Browsing by Subject "digitaalinen lukutaito"
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(2015)Many international organizations have defined the so called 21st century learning skills that students should have in order to be successful in today's society. Digital literary is one of those skills. Experts say that schools do not really have the concrete tools to teach these skills. Research shows that digital storytelling is one way to develop many of the important 21st century skills. The purpose of this study is to analyze how students could develop their digital literacy by creating digital stories. More precisely, what kind of media content production, editing, and sharing skills will they learn by making their own video stories. This study is based on Digital Storytelling Project by the University of Helsinki. The project was a part of Finnable 2020 research funded by Tekes. This study involves all the 6th graders that participated to the Digital storytelling project from Finland, a total of five classes. The research material consists of student and teacher interviews and video stories made by the students. The research material was analyzed with content analysis. The framework for the analysis was based on research on digital literacy, digital storytelling and film narrative. The results of this study show that the students learned many digital literacy skills involving media content production by creating video stories. By making their stories the students learned to plan their own content, to search for relevant information and material to their stories, and to use mobile devices for filming. They also learned about filming, and how to deliver their own message through the video stories. By editing their stories the students practiced how to edit and remix pictures and videos with different video editing tools. By sharing their video stories with others the students learned how to share information, how to evaluate their own work and the work of others, how to consider the audience, and how to interact and influence through video stories.
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(2023)Aims. The aim of this study was to find out what kind of discourses related to literacy and reading occur in the writings of Helsingin Sanomat newspaper in January-February of 2022 when there was an intensive discussion about literacy. The literacy of the Finnish youth is still excellent, but the national PISA reports show a rapid increase of weak readers and a decrease in reading habits, especially among boys. The publication chain was initiated by an essay by Silvia Hosseini published in Helsingin Sanomat in January 2022. The essay discussed the differentiation and deterioration of literacy and its effect on surviving everyday life. The essay also commented on measures taken to promote literacy and offered solutions to stop the decline in literacy. This study examined how literacy and reading were portrayed in the writings published after the essay. What was discussed and what was overlooked. Methods. The study was based on the framework of social constructionism and the method was discourse analysis. The data consisted of 36 publications from Helsingin Sanomat. The material was compiled from the online archive of Helsingin Sanomat using the keywords “lukutaito” (literacy) and “lukeminen” (reading). Content analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. Results and discussion. The constructed discourses were reading is life, reading is beneficial, civic skill, reading requires alternatives, need for measures, measures are done, competition with digitalization, new era and differentiated literacy. Through the means of discourse analysis, it was possible to structure and identify different dimensions within the diverse public opinion discussion. Literacy was given significance as a key factor in the Finnish society from both an individual and communal perspective. The data contained concern, but the perspectives varied among discourses. The trend of declining literacy was seen as a problem that needed to be solved. The approaches to solutions differed and were partly contradictory across different discourse types. Digitalization was seen as a cause of illiteracy, but also as a solution. The differentiation of literacy caused almost unanimous concern.
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