Course content

Professional digital competences will qualify the students to use digital learning- and teaching strategies in a didactical context. The course content consists of workshops with various media and different technological modes to teaching, including theory and discussions about what it means to be a child/adolescent in a digital age. The course content is divided into three central themes:

• learning areas and didactics in a digital age
• rooms for learning in a digital context
• the teacher as a mediator in formal and informal learning situations

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The student

• has broad knowledge about how societal digital development expands and transforms the school’s learning areas, content, working methods, and forms of assessment
• has broad knowledge about digital areas that provide possibilities for, and at the same time challenges, participation in democratic and cultural processes
• has broad knowledge about communication, target-group assessment, and audience awareness in a digital age
• has knowledge of digital skills as a pedagogical concept both contemporary and historically as well as the place and uniqueness of digital technologies in society
• has broad knowledge of research and development work as well as theory of the use of digital technology in an educational and didactic context

Skills

The student

• can work with digital and multimodal strategies in a didactical context
• can apply professional knowledge and relevant results from research and development work on practical and theoretical issues and make reasoned choices
• can carry out teaching and learning in digital environments which promotes subject disciplinary, creative, and social learning processes
• can carry out an original and scoped development project according to current standards in research ethics

General competence

The student

• has insight into relevant subject disciplinary, professional, and research ethical issues
• can communicate key subject matter such as theories, issues and solutions in writing, orally, and through other relevant forms of expression
• knows about innovation processes when it comes to the use of digital technology in school contexts
• can exchange views and experiences with others with a background in educational use of digital technology and thereby contribute to the development of good practice
• can contribute to critique and developmental work of, and within, general subject didactics through the application of professional digital competence

Learning methods and activities

• Workshops and group-work with media and technological modes to learning
• Carry out a lesson plan with the aid of digital strategies, including presentation related to own lesson plan
• Written task with analysis of own lesson plan related to PDC
• Response to peer-students

Compulsory assignments

• Colloquium meetings documented through a letter of reflection
• Implement teaching project
• Presentation of teaching project

Further on evaluation

Completion of obligatory activities assumes that the student participates in the course:

a) Three study group meetings where theory is discussed, documented, and shared through a reflection paper

b) Carry out a lesson plan with the aid of digital learning- and teaching strategies in a didactical context

c) Approved presentation related to the completion of own lesson plan

Completion of the compulsory activities take for granted that the student participates in the lessons.

The exam consists of a written multimodal academic text relating to the work requirements a) and b) as well as theory discussed in a)