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Teacher Educators’ Professional Digital Competence in Primary and Lower Secondary School Teacher Education Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Fredrik Mørk Røkenes,Ruth Grüters,Cecilie Skaalvik,Tove Grete Lie,Ove Østerlie,Anna Järnerot,Kristoffer Humphrey,Øistein Gjøvik,Mari-Ann Letnes
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Teacher educator in a digital age: A study of transformative agency Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Toril Aagaard,Agnete Bueie,Hjørdis Hjukse
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Professional digital competence in strategy and management: A case study of three teacher education programs in Norway Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Synnøve Amdam,Lina Rebekka Kobberstad,Tarja Irene Tikkanen
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Professional digital competence in initial teacher education: An examination of differences in two cohorts of pre-service teachers Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Johan Kristian Andreasen,Cathrine E. Tømte,Ingvild Bergan,Velibor Bobo Kovac
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Towards a Conceptual Model of Media Education: A Finnish Perspective Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Vallery Michael,Jussi Okkonen
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Fingerprints: towards a multisensory approach to meaning in digital media Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-12-14 André Storto
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Classroom management in a time of upheaval Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Rune Johan Krumsvik
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Diagnostic and educational self-assessment of the digital competence of university teachers Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-12-14 María Ángeles Llopis Nebot,Virginia Viñoles Cosentino,Francesc M. Esteve-Mon,Jordi Adell Segura
The importance of promoting digital transformation processes in higher education has been increasing over in the last decade. Recently, the impact of the health crisis experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic on educational activity has further accelerated this transformation. In order to take advantage of the potential of digital tools in educational processes, as well as to manage these new
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A balancing Act – Perceptions of how Teachers in Norwegian and Mathematics combine Digital and Analogue Devices Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Sabine Wollscheid,Cathrine E. Tømte,Henrikke Flittig-Aardalen,Karin Vaagland,Frida Vennerød-Diesen
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Facing the challenges of ‘digital competence’ Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Ola Erstad,Susanne Kjällander,Sanna Järvelä
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Digital communication and collaboration in lower secondary school Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Arne Midtlund,Elen Johanna Instefjord,Aleksandra Lazareva
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Supporting classroom dialogue through developing the Talkwall microblogging tool: Considering emerging concepts that bridge theory, practice, and design Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Ole Smørdal,Ingvill Rasmussen,Louis Major
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Digital directions: Curricular goals relating to digital literacy and digital competences in the Gymnasium (stx) in Denmark. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Annemari Munk Svendsen,Jesper Tinggaard Svendsen
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Students’ perceptions and use of a new digital tool in teacher education Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Monika Bader,Sarah Hoem Iversen,Tony Burner
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When good intentions may not be good enough Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Cormac McGrath
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Translating government digitalisationpolicy in higher education institutions: the Danish case Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Sanne Haase,Lillian Buus
The Danish national government (2018) prioritises a proactive digitalisation of the public sector, including higher education institutions (HEIs). HEIs are facing major changes and need to integrate increasingly advanced digital technologies, and might soon be significantly different from what they are today. The mechanisms linking national policy discourses and the implementation of actual, new practices
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Is there a Scandinavian model for MOOCs? Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Cathrine Edelhard Tømte,Vito Laterza,Rómulo M. Pinheiro,Aleksandar Avramovic
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Online or offline – Does it matter? Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Cathrine Edelhard Tømte,Cay Gjerustad
Policymakers and scholars are scaling up online professional development programmes for teachers. We studied how in-service teachers in Norway perceived their learning outcomes for professional development programmes conducted either as campus-based or online courses. Based on survey data, we found teachers studying online and in campus-based settings have relatively similar perceptions of the learning
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Guest Editorial Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Vito Laterza, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Rómulo M. Pinheiro
In this introductory essay, we build on the articles in this special issue to provide a novel theoretical framework for the understanding of current and future trends in the digitalisation of teaching and learning in Nordic higher education (HE) We highlight three key elements Context is critical and should be systematically expanded to include not only the immediate context of the virtual and blended
