Mediating technologies ECER conference 09/09/13

Technologically mediated breaks in lesson flow

Mediating Technologies in Teacher Education

Ann-Thérèse ArstorpThe Danish School of Education, Aarhus

University

University College UCC, Denmark

Key Points Lesson flow is of key importance to teachers

Technologies mediate breaks in lesson flow and interferes with a core element in teaching

Teachers have to develop new skills to deal with technologically mediated lesson breaks

BackgroundPolitical interest in technology

Government policies Visions of a digitalized

Denmark throughout the public sector: Leading digital nation

Research interest Technucation.dk/en Technological literacy in nurses’

and teachers’ professions

A flow from one activity to another: Teacher presenting

students doing group work watching a videoclip teacher presenting plenary discussion

…when uninterrupted = lesson flow

What is Lesson Flow?

My data shows that lesson flow is important for

lesson completion

Technology disturbs lesson flow with breakdowns

flow-stopping artifact

Flow becomes important because of a cutback in

lessons

teacher’s motive: to reach the learning

goals

Technologies & Lesson Flow

Subject: Danish

Topic: Children’s

Reading Development

Technology as a flow-

stopping artifact

The Missing Sound

The Wrong Player

Subject: Danish

Topic: The Transformation

from graphic novel to

movie

Technology as a flow-

stopping artifact

Important PointsTechnology in the Classroom

Interferes with a crucial element in teaching – lesson flow

Dealing with technologies means added complexity

Requires new ways of understanding teaching practice with technologies

Ann-Thérèse Arstorp, ata@dpu.dkTwitter: @arstorp

Technucation.dk/en

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