Workshop: New Media and New Learning in Contemporary Education

This workshop collects our experience in different forms of teaching with intercultural and bildung profiles and by using New Media methodology.

The workshop will be held on-site but you can also participate by joining by zoom:
https://sh-se.zoom.us/j/66882802178
Passcode 123456

Program:
08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee.
Plenary Session: 09:00-09:20 Opening of the Workshop: Anders J. Persson, Head of the School of Teacher Education. Welcoming Words from the Organising Committee.

09:20-09:40 Multimodal Education of National Minorites and Multilingual Students: a New Approach to the Education of Multilingual Students When Their Multilingualism Will Be Advantageous in the Educational Process. Kati Dimiter-Taikon, Angelina Dimiter-Taikon, Mikael Demetri, Lars-Eric Larsson, Indulis Zalite, Tetiana Polienysheva & Alla T. Alzhanova-Ericsson, Sweden, Latvia & Ukraine

09:40-10:00 Report about a New Teaching and Learning Model of Language Education of Students with Mother Tongue Different from the Standard School Language. Kati Dimiter-Taikon, Södertörn University

10:00-10:20 Revitalisation of Romani Traditions’ and Roma Gestalt in Sweden. Mikael Demetri and Håkan Blomqvist, Södertörn University

10:20-10:40 Qualitative and Qualitative Analysis of Mathematical Bishop’s Activities in Preschool Prospective Teachers’ Field-Report Observations: New Ideas in Early Childhood Education. Mariann Kuusivuori, Eva Färjsjö & Alla T. Alzhanova-Ericsson, Södertörn University

10:40-11:00 Working with Film and Photography in Contemporary Education, Lars-Eric Larsson, FilmRiket, Luleå, Sweden

11:00-11:20 Youth Science Competitions, Transformative Education. 4DFrame, Robots and Programming. Marianna Back & Alla T. Alzhanova-Ericsson, National Museum of Science and Technology & Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.

11:20-11:40 The End of the Russian Liberal Experiment, Hopes, Ghosts and Echoes from the 1990’s: Through the Eyes of an American Photojournalist.
Edward Opp, USA. Presentation via zoom.

11:40-12:00 History in Pictures at the Latvian Center for Documentation of Consequences of Totalitarianism. Indulis Zalite, Latvia. Presentation via zoom.

12:00-12:20 Outdoor Environment for Holistic Learning: Photographical Images of Stockholm and Surroundings. Björn Wahlqvist

12:20-12:40 Publishing and Content Building of Educational Websites in Ukraine. Tetiana Polienysheva, Ukraine. Presentation via zoom.

12:40-13:00 Video Filming and Photography in Elementary Extended School Teaching and Learning. Using a StopMotion and iMovie. Gorgis Zadeq & Marianne Lagrell, Södertörn University & Annersta School, Stockholm, Sweden.

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Practical Session: 14:00-15:30 MD242 or Zoom-webinar. Practicing macrophotography with Nikon camera and a Microscope; practicing with RainBow Easi-Scopes - a simple Plug and Play Microscope sending images to a computer, a Manipulative Tool 4DFrame and programming of playful robots. Anders Amelin and other contributors of the workshop.

15:30 -16:00 Discussion about the new ideas and plans. End of the official part of the Workshop.

The initial idea - an education is the basis of democracy. This workshop collects our experience in different forms of teaching with intercultural and bildung profiles and by using New Media methodology. This approach renders learners to actively participate in widening of their knowledge in science, mathematics, democracy, and history, in studying for understanding and in using modern educational tools. The workshop contributes to systematization of what we have and use, our ideas. It will help to spread results and strategies for development of education in the Baltic Region and Ukraine.

Purpose and relevance of the workshop.
Background of the workshop is in the holistic view on education of educators. This view is integrating different subjects and different languages, integrates educators’ and learners’ experience and practical needs. This approach is in the mainstream of modern educational ideas of the New Learning Theory by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. This theory suggests that possibilities for innovative learning environments are “afforded by a new generation of educational technologies: ubiquitous learning, active knowledge production, multimodal knowledge representations, recursive feedback, collaborative intelligence, metacognitive reflection and differentiated learning. The relationships of these new media to education can vary from attempts at transliteration of the classroom and heritage learning relationships into the digital media, to educational projects as fundamental as changing the social relationships of learning” (Cope & Kalantzis, 2012). A new showcase of sustainable and integrative active learning and the accompanying eResources is discussed through the new book Transformative Education by Charlotte Graham and Philippe Longchamps (2022).
We aim at establishing a core of international Baltic Region and Ukraine collaboration to provide an opportunity to spread an accumulated knowledge and experience, to attract new researchers and educational practitioners to these issues and to reflect about the results from Sweden, other Baltic Region countries and Ukraine.

Strategic significance and result.
The workshop will contribute to the development of new ideas for adequate, modern, and motivating education; it will explore these ideas in terms of collaboration; it will also address the ways of creating an environment for translating these ideas into practice, for disseminating the workshop’s results and for publicizing CBEES profile in Sweden and abroad.