This study presents a development project within pre-school teacher training at Linnaeus University with the purpose to enhance student activity, goal fulfilment and the use of digital media. Empirical data is from an assessment where students were filmed in two steps, the second time by themselves, reflecting on a previously filmed presentation. Student previous knowledge is used as a capacity for self-reflection elaborating meta-cognitive awareness for a future teaching practice. The study uses a relational approach which takes into account both cognitive and emotional aspects of learning. Analyses show an enhanced meta-cognitive awareness of future pedagogical practice manifested at three levels. Students’ strategies vary between being able to act upon established knowledge in a pedagogical practice to be- ing able to stretch into and vision a future practice and discuss consequences for relations and the impact of democratic values in practice. Digital reflections as a didactical tool were by students themselves regarded as supportive for qualitative variations of reflections related to a future professional practice although further precision in task description and framing is probably necessary for a majority to develop an elaborated awareness.