{"title":"Interview with Diana Laurillard, London","authors":"S. Selander","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0019","url":null,"abstract":"SSR: My first questions are related to your carrier. Where do you come from? Why did you end up here?","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69197802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ use of learning resources for writing in physics and Norwegian","authors":"Norunn Askeland, Bente Aamotsbakken","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0014","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we discuss dilemmas and paradoxes in the use of learning resources and the need to list sources when writing, issues that are relevant for students as well as for teachers and authors of textbooks. We draw on experience from a Norwegian research project investigating students’ writing in two subjects: physics and Norwegian in senior high and university. We study the genres used when students write in order to get knowledge and skills, and we have a special interest in the use of learning resources. It is evident that the two subjects represent different text cultures, but we have seen that there are also similarities in the use of learning resources in writing. Methodologically, we have used interviews in focus groups in addition to personal letters from the students. In this article we are especially interested in students who are considered to be successful writers and even risk- writers, i.e. writers who are so self-confident that they have the courage to break with established norms and conventions. The risk-writers are aware of borders between intertextuality and plagiarism and know how to work with sources in order to be creative and innovative writers even though they do it in different ways in the two textual cultures. In conclusion we suggest possibilities for bridging the two cultures by changing the learning resources and textbooks and the way of writing.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":"9-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69198167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Sudoku rules and labyrinthine paths- A study on design for creative Sudoku learning","authors":"G. Liao, Y. Shih","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Sudoku is an intelligence game that has fascinated many people. In addition to offering entertainment, it also attracts players to solve more challenging Sudoku questions. Sudoku novices tend to fail to focus on understanding the operation rules because the grid, words, and numbers of Sudoku are too complicated. The main purpose of this study is to integrate the concept of illustrations of labyrinthine multipath into the interface design of rules teaching of Sudoku to complete the learning design of Sudoku games. The research subjects were a total of 73 elementary school third graders in Miaoli County in Taiwan. The study used a single group pre-test and formal test design to investigate the difference in students’ learning effectiveness of Sudoku rules before and after they played Sudoku games. This study used a self-developed ARCS learning motivation scale to analyze the effect of Sudoku game on students’ learning motivation, and conducted in-depth interviews with three students with low learning achievement to observe their learning process and how their learning interest was aroused. The results showed that the Sudoku learning design with illustrations of labyrinthine multipath could help students understand Sudoku rules and enhance their learning interest in Sudoku.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":"58-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69198227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Learning Opportunities in Interaction Design: Interactionaries as a means to study and teach student design processes","authors":"R. Ramberg, H. Artman, K. Karlgren","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Learning by practice, apprenticeship and paradigmatic examples have been prime paths for learning within interaction design. These have been criticized for being time-consuming and costly, not being implementable in academic contexts. In this article we suggest and evaluate a pedagogical model to address these problems in design teaching and learning. Results from a time-constrained collaborative design exercise, a so-called “interactionary”, are presented. Student design work is analyzed using the framework of learning design sequences. Analysis of the primary transformation unit shows that interactionaries reveal patterns in student design work. Materials are used mainly to document design ideas rather than as a design material to further investigate design ideas and aspects of interaction. In the critiquing sessions, regarded as the secondary transformation unit, many issues hardly addressed during the design work were brought up. Thus, the designers continued to develop their design proposal primed by critique presented by the reviewers.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":"30-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69198179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards programmatic design research","authors":"J. Löwgren, Henrik Svarrer Larsen, Mads Hobye","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0017","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of design research entails research where design practice forms part of the knowledge production. Based on our characterization of the nature of design, we propose to conceptualize this kind of research as programmatic design research. Two ongoing PhD projects in interaction design are presented as examples of programmatic research processes, highlighting issues to do with the virtues and qualities of the processes, the interplay of optics and engagements in a hermeneutical dynamic, and the production of takeaways for the academic community.