The focus of this article is on digital literacy and students' use of digital sources. Examining how students choose digital video sources when doing group work with tablets in a social studies project. The analysis centers on how students collaboratively negotiate and reason around their choice of video sources during an assignment about environmental issues. The data corpus consists of videos of group work. A sociocultural perspective on learning is employed for analyzing student participation. We explore how the tablets influence the group interaction and how the group members negotiate the process of choosing the video sources found online. The findings show that students do not discuss digital sources only in terms of the formal criteria for digital literacy, but in relation to their perception of how the video sources are presented. Based on the findings, we discuss digital literacy in the context of group work with tablets.
Teaching and Learning Center at USN. Lofthus`research examines students digital literacies as social practices. She is focusing on qualitative methods in her research. Lars Frers is a professor of social studies at USN´s Notodden campus. Frers`research examines the role of materiality and design in establishing social control, with a focus on qualitative methods and the senses. He explores boundaries and peripheral areas around themes such as absence and failure.
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