Routledge) was presented. The book is published as open access here.
Watch the recording of the seminar here.