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Young students making textual changes duringdigital writing Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Charlotte Engblom,Katharina Andersson,Dan Åkerlund
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Finnish subject teachers’ beliefs anduse of information and communication technology in Home Economics Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Karin Sundqvist,Johan Korhonen,Gunilla Eklund
The importance of using information and communication technology (ICT) is being increasingly highlighted in education and curriculum frameworks in European countries. However, little attention has been given to using ICT in relation to the school subject of Home Economics (HE). Thus, the aim of this study is to explore Finnish subjectteachers’ use of ICT in HE, specifically focusing on frequency, purpose
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Students’ critical analyses of prominent perspectivesin a digital multimodal text Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Lisa Molin,Anna-Lena Godhe
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“We Need Sound Too!” Children and Teachers Creating Multimodal Digital Stories Together Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Marianne Undheim
In most contemporary societies there is broad access to a range of digital technologies. However, in the current debate concerning digital technology in early childhood education and care institutions (ECEC), digital technologies are often referred to merely as screens. This paper contributes to the current research by exploring the technologymediated creation process when groups of young children
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Digitization in the intersection between sociology,educational policy and deep learning Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Øystein Gilje
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Designing a Socio-Cultural Approach for Teaching and Learning Computational Thinking Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Francisco Buitrago-Flórez, Giovanna Danies, Javier Tabima, Silvia Restrepo, Carola Hernández
In recent years, Computational Thinking (CT) has been claimed to be a powerful way for competencies and skill development for students at any stage. Programming has been the main tool for CT development; nevertheless, several issues associated with learning and teaching programming exist and have been widely described. In this study, we designed and tested in a qualitative way a set of active pedagogical
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How a SPOC might facilitate in-service teachers’ interactions in professional development Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Sabine Wollscheid, Cathrine Edelhard Tømte, Jørgen Sjaastad
Online professional development programs for teachers are much discussed. Teachers are obliged to continuously renew their skills in teaching methodology to keep pace with changing demands in society. Providing flexibility in time and space and opportunities for interaction, online courses are expected to facilitate teachers’ professional development in general. Informed by a single-case study design
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Informal acquisition of L2 English vocabulary Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Marja-Leena Niitemaa
Introduction Research has confirmed a positive relationship between participation in online out-ofschool activities and language skills in L2 English, such as vocabulary knowledge, reading, listening and writing (e.g., Brevik, 2019; Härmälä et al., 2014; Peters, 2018; Sundqvist, 2019). In Europe,the most active daily Internet users are 16–19-year-olds with a high level of formal education. The rate
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Home schooling, remote teaching and digital Bildung in societal crisis Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Rune Johan Krumsvik
We live in a time of "epistemic uncertainty" (Kay & King 2020) and where home schooling and remote teaching as a consequence of COVID-19 has become a global phenomenon in recent months By 19 March 2020, 102 countries globally had shut all schools, affecting almost 900 million children and youth (UNESCO 2020, OECD 2020) Further school shutdowns have continued from 19 March up to June 2020, involving
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Ontology, epistemology and context –and our social construction of educational technology Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Rune Johan Krumsvik
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Still a long way to go Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Marte Blikstad-Balas,Kirsti Klette
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Validating an Instrument to Measure Teachers’Preparedness to Use Digital Technology in their Teaching Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Olga Viberg,Anna Mavroudi,Mohammad Khalil,Olof Bälter
In order to effectively integrate digital technology into education, it is necessary to examine and understand teachers’ preparedness to use digital technology in education. The objective of this pilot study is to validate a self-reported instrument to measure teachers’ preparedness to use Information and Communication Technologies for learning and teaching. The survey items of the instrument are grounded
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What Undergraduate Students from Tecnologicode Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus, Learn within Digital Environments Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Oscar Mario Miranda Villanueva
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Argumentative patterns in students’online discussions in an introductory philosophy course Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Jens Breivik
Online discussions are commonly used as learning activities in higher education. One of the rationales behind their use is to enhance students’ competence in critical thinking and rational argumentation. In the research field, several approaches to critical thinking and rational argumentation are suggested, and several frameworks for analyzing online educational discussions are employed. In this article
