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Download full textMagnusson, Petra; Godhe, Anna-Lena – Designs for Learning, 2019
The aim of this article is to discuss how a multimodal approach to meaning-making can contribute to language education and how multimodal meaning-making is supported in the Swedish curricula. Considering the rapid digitalization of contemporary communication, the aim and content of language education has been challenged. The article describes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Semiotics, Swedish
Cowan, Kate – Designs for Learning, 2020
Young children's play is highly multimodal, with gesture, gaze, movement and speech often combined simultaneously in collaborative meaning-making. This article argues for a multimodal social semiotic perspective on play, recognising that this requires representation of data that brings multimodal elements into careful consideration. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Play, Games
Bodén, Ulrika; Stenliden, Linnéa – Designs for Learning, 2019
This paper investigates the potential aspects of visual literacy that might appear when visual analytics and students interact in social science secondary classrooms. Interacting with visual technology likely demands new forms of literacy as various dimensions of complexity emerge in such learning activities where reading imposes order and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Visual Literacy, Learning Analytics
Dolo, Gilbert; Haglund, Jesper; Schönborn, Konrad – Designs for Learning, 2018
Inquiry-based approaches to science education are central to recent South African primary and secondary school curricula, but have been found challenging to adopt in disadvantaged township contexts. It is therefore important to find ways of introducing inquiry-based approaches, where pupils are encouraged to investigate phenomena they are…
Descriptors: Photography, Semiotics, Slum Schools, Inquiry
Petersen, Petra – Designs for Learning, 2018
In this video ethnographic study, a social semiotic approach has been used to explore how the use of digital tablets in preschools may enable children's communication in a minority language. The results show how preschool children use the emerging affordances of digital tablets in order to act as producers of minority language activities, where…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Handheld Devices, Multilingualism, Preschool Education
Danielsson, Kristina; Selander, Staffan – Designs for Learning, 2016
The re-conceptualisation of texts over the last 20 years, as well as the development of a multimodal understanding of communication and representation of knowledge, has profound consequences for the reading and understanding of multimodal texts, not least in educational contexts. However, if teachers and students are given tools to…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
