Creative learning technologies as a catalyst for rethinking education

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 144–147

There is a movement towards a new paradigm in the mediatized Scandinavian societies that aims at developing the students' creativity, critical sense and ability to collaborate and communicate, thereby equipping them with necessary media skills and...

Topics: Instructional Design, Implementation Examples & Issues

Developing ICT-facilitators Competencies through a Blended Learning Approach

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1530–1531

A blended learning approach to a diploma course for in-service teachers, studying to become Pedagogical ICT facilitators, may have implications for their learning process in relation to a multimedia production. Drawing on cases from this diploma...

Topics: Teachers

Digital Storytelling as a Context for Collaborative and Creative Learning

Lisa Gjedde

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2387–2389

Digital narrative learning environment may provide learning potentials, which may influence the production of stories and the collaborative work of the students in a creative learning context. This action research project is looking at the...

Topics: Collaboration

Participatory Learning and Media in Early Childhood Transitions

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 812–816

Introducing ICT in kindergarten and preschool with adequate pedagogical scenarios to foster learning environments for resilience, holds great potential to prevent early school leaving and offer children (age 4-6) a good start in the education system....

Topics: Participatory learning and media

Building 21st. Century literacies through digital animated storytelling

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 163–166

Abstract: This paper will present the preliminary findings from a R&D project on developing 21st. Century literacies in a digital Storylab at a public library, doing digital animated storytelling, in collaboration with municipal schools. It will...

Topics: research, Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues

Bridges across contexts – developing an animated Story World for Early Childhood transitions

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 812–816

Learners successful experiences during the transition from Kindergarten to school can have a profound and lasting impact on their performance throughout their education and beyond. Learners who do not have positive experiences during this critical...

Topics: Participatory learning and media, Creativity and Problem Solving

Narrative, Context and Cognition in Interactive Media.

Lisa Gjedde

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1653–1655

Based on case-studies of edutainment Multimedia programmes this study is exploring the affordances of the contextual elements of narrative in relation to interactive Multimedia programmes, the possible cognitive costs that lack of canonical...

Topics: Multimedia, Programming

Designing for Narrative Learning in an On-Line Interactive Environment

Lisa Gjedde

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1340–1342

Narrative is fundamental for the construction of meaning on a personal as well as on a community level and this work-in-progress study is exploring how the use of an embedding narrative framework situates the learners' own collaborative narrative...

Topics: Collaboration

Designing for motivational immersive learning through narrative role-play scenarios

Lisa Gjedde

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 337–341

With a high percentage of youth who drop-out from the educational system, there is a need for learning designs that can engage a broad spectrum of learners in meaningful learning activities that develop motivation, resilience and academic skills....

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Research Methods, Social & Cultural Issues, Social Studies, research

Fostering Creativity in the Classroom through Animated Storytelling - Challenges and Potentials for Arts-integration in 21st. Century Learning

Lisa Gjedde

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 650–653

Creativity has been termed one of the most important skills of the 21st. Century classroom. While a traditional approach to education has not had a big emphasis on creativity in most subjects, the emerging learner-centered paradigm, as well as...

Topics: Constructivist Perspectives, pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies

Improving on Tacit Knowledge through a Media-rich Survey

Robin Sharp; Lisa Gjedde

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1962–1965

We describe a new approach to improving people’s performance in complex technical areas of which they have little or no real technical knowledge. A conceptual model is presented which relates the importance of relevant context, feedback, motivation ...