Biosketch: Dr. Annika Lantz-Andersson

Annika Lantz-Andersson holds a post doc in the LETStudio and works as Senior Lecturer in Education at University of Gothenburg. Annika’s research, which is rooted in a sociocultural tradition concerns research on communication and learning from a dialogical and microanalytical perspective, with a focus on social interaction the use of digital technology and what that implies for learning and education. The general aim of Annika’s PhD study was to explore the in situ practices that emerge among students when technology becomes part of educational arrangements.

Annika is currently involved in two research projects:

1. The first is within the LETStudio milieu, where she participate as researcher in data collection and analysis in the project plan "Studio 3, Preparing for citizenship: Literacy, digital media and learning to engage in science activities". This project consists of studying the interaction among secondary school students when they work with different digital media with a research interest in how students’ understandings of science knowledge develop.

2. The second research project named “Linguascapes - Language learning in social media worlds”, is financed by The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. This project has a focus on young people’s engagement in social media worlds, in order to study how such resources and new arenas can enhance the learning of English as a second language. The aim of this project is to study how the gap between young people’s language learning in social media practices and language learning practices in educational settings can be bridged.

Both research projects outlined above is motivated by interests in how we appropriate new knowledge and gain new experiences in various social settings and the role of digital technologies in such activities.

Recent publications

Articles

Lantz-Andersson, A., & Linderoth, J. (2011). The 'voice' of absent designers - Students' strategies when solving mathematical problems using educational software. Nordic Journal of Digital literacy, 6(1-2), 52-74.

Lantz-Andersson, A. (2009). The power of natural frameworks - Technology and question of agency in CSCL settings. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 4(1), 93-107.

Lantz-Andersson, A., Linderoth, J., & Säljö, R. (2009). What's the problem? Meaning making and learning to do mathematical word problems in the context of digital tools. Instructional Science, 37(4), 325-343.

Limberg, L., Alexandersson, M., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Folkesson, L. (2008). What matters? Shaping meaningful learning through teaching information literacy. Libri, 58(2), 82-91.

Doctoral dissertation

Lantz-Andersson, A. (2009). Framing in educational practices: Learning activity, digital technology and the logic of situated action (Göteborg Studies in Educational Sciences, 278). Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.

Books

Alexandersson, M., Limberg, L., Lantz-Andersson, A., & Kylemark, M. (2007). Textflytt och sökslump: informationssökning via skolbibliotek. (Forskning i fokus; 18). Stockholm: Myndigheten för skolutveckling.

Chapters in edited volumes

Lantz-Andersson, A., Linderoth, J., & Säljö, R. (2009). Vad är problemet? Kommunikation och lärande med digitala läromedel. In J. Linderoth (Ed.), Individ, teknik och lärande. s. 67-90. Stockholm: Carlssons Förlag.

Alexandersson, M., & Lantz-Andersson, A. (2008). Konsten att göra någonting av något - Myter om kunskapsbegrepps karaktär. In H. Rystedt & R. Säljö (Eds.) Kunskap och människans redskap: teknik och lärande. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Limberg, L., Alexandersson, M., & Lantz-Andersson, A. (2008). To be lost and to be a loser through the Web. In T. Hansson (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods and Ethical Issues. Hershey, PA. Information Science Reference