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In order to progress in educational development, digitaldidactical designs area promising approach. Ourthreestudies show principlesof new designs including a) new learning goals where more than one correct answer exists, b) focus on learning as a process in informal-in-formal learning using guided reflections, c) making learning visible in different products. The studies illustratethatit is time for re-consideringestablished concepts of teaching–higher educationmovesfrom course-based learning into learning expeditions.

What is learning from the learners' point of view and how does this relate to the use of tablets? Young learners (6-14 years old) created own photos of learning situations, which served as premise in a qualitative research approach. Explorative conversations and photo-based group interviews were used as methods. Inspired by the methods Stimulated Recall and Photo Eliciting, a total of 283 photos were taken by the learners including 21 group interviews generated individual statements and utterances from 207 pupils in Scandinavian schools (K-9). Seven themes from [5] show the children’s view on "what learning is" with respect to their definitions of learning situations and then related to the use of tablets With the seven themes as a starting point, the authors are especially interested in discussing foundations for tablet-mediated learning cultures and its relation to CSCL in education.

Vuonna 2012 seitsemään kouluun Odderin kunnassa Tanskassa hankittiin tabletit. Noin 2000 iältään 6–16 vuotiasta oppilasta sekä noin 170 opettajaa saivat käyttöönsä henkilökohtaiset tabletit niin sanotun 1:1 ohjelman puitteissa (yksi tabletti per oppilas). Tutkija-ryhmämme aloitti työn koulujen parissa. Ensimmäinen tavoite oli ymmärtää opettajien didaktisia malleja. Miten opettajat käyttävät tabletteja, mihin tarkoituksiin ja miksi? Näihin kysymyksiin etsittiin vastauksia eri menetelmillä, joita olivat mm. syvähaastattelu, luo-kan observointi, ryhmätapaamiset opettajien ja oppilaiden kans-sa sekä verkkokysely. Olemme tehneet töitä kyseisten koulujen kanssa yli kolme vuotta. Kerromme yksityiskohtaisesti viiden eri oppitunnin opetuskäytännöistä ja -kokemuksista. Teknologian in-tegrointi määritellään digitaalis-didaktisen mallin kautta joka poh-jautuu sosio-teknis-pedagogiseen näkemykseen opetuskäytänteis-tä. Tutkimuksemme osoitti, että TVT on enemmäin kuin pelkkä työkalu ja että TVT ja luokkahuoneet ovat yhdistymässä joksikin uudeksi kokonaisuudeksi – uudeksi kommunikointi- ja viestintä-ympäristöksi.

The  approach  of  “Digital  Didactical  Designs”  (Jahnke,  Norqvist, &  Olsson 2013;Norberg & Jahnke, 2013) sounds promising to support a changing perspectiveon designs  for  teaching  and  learning.  It  uses  the  European  tradition  of  Didaktik  and scrutinizes  teaching  and  learning  as  socially  constructed  forms  of  social  practices.There is a difference between the theories of designing for learning and doing it. Our empirical studiesin Denmark and Sweden explore key principles,a) new learning goals where  more  than  one  correct  answer  exists,  b)  focus  on  learning  as  a  process  in informal-in-formal  learning  using  guided  reflections,  c)  making  learning  visible  in different products. Course-based learning turns into learning expeditions.

Current studies on media tablets illustrated that mobile technology may improve learning when truly integrated into learning settings. The question remains what truly integrated means, how it might be operationalized. In a study of Scandinavian classrooms, the question was how teachers adopt and integrate media tablets in their teaching practices in order to provide learning opportunities for their students. Seven K-9 schools implemented media tablets for around 2,000 students aged 6-16 and ca. 170 teachers in a 1:1 programme launched in 2012 (one tablet per student). Mixed methods, interviews, classroom observations and online surveys have been applied. The findings illustrate new forms of teaching practices. Studying technology integration from the angle of a socio-technical-pedagogical practice, it reveals the interrelationship of teaching processes and quality of learning. This study shows five forms of Digital Didactical Design in practice, which affect tablet-mediated learning expeditions – most of the designs boost learning, others restrict learning.

