The chronotopes of technology-mediated creative learning practices in an elementary school community

This socioculturally informed study examines space–time configurations of students' technology-mediated creative learning practices in a Finnish elementary school over a school musical project. This study focuses on the social practices of 21 students who worked with personal laptops, wireless internet access, and a collaborative writing service, at school and outside, to collaborate on creating a school musical script. The findings provide evidence of a novel chronotope in which the students engaged in ubiquitous, multimodal, and multidimensional, technology-mediated creative learning practices. These blended practices appeared to break away from traditional learning practices, allowing students to navigate in different time zones, spaces, and places with diverse tools situated in their formal and informal lives.

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