An Exploration of How Multimodally Designed Teaching and the Creation of Digital Animations can Contribute to Six-Year-Olds’ Meaning Making in Chemistry

Patron, EmelieLinnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP),DIGI (author)

Previous research shows that pupils’ participation in educational activities increases when they are allowed to use several forms of expression. Furthermore, digital media have become increasingly prominent as “carriers” of meaning in chemistry education. Based on that, this paper aims to explore ‘what is happening’ and ‘what is possible’ when six-year-old pupils participate in multimodally designed learning activities and create digital animations of water molecules and phase changes of water. This study is qualitative and draws on the frameworks of social semiotics and Designs for Learning, DfL, where teaching and learning are seen as a multimodal design. The Learning Design Sequence model, developed within DfL is used as a basis for the lesson design and as an analytical tool. The analyzed data were generated by filming when pupils participated in multimodal learning activities, created digital animations, and participated in meta-reflective discussions regarding their digital animations. The main findings are that multimodally designed lessons can increase pupils’ meaning making in chemistry, that the creation of digital animations may both increase pupils’ participation and support their meaning making, and that meta-reflection of pupils’ representations is an important part of the lesson design.

Wernholm, Marina,PhD,1972-Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för pedagogik och lärande (PEL),DIGI(Swepub:lnu)maweab (author)
Danielsson, Kristina,Professor,1961-Linnéuniversitetet,Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik,Linnaeus University, Sweden,Institutionen för svenska språket (SV),Stockholms University, Sweden,DIGI(Swepub:lnu)krdaab (author)
Palmér, Hanna,1974-Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för matematik (MA),DIGI(Swepub:lnu)hpamsi (author)
Ebbelind, Andreas,Dr,1975-Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för matematik (MA),DIGI(Swepub:lnu)aebmsi (author)
LinnéuniversitetetInstitutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP) (creator_code:org_t)

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