Presentation held at ECER/EERA conference in Istanbul on September 9th 2013. The presentation focuses on the notion of Lesson Flow and how technolgies mediate breaks in that Lesson Flow. Part of a PhD project on Technologies in Teacher Eduaction.

1. Technologically mediated
breaks in lesson flow
Mediating Technologies in
Teacher Education
Ann-Thérèse Arstorp
The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University
University College UCC, Denmark

2. Key Points
 Lesson flow is of key importance to
teachers
 Technologies mediate breaks in lesson flow and
interferes with a core element in teaching
 Teachers have to develop new skills to deal with
technologically mediated lesson breaks

3. Background
Political interest in technology
 Government policies
 Visions of a digitalized
Denmark throughout the
public sector:
 Leading digital nation
 Research interest
 Technucation.dk/en
 Technological literacy in nurses’
and teachers’ professions

4.  A flow from one activity to another:
 Teacher presenting 
students doing group work 
watching a videoclip 
teacher presenting 
plenary discussion
…when uninterrupted = lesson flow
What is Lesson Flow?

5.  My data shows that lesson flow is important for lesson
completion
 Technology disturbs lesson flow with breakdowns
 flow-stopping artifact
 Flow becomes important because of a cutback in lessons
 teacher’s motive: to reach the learning goals
Technologies & Lesson Flow

6. Subject: Danish
Topic: Children’s
Reading Development
Technology as a flow-
stopping artifact
The Missing Sound

7. The Wrong Player
Subject: Danish
Topic: The Transformation
from graphic novel to movie
Technology as a flow-stopping
artifact

8. Important Points
Technology in the Classroom
 Interferes with a crucial element in teaching – lesson
flow
 Dealing with technologies means added complexity
 Requires new ways of understanding teaching practice
with technologies

9. Ann-Thérèse Arstorp, ata@dpu.dk
Twitter: @arstorp
Technucation.dk/en
Thank You for Your
Attention