ERIC Number: EJ1255694
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 11
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Meanings Made in Students' Multimodal Digital Stories: Resources, Popular Culture, and Values
Dahlström, Helene; Damber, Ulla
Designs for Learning, v12 n1 p45-55 2020
The young generation are both consumers and producers of digital multimodal texts and can thus be seen as cocreators of the culture and the contexts that they are part of. Learning more about how students create multimodal texts and what students' texts are about can extend the understanding of contemporary meaning making. This study examines 23 Swedish fifth-grade students' multimodal digital stories in a school context. The aim of this research was to understand the meaning that the students made in their digital narratives and to describe how they made that meaning. This study's multimodal textual analysis is based on the multiliteracies perspective. The results indicate that all of the students, to varying degrees, took advantage of the available digital and modal resources. Some students chose writing as their sole mode, but others used all of the available resources. Furthermore, the results revealed that students' popular culture experiences influenced many of their texts, which can indicate that popular culture texts are used as resources for making meaning about the world.
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Multimedia Materials, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Critical Reading, Teaching Methods, Design, Values, Story Telling
Stockholm University Press. Stockholm University Library, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden. Web site: https://www.designsforlearning.nu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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