Digital literacy

Digital literacy

Focus on digital literacy and digital activities including multimodal tools in teaching and learning in different subject areas.

Research Projects

Young students’ critical information awareness in digital environments

Young students use internet daily, both in school and at home. The curricula for year 1 states that students should learn to critically evaluate information, use search engines on the internet and reach an understanding that every piece of information has a sender/an origin. This project seeks to contribute knowledge of students in the lower […]

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Digital activities as a support for L1 literacy development

Children are today expected to be proficient in skills as digital reading and writing, information search and creating multimodal texts; they shall become digital competent. In the elementary L1-classroom a large proportion of the instructional activities are dedicated to learning how to read and write. This project seeks to contribute knowledge of how digital literacy […]

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To experience and represent the world visually

The globalization and the digitization of society have had a major impact on how we communicate and how we learn in both informal and formal settings (Carlsson (ed.), 2013; Cope & Kalantzis (ed.), 2000; Erixon (ed.), 2014; Jenkins, 2006; Jewitt (ed.), 2014; Kittler, 2003; Olin-Scheller & Lundström, 2014). But while young people today gain a […]

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