DFL1_10:Layout 1 12-03-22 11.05 Sida 2 gunver majgaard, morten misfeldt & jacob nielsen: How design-based research and action research contribute to the development of a new design for learning øystein gilje: Two lenses on texts and practices: Analysing remixing practices across timescales marie leijon: Presenting as a matter of design exploring designs for learning rikke øgreen & staffan selander: Interview with Jonas Löwgren DESIGNS FOR #2/11 LEARNING
DFL1_10:Layout 1 12-03-22 11.09 Sida 5 No.2/11. DESIGNS FOR LEARNING / VOLUME 4 / NUMBER 2 / DECEMBER 2011 Editorial: eva insulander 6 gunver majgaard, morten misfeldt & jacob nielsen: 8 How design-based research and action research contribute to the development of a new design for learning øystein gilje: Two lenses on texts and practices: 28 Analysing remixing practices across timescales marie leijon:presenting as a matter of design 42 exploring designs for learning rikke øgreen & staffan selander: Interview with Jonas Löwgren 52 3
Editorial staff Thorkild Hanghøj, University of Aalborg, Denmark Birgitte Holm Sørensen, University of Aalborg, Denmark Eva Insulander, Stockholm University, Sweden Anna-Lena Kempe, Stockholm University, Sweden Susanne Kjällander, Stockholm University, Sweden Karin Levinsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark Fredrik Lindstrand, University of Gävle, Sweden Staffan Selander, Stockholm University, Sweden Eva Svärdemo Åberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Tore West, Stockholm University, Sweden Anna Åkerfeldt, Stockholm University, Sweden Rikke Ørngreen, University of Aalborg, Denmark Legally responsible: Staffan Selander Advisory board Mikael Alexandersson, Gothenburg University, Sweden Anders Björkvall, Stockholm University, Sweden Andrew Burn, University of London, Great Britain Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Ola Erstad, University of Oslo, Norway Chaechun Gim, Yeungnam University, South Korea Sven Erik Hansén, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Torlaug L Hoel, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway Ria Heilä-Ylikallio, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Glynda Hull, University of California, Berkeley, USA Carey Jewitt, University of London, Great Britain Søren Kjørup, Roskilde University, Denmark Susanne V Knudsen, Vestfold University, Norway Gunther Kress, University of London, Great Britain Per Ledin, Örebro University, Sweden Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jonas Linderoth, Gothenburg University, Sweden Svein Lorentzen, University of Trondheim, Norway Sten Ludvigsen, University of Oslo, Norway Åsa Mäkitalo, Gothenburg University, Sweden Palmyre Pierroux, University of Oslo, Norway Robert Ramberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Klas Roth, Stockholm University, Sweden Svein Sjöberg, University of Oslo, Norway Roger Säljö, Gothenburg University, Sweden Elise Seip Tønnesen, Agder University, Norway Johan L. Tønnesson, University of Oslo Norway Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen, Norway Christoph Wulf, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany Bente Aamotsbakken, Vestfold University, Norway ISSN 1654-7608 The authors, 2011 Designs for Learning, 2011 DidaktikDesign, Stockholm University. Graphic Design: AMGD/Anders Malmströmer Grafisk Design Layout: Anna Åkerfeldt 4
The 3rd international conference Designs for Learning 25-27 april 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark The Third Designs for Learning Conference will explore learning environments. The conference will be organized around empirical research methods and theoretical development in relation to designs for - and in - learning. The conference is hosted by Department of Learning & Philosophy Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Keynote speakers: Julian Sefton-Green, Professor, University of Nottingham Diana Laurillard, Professor, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London University Jonas Löwgren, Professor, School of Arts, Communication and Media, Malmø Univertity Birgitte Holm Sørensen, Professor, Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University Staffan Selander, Professor, Department of Education, Stockholm University Conference website: http://designsforlearning2012.aau.dk DESIGNS FOR LEARNING 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012 exploring learning environments 5
Editorial By eva insulander, Stockholm University, Sweden In this issue, there is a focus on the usability of new digital technology and media in formal and non-formal learning settings. Three different articles and one interview address this theme from the perspective of design. However, the notion of design is being explored from two somewhat different positions. Øystein Gilje and Marie Leijon use it as an analytical concept in the articles, as it highlights the creative aspects of learning and communication. In an article by Majgaard, Misfeldt and Nielsen and in an interview with professor Jonas Löwgren, it refers instead to a creative process of developing specific tools that, for instance, can be used to support communicating and learning. Both these approaches contribute to an understanding of collaborative and learning processes. In the first article Majgaard, Misfeldt and Nielsen, has a focus on methodology and gives an account of how action research and design-based research has been used in a case study. The case study includes a development of an educational robotic system called Number blocks, with the intention to support young pupils learning in mathematics. In the following article, Gilje looks at how young people edit and remix media into new kinds of creative texts (re-design). The author uses video data from a documentary project in a media studies class, in an upper secondary school. His analysis highlights how meaning-making can be understood in relation to different timescales, on a social- and micro level. The last article, Marie Leijon discusses, from a design-oriented and multimodal perspective on Learning Design Sequences, issues of learning and interpretation in courses on digital media production. Her study of student teachers work with film points at the potentials for learning when these films are presented and discussed. During the presentation, participants act as both authors and readers of text. This phase include the teachers setting of the scene as well as selection and use of available resources in the learners a process of meaning-making, which may be understood as a learning sequence in itself. Marie Leijon and Øystein Gilje are both examining aspects of filmmaking practices, using a multimodal approach to communication, which enables de- 6 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/dfl.37
tailed analyses of the potentials of semiotic resources, seen in relation to the participants sign making. Their research is equally based on an interest in the social aspects of learning, which is also a premise in the work of Majgaard, Misfeldt and Nielsen. The emphasis in their research is on active participation and user input. In this issue, Staffan Selander and Rikke Ørngreen meets with Jonas Löwgren, professor of interactive design and the co-founder of School of arts and communication (K3) in Malmö. Professor Jonas Löwgren gives an account of his work to converge interaction design with media and communication studies, and provides interesting reflections of the similarities and possible differences between interaction design and collaborative media design, as well as between everyday design and professional design. Eva Insulander 7