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":"80-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69198239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Search of Learning Opportunities for All - Exploring Learning Environments in Upper Secondary Schools","authors":"A. Louw, U. Jensen","doi":"10.2478/DFL-2014-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/DFL-2014-0018","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we address one of the most critical challenges facing the schools today: designing of learning environments that can provide learning opportunities for all students. The article first provides a brief introduction to content of this challenge. Then we focus on theoretical tools to understand the learning environment. Based on the concepts of classification and framing, as found in the later work of Basil Bernstein, we view that learning is fundamentally linked to the social and the cultural context of the school. To scales are presented for understanding and analysing the learning environment: the praxis scale and the student positioning scale. The scales are tools for analysing three different learning environments in upper secondary schools in Denmark, Switzerland and the USA. The article provides theoretical and empirical explanations of how the design of the learning environment is connected to the challenges and opportunities faced by different kinds of students. Based on these analyses, a model of four ideal types of learning environment will be presented. It is concluded that the specific design of the learning environment always comes down to the conscious, reflected and common sharing of the teaching responsibilities as the crucial factor in the development of learning opportunities for all students, regardless of the intention of the teaching and the desired learning outcome.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"6 1","pages":"102-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69197789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How design-based research and action research contribute to the development of a new design for learning","authors":"G. Majgaard, Morten Misfeldt, Jacob Nielsen","doi":"10.16993/DFL.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/DFL.38","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore how Action Research and Design-Based Research can be combined and used in the development of educational robotic tools. Our case study is the development of an educational tool called Number Blocks, and it combines physical interaction, learning, and direct feedback. Number Blocks support a child’s understanding of place value by allowing the child to experiment with large numbers. The tool was developed in collaboration with a class of 7- to 8-year-old children and their mathematics teacher. In this article, we compare and synthesize elements from different research methodologies and argue that these elements can constitute a structured approach to projects combining educational design research with new learning technologies. Key elements of the approach that has been developed include: acknowledging user input, active participation, developing a theoretical pre-analysis, and using an iterative approach.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"316 1","pages":"8-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67454737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Jonas Löwgren","authors":"R. Ørngreen, S. Selander","doi":"10.16993/DFL.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/DFL.41","url":null,"abstract":"Here we present an interview with Professor Jonas Lowgren, who is recognized for his work on both interaction design and communication design. We will present his interests and main questions, as well as his earlier work experiences, and how these have had an influence on his theoretical and practical research work today. One major question that Jonas puts forward is: Dissolution of the design object into a complex of communicative practices and services across media, pervading all aspects of everyday life, and the roles of interaction designers in this new landscape. With this interview, we would like to follow up these questions; to promote future dialogues between interaction and communication designers and people engaged in the design for – and in – learning communities.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"4 1","pages":"52-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67455112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presenting as a matter of design - exploring designs for learning","authors":"Marie Leijon","doi":"10.16993/DFL.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/DFL.40","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how “reception” in media courses can be understood as “designs for learning”. Teacher students, working with digital media production, meet in “receptions” where their works are presented, interpreted, and discussed. The analysis highlights presentation as an activity with its own setting that could be understood as an activity of interpretation and sign-making. The main argument is that a “presentation” can be understood as a learning sequence in itself.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"4 1","pages":"42-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67455056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two lenses on texts and practices: Analysing remixing practices across timescales","authors":"Øystein Gilje","doi":"10.16993/DFL.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/DFL.39","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars in several fields of research have increasingly started to pay attention to how young people remix media content on a wide range of sites and for various reasons. This article brings together socio-cultural and multimodal perspectives in order to provide a refinement of our understanding of remixing as a literacy practice. The author argues for two analytical lenses in order to understand how semiotic artefacts are negotiated by students and remixed in situ. By using the notion of timescale as a lynchpin between multimodal and socio-cultural analysis, the author seeks to understand how remixing work on different timescales. The author proposes the term R emixing to denote the development of culture across time, and the term r emixing to denote a practice that can be empirically examined through close analysis of artefacts and activities in literacy practices.","PeriodicalId":31187,"journal":{"name":"Designs for Learning","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67454882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}