What is learning from the learners’ point of view and how does this relate to the use of mobile technology? Young learners (6-14 years old) created own photos of learning situations, which served as premise in a qualitative research approach. Explorative conversations and photo-based group interviews were used as methods. Inspired by the methods Stimulated Recall and Photo Eliciting, a total of 283 photos were taken by the learners including 21 group interviews generated individual statements and utterances from 207 pupils in Scandinavian schools (K-9). The authors are especially interested in discussing the methodology, a section that could be seen as fairly unorthodox in some research communities, since this workshop paper contributes with awareness and discussion about research methods in which young people have an important role as co-producers of knowledge. 

What do learners value as learning and how does this value relate to the use of mobile technology? Inspired by Stimulated Recall and Photo Eliciting, 207 K-9 students took photos (a total of 283 photos) of what they considered learning situations. Using these photos as starting points, we conducted 21 group interviews that generated 293 utterances. From these utterances, seven themes were generated that shows how the learners expressed their values of learning in a rich and diverse way. Without asking explicitly about technology, 33% of the utterances addressed the adoption of media tablets. These statements also revealed that when the learners personally "see" a perceived value for them as individuals, then they label the situation as learning. This study's findings show that identifying what young learners value as learning per se should be considered when designing teaching and learning towards learner-friendly active environments for pro-sumers. These findings also open the door for developing alternative ways for evaluating projects in schools that integrate educational technology.

Our study explores Digital  Didactics  Designs  using  mobile  technology  in  colocated settings. What kinds of digital didactical designs do teachers apply in their iPadclasses  in  schools? Classroom  observations  and  qualitative  data  were  collected  in aDanish community where 200  teachers  and  2,000  students  aged  6-16  use  iPads  in classrooms implemented  in  2012.  Based  on  the  theoretical  framework  called  Digital Didactics (DD),  five  patterns  of  Digital  Didactical  Designs and  following  the  innovative designs,  three  key  aspects  could  be  explored:  The  teachers’  digital  didactical  designsembrace a) new learning goals where more than one correct answer exists, b) focus on learning as a process in informal-in-formal learning spaces, c) making learning visible in different products (e.g., text, comics, podcasts). The study informs system developers for mobile learning applications in schools and teachers as workplace designers.

Traditionally, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) "has been segregated from the normal teaching classroom" P[12], e.g. in computer labs. This has been changed with the advent of smaller devices like iPads. There is a shift from separating ICT and education to co-located settings in which digital technology becomes part of the classroom. This paper presents the results from a study about exploring digital didactical designs using iPads applied by teachers in schools. Classroom observations and interviews in iPad-classrooms in Danish schools have been done with the aim to provide empirical evidence on the co-evolutionary design of both, didactical designs and iPads. The Danish community Odder has 7 schools where around 200 teachers and 2,000 students aged 6-16 use iPads in a 1: 1 iPad-program. Three key aspects could be explored: The teachers' digital didactical designs embrace a) new learning goals where more than one correct answer exists, b) focus on producing knowledge in informal-in-formal learning spaces, c) making learning visible in different products (text, comics, podcasts etc.). The results show the necessity of rethinking traditional Didaktik towards Digital Didactics.

Traditionally, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) "has been segregated from the normal teaching classroom" [12], e.g. in computer labs. This has been changed with the advent of smaller devices like iPads. There is a shift from separating ICT and education to co-located settings in which digital technology becomes part of the classroom. This paper presents the results from a study about exploring digital didactical designs using iPads applied by teachers in schools. Classroom observations and interviews in iPad-classrooms in Danish schools have been done with the aim to provide empirical evidence on the co-evolutionary design of both, didactical designs and iPads. The Danish community Odder has 7 schools where around 200 teachers and 2,000 students aged 6-16 use iPads in a 1:1 iPad-program. Three key aspects could be explored: The teachers' digital didactical designs embrace a) new learning goals where more than one correct answer exists, b) focus on producing knowledge in informal-in-formal learning spaces, c) making learning visible in different products (text, comics, podcasts etc.). The results show the necessity of rethinking traditional Didaktik towards Digital Didactics.