The digital learning resource – a tool, content or a peer? : Digital media in Learning Design Sequences

This article concerns the use of digital learning resources in the Swedish Social Science classroom. The aim is to find specific patterns in pupils´ subject related interaction and learning when they work with digital learning resources. This is illustrated by means of a Learning Design Sequence - LDS - which is a model for research and analysis developed within the project Digital media and learning design sequences in Swedish schools – user’s perspective, from which the empirical research material derives. The case study has a multimodal perspective on learning and is understood within social semiotic and socio cultural frames, with a focus on didactic design and multimodal analysis. The material consists of multimodally transcribed video recordings from four Learning Design Sequences in Social Science with pupils aged 6 to 11. The result divides the usage into four categories; search for; document, process and present information. Further the result present patterns in pupils´ interaction and learning and tries to understand these specific patterns according to above mentioned theories as well as related research.Artikeln var accepterad för tryckning i Stockholm Library of Curriculum Studies, ISSN 1403-4972, vol. 16, men trycktes aldrig eftersom rapportserien upphörde.Learning Design Sequences and digital learning recourses in Swedish schools – a user’s perspectiv