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Beyond the myth of the “digital native” Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Carlos A. Scolari
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Promoting critical digital literacy in the leisure-time center: views and practices among Swedish leisure-time teachers Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Carolina Martinez
This article focuses on the leisure-time center (LTC) as an arena for developing critical digital literacy. The main research question concerns how Swedish leisure-time teachers (LT teachers) work to promote critical digital literacy. In addition to this, the article directs attention to one specific aspect of critical digital literacy, namely, critical understanding of Internet advertising. The second
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Digital and media literacy in pre-service teacher education Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Luca Botturi
In the age of digitalization, Digital and Media Literacy (DML) has gained increasing attention in European compulsory education, blending insights and experiences from the media education and digital literacy domains. Teacher education, starting from pre-service education, is central for the actual integration of DML education in classroom practice. This article discusses the case study of a two-credit
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Productive Disciplinary Engagement and Videogames Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Filipa de Sousa, Ingvill Rasmussen
Interactive learning environments such as videogames may facilitate learning through engagement. However, not all kinds of engagement are relevant to learning in formal education; much depends on the use of pedagogical approaches and videogames in the classroom. This study investigates a curricular unit in an upper secondary class using the commercial videogame The Walking Dead to teach ethical theories
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‘It Goes Around the World’ – Children’s Understanding of the Internet Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Sirpa Eskelä-Haapanen, Carita Kiili
The Internet has become an important literacy environment, even for children. Therefore, building the foundations for their critical engagement with online information should start when they first enter school. One way to start is to help children build an understanding about the complexities of the Internet environment. The present study aimed at increasing our knowledge about children’s understanding
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Illustrating and analysing power and control relations in Finnish one-to-one computing classrooms Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-12-20 Peter Bergström
This paper reports on teacher practices in tablet-based Finnish one-to-one computing classrooms in grades 7-9. The aim of this study was to increase the understanding of teacher practices by illust ...
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Involvement with Response Technology as Student-Centringof Language Teaching Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Even Einum
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Re-imagining literacies and literacies pedagogy in the context of semio-technologies Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Chaka Chaka
This paper seeks to explore and re-imagine the notion of literacy, by first reconceptualising it in its plural form as literacies, and second, by embedding it within the context of semio-technologies. From this basis, and employing interface theory, it contends that imagination serves as a launching pad for literacies, semio-technologies and literacies pedagogy. The paper also argues that in its plural
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Clicker Interventions at University Lectures and the Feedback Gap Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Kjetil Egelandsdal, Rune Johan Krumsvik
The article presents a mixed methods study on clicker interventions conducted in collaboration with four philosophy teachers at fourteen university lectures. The aim was to examine how feedback from the interventions were received and used by teachers and students. The data material comprises a quasi-experiment based on 6,772 student responses, student logs, a student survey and semi-structured interviews
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Nursing students’ experiences with the use of a student response system when learning physiology Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Hanne Maria Bingen, Bodil Tveit, Rune Johan Krumsvik, Simen A. Steindal
Digitisation has become a part of quality education and can help change the teacher’s role from a lecturer to a supervisor, encourage a more student-centred approach, and increase the interactivity between the teacher and the students. However, it can be challenging to facilitate more interactive pedagogy in large classes. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge about nursing students’ experience
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Digital Bildung: Norwegian Students’ Understanding of Teaching and Learning with ICT Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-11-06 Lillian Gran, Daniel Petterson, Christina Elde Mølstad
Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy er et vitenskapelig tidsskrift med apen tilgang (open access). Det vil si at det er gratis tilgjengelig for alle og finnes kun digitalt pa internett. Alle artikler publiseres i overenstemmelse med Creative Commons-lisensen CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Ulrike Hanke, Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger: Bibliotheksdidaktik: Grundlagen zur Förderung von Informationskompetenz Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Birgit Truelsen Larsen
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Children’s shared experiences of participating in digital communities Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Marina Wernholm
The aim of this study is to gain knowledge about children’s participation in digital communities and to develop a model that can be used as a tool for practitioners. The research question guiding t ...
