7th International Designs for Learning Conference: Remediation of Learning – day 1

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This year's Nordic Designs for Learning conference is arranged by Stockholm university, but takes place online.
The welcome address is held by Staffan Selander (for the conference itself) and Anna Åkerfeldt (who talks about the journal).
The deadline for submissions of full articles for the latter is October 30, 2021, but depending on focus there are other possibilities as well.
The first parallel session, chaired by Eva Insulander, begins at 12.15 and begins with Kristina Danielsson's talk on how young learners create stop motion animations for abstract content.
Using iPads, the pupils record what they are doing in scientific experiments, make sense of these experiments, and create animations based on this.
The presenters of the second talk, Trevor Volkwyn and John Airey, discuss the use of social semiotics as a lens to study the role of physics devices in the teaching and learning of science.
How are messages conveyed and understood? Transduction as involving additions and subtractions of meaning.
The basic functions of devices are to intensify, filter, or transduct.
With the overarching theme the Covid-19 pandemic, the second parallel session, also chaired by Eva Insulander, begins with Eva and her colleague Mia Heikkilä discussing educational spaces and learning environments in different learning contexts.
The second speaker, Nina Bergdahl, discusses what happens in education due to the pandemic.
The third presentation, Johan Stymne's "An Analysis of Online Support for Group Work in a Student Design Assignment during Covid-19" takes its departure from HCI with online tools and types of learning as its focus.
After the keynote speech, the third and last set of parallel sessions of the day is scheduled. This is also the session where Sylvi and I are presenting, so the choice of session is not an actual choice. Before our own presentation, we listen to Karoline Schnaider's and Limin Gu's "Teachers’ technology use in learning-design: aspects of meaningmaking and co-design."
The second presentation, Elisabeth Rolf's, Ola Knutsson's, and Robert Ramberg's "Analyses of teachers’ use of pedagogical patterns and design work."

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