ungmods intercrit 2011
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Young People and Multimodal Expression-
The use of digital media for expression and reflection
UngMods Research project
Staff: [email protected], [email protected] , [email protected] [email protected]
Partners: Botkyrka municipality (Botkyrka kommun) and School of headmaster (Rektorsakademien)
Funded by The Knowledge Foundation: KK-stiftelsen
Aim
The aim of the project is to study how young people (13 to 17 years old) use ICT in formal and informal everyday learning situations, focusing on how multimodal expression support the learners critical reflection on learning, knowledge development and self development
Ung Mods has three subprojects
1- How are digital media used in school?
2- How are digital media used in leisure time?
3- How can digital media be used to support other kinds of literacies than the
written text?
UngMods timetable
2009/ 1-How are digital media used in school? 2010 / Analysis 1 and started
2-How are digital media used in leisure time? 2010 - 2011/ Analysis 2 and started
3-How can digital media be used to support other kinds of literacies than the written text? 2011/ Analysis “3” and of the entire project
Young People As Co- Researchers in developing
digital Media use in Swedish Public Schools and in their
leisure time
Challenge
• Finding the authentic voices of the children
• Making the children/pupils co - researchers
Data collection
• Young people as co - researchers (experience)
• Observations
• Interviews
• Access to the students computers and hard drives
Research seminar with the children (2009)
What is research? Quantitative and
Qualitative research. What is to know?
Exemple of topics
• Research Ethics, Anonymity
• Data collecting: Interviews,Observations,
• Data Analysis
What is research? What is to know?
Data collection (method course??)• From school: that which we see the students
do.• School and leisure time “free time”: the
students tells us they do. • Reflection on the realisation of the workshops
exercises.• Reflection on the interpretation of the data.Students as co-researchers:they help us to study
what other young people do.
Workshops with the pupils
Observations
• Place, date, and time.
• Describe the environment / place.
• Describe what happens.
• How do you interpretate/understand what happens?
• Why do you interpret/understand this so?
Young people as co-researches Preliminary Conclusions
– Learning process• Critical thinking: The pupils became more aware of the
difference of to see- documentation- interpretation• Learn from the young staff: the senior researchers
learn from the young co-researchers and get access to the concepts of the youth and their understanding of the phenomenon studied
• different perspectives and contexts are compared:• youth - adults - teachers• school - “free time” /leisure time
• Mandatory or compulsory school• Secondary school children do the exercises
as a school assignment. • The children in the upper-secondary school
show resistance in doing the exercises. We interpret the reason for this is that theupper-secondary school is not compulsory andthey can choose want they want to do. Primaryschool teacher’s are more engaged/involvedand this effects the students involvement.
What is the child's perspective?
• Children's perspective: Did we get the children's authentic perspective?
• Data collection: How to create interesting pedagogical situations and learning environments without intervening?
- Problems /challenges for the researchers -