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Information Skills of Finnish Basic and Secondary Education Students: The Role of Age, Gender, Education Level, Self-efficacy and Technology Usage Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Meri-Tuulia Kaarakainen, Loretta Saikkonen, Juho Savela
The information skills and technology use of 3,159 Finnish 12–22-year-old students were examined in this study. Data were collected using the combination of a usage habit questionnaire and a performancebased test that measured their skills when choosing a medium to seek information, defining search queries, and selecting and evaluating search results. On average, these students’ information skills
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Flipping the classroom in physiotherapy education: experiences, opportunities and challenges Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Yngve Røe, Nina B. Ødegaard, Tone Dahl-Michelsen
In higher education, resistance to shifting educational methods presents a challenge in fulfilling the opportunities offered by new methods. The purpose of the present study is to document the experiences of a flipped classroom intervention in a Norwegian physiotherapy programme, from the perspectives of the students and the teachers. The findings demonstrate that the students’ attitudes were mainly
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How different national strategies of implementing digital technology can affect teacher educators Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2019-04-10 Siri Sollied Madsen, Sara Archard, Steinar Thorvaldsen
Over ten years have passed since Norwegian educational reform implemented the use of digital tools as a required basic skill in all subjects and at all levels of Norwegian schools. However, government surveys show that there is still a significant gap between the intention of educational policies and what is actually practiced in Norwegian education. This gap has often been attributed to practitioners’
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What is the ‘problem’ that digital competence in Swedish teacher education is meant to solve? Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-10-17 Fredrik Hanell
This paper explores how policy makers argue for the importance of digital competence in Swedish teacher education. A policy analysis of key policy documents from the government and from government-affiliated organisations from the time period 2011–2016 is conducted using Carol Bacchi’s ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach. The paper critically examines underlying assumptions and particular
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Everyday Digital Schooling – implementing tablets in Norwegian primary school Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-10-17 Rune Johan Krumsvik, Erling Berrum, Lise Øen Jones
Implementation of tablets in Norwegian schools has become quite common, but we still have too little research knowledge about the learning outcome from these implementation measures. To achieve more knowledge about the topic, this trailing research examines the first cohort of Bærum municipality’s implementation of tablets in primary school. The outcome measures in the study are external for the intervention
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Teacher educators’ perceptions of working with digital technologies Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-10-17 Siri Sollied Madsen, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Sara Archard
This article is part of a research project aimed to broaden the understanding of the established gap between policies regarding the use of digital technology and the actual use of digital technology in Norway. To understand this gap we have conducted a comparative study between teacher education in Norway and teacher education in New Zealand, two countries with quite different approaches to implementing
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Personal English Learning Ecologies and MeaningfulInput with Digital and Non-Digital Artefacts Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Michel Cabot
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The Use of Learning Technologies and Student Engagement in Learning Activities Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Nina Bergdahl, Uno Fors, Patrik Hernwall, Ola Knutsson
As digitalisation spreads in education, it is vital to understand its relation to student engagement. We used student diaries and observation data to approach student engagement and explore the use ...
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Learning from New Literacies Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-06-26 Diane Hui
To address the academic and new literacies divide, this study examines the practices and perceived effects of new literacies on academic learning, specific to Asian English major undergraduate language learners. This mixed-methods study reports particularly on the statistical results of a longitudinal survey concerning students’ increasingly digital lives and positive perceptual change (p < 0.05).
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An Analysis of Participants’ Experiences fromthe First International MOOC Offered at the University of Oslo Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-03-12 Ammar Bahadur Singh,Anders I. Mørch
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Conventional classroom teaching through ICT and distance teaching Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-03-12 Anders Øgaard
Conditions for schooling in Greenland are challenging in many ways. The staff of teachers in the country is very heterogeneous: some have teacher training, but many are without, and often work with limited resources. Distance teaching could be a tool to share teaching resources and raise the quality of teaching in the many small isolated communities and settlements. This paper presents a case study
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Digital professional development: towards a collaborative learning approach for taking higher education into the digitalized age Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2018-03-12 Inger Dagrunn Langset, Dan Yngve Jacobsen, Halvdan Haugsbakken
In Norway, digital skills are defined as an essential proficiency in the national curricular plans, and learning worldwide is in many ways changed by contemporary Web 2.0 technologies. Even so, teacher training is lagging behind when it comes to developing digital learning cultures and providing digital role models for future teachers. At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), we
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Pros and Cons: Handwriting Versus Digital Writing Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy Pub Date : 2017-12-18 Dahlström Dahlström, Boström Boström
This study compares three different writing conditions – pen and paper, tablet, and tablet with access to speech synthesis – within a class of fourth graders in Sweden. The aim was to examine if th ...