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Björn Citrohn – Design and Technology Education, 2023
This study investigates, and further develops, a framework for analyzing technological knowledge emanating from school design projects; a framework that has the potential to be used as a tool for teachers when choosing and planning design projects. The study also intends to answer the research question: What technological knowledge, associated to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Stenliden, Linnéa; Bodén, Ulrika; Nissen, Jörgen – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
The study explores students' production of interactive visualized stories with visual analytics (VA). The aim is to understand emerging interactions in classrooms of grades 7-9 students when visual storytelling methods are playing a part in producing social science content. The dual aspects of visual literacy, information retrievement paired with…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Story Telling
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Elin Ericsson; Johan Lundin; Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
Speaking with an artificial counterpart in simulated environments has been shown beneficial for foreign language learning. Still, few studies have explored how it is experienced by younger students. We report on a study of Swedish students (N = 22) speaking English with embodied conversational agents (ECAs) in everyday-life scenarios. Data were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Vinnervik, Peter – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In Sweden, as in many other countries, programming has been added to the curriculum in recent years. This paper explores how and under what conditions programming is transformed into teaching in technology education. Teachers in grade 7-9 were interviewed about what and how they teach about programming in the context of technology education, and…
Descriptors: Programming, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Citrohn, Björn; Stolpe, Karin; Svensson, Maria; Bernhard, Jonte – Design and Technology Education, 2022
This study aims to investigate affordances of models and modelling in design projects in technology education. To learn more about affordances when working with models and modelling, four Swedish technology teachers were interviewed using a narrative approach. Despite a small number of informants data were rich, containing detailed descriptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Design, Models
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Grönlund, Åke; Wiklund, Matilda; Böö, Rickard – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Collaborative digital textbooks--comprehensive materials covering entire curriculums--are developing from being books in pdf format to becoming collaborative digital environments where teachers and students can communicate, engage in feedback and discussions, share and manipulate materials, test knowledge, and monitor results. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Educational Technology
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Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Designs for Learning, 2022
Drawing on experiences from a large-scale Nordic co-design research project, this paper explores the development of cross-border blended education with the aim to strengthen students' Nordic identity and knowledge of neighboring Nordic languages illuminating the flow of didactical designs students were offered to engage in, i.e. the knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Blended Learning, Educational Development
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Petersen, Ann-Louise – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2014
This article focuses on the leadership used by the principal in a collaborative ICT project. The case study chosen was a school project conducted within the NCCE project (Nordic Cross Country Education). The EU funded project ran for three years in grades 5-9 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The goal of the project was to develop cross-border…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Afdal, Geir – British Journal of Religious Education, 2015
This article is a contribution to the discussion of learning processes in religious education (RE) classrooms. Sociocultural theories of learning, understood here as tool-mediated processes, are used in an analysis of three RE classroom conversations. The analysis focuses on the language tools that are used in conversations; how the tools mediate;…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Practices, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories
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Nyman, Rimma – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article presents results from an empirical study of how student engagement is visible during introductory algebra. Previously, the notion of engagement in mathematics has been studied from students' and researchers' perspectives. This study is instead focused on teachers' perspectives on student engagement. Eight teachers in grade 6-7 have…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Practices, Introductory Courses, Algebra