In this chapter the authors discuss the challenges and potentials of using micro multimodal video analysis of children’s collaborative learning activities supported by touch-screen technology. Their research project integrating touch-screens in two primary school classrooms explores children between the age of eight and nine years. As a methodological approach, Davidsen and Vanderlinde suggest making use of micro multimodal video analysis in order to provide thick descriptions of how young children experience and interact with ICT in a specific context, focusing on how they engage in collaboration through language, gestures and digital learning materials. Most importantly, their contributions show how to conduct research from the children’s perspective, and how such a perspective can enrich both teachers’ pedagogical thinking as well as qualify our scientific understanding of how children are acting and making meaning in a digital environment.
Jacob Davidsen is affiliated to e-Learning Lab
