Collaborative learning through film production on iPad: Touch creates conflicts

This paper considers how new media technology and its affordances challengeyoung children’s collaborative learning through film production in school. Byconducting a multimodal interactional analysis of children’s interaction whenmaking film, this paper sheds light on children’s acting and meaning-makingtogether in a multimodal composing practice. I will highlight this with oneillustrative example from one group’s filming to show how the communicative mode of touch is essential for collaboration in the group and for their final film, and how the mode of touch can create conflict in a group.