Hur mellanstadielärare implementerar digitala verktyg i NO-undervisningen

• Main Authors: Lantz, Liv, Stjernfelt, Kristofer
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) 2016
• Subjects: computer education; ICT; middle school; teachers; Science; education; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36375

This study has two main focuses. The first centers on teacher’s use of digital tools within the Swedish middle-school educational system. The second emphases which purpose and in what situations teachers implement digital tools in their teaching. Hence, chosen research questions are: (I) What are the main determining factors controlling the use of digital tools within science education? (II) With which purposes and in what contexts do teachers use digital tools? This study is based on qualitative interviews on an assorted group of respondents, and the results are analyzed from the socio-cultural and constructivist theories of learning. Collectively our interviews show that the main determining factors controlling the use of digital tools are school resources, the teacher knowledgebase and the teachers approach towards digital tools. Furthermore, this study shows that the use of digital tools is most commonly implemented as a complement to traditional teaching methods, and primarily to increase student motivation.