Category: Educational ICT

Den store distraktion

Hvis vi skal kvalificere tænkningen om det digitale, tror jeg, det ville give mening at slippe panikken over toget, der snart kører (det har det snart gjort i…

Kronik: Eksperter – Der er klart forskningsmæssigt belæg for at begrænse børns skærmbrug

Der er en stor mængde forskning, som påviser negative sammenhænge mellem digitale medier, trivsel og læring. I denne kronik vil vi præsentere centrale dele, som stammer fra en…

Towards digital disconnection

The emergence of the field of digital disconnection studies could offer novel approaches to understanding the relationship between education and technology. Our hypothesis is that digital disconnection literature…

Learning to live both with and without

The report underscores the importance of learning to live both with and without digital technology; to take what is needed from an abundance of information but ignore what…

Using apps to audit their students’ moods

Their practice is very Silicon Valley–like. They preach data transparency but have none themselves,” says Jesper Balslev, a research consultant at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology,…

Pædagogisk merværdi

VISION: Infrastruktur og udstyr giver pædagogisk merværdi. Det skal bl.a være muligt at lære på anderledes og smartere måder Den digitale skole 2016-2020 – Digitaliseringsstrategi. Vejle Kommune (2016)

Referat af møde i digitaliseringspanel for dagtilbud

Der blev spurgt til formålet med at lægge indhold på Facebook, og om det var for, at forældre kan understøtte deres børns læring. Claus Berg svarede, at de…

Found to achieve less

This paper analyses the associations between computer use in schools and at home and test scores by using TIMSS data covering over 900,000 children in fourth grade. When…

Faster pace of innovation

As education becomes increasingly digitized, educators can experiment and track alternative approaches, measure and identify what works, share their findings, and replicate the best approaches in other subjects…

Tech literacy a euphemism for addictive behaviors

‘Tech Literacy’ is a euphemism for shopping, gaming, binge watching and other monetized and addictive behaviors. Wealthy, cynical power brokers like Nicolas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Lab,…

Caution is advised

Based on current evidence, it seems reasonable to conclude that internet use can have both positive and negative effects. Nevertheless, caution is advised before giving children extensive access…

Soylent-like solutions

Meaningful, impactful education is like this, too. It’s not just a matter of rote learning, of memorizing facts, or of internalizing certain routines. If anything, it’s also about…

Opportunities for industry

Companies and designers should recognize and explore children’s understanding of their well-being further in their own local contexts and design play experiences (content, stories, tasks) that reflect children’s…

A decade of unmet expectations

From 2010 to 2020, EdTech exploited two key educational myths to perfection. First, advocates for one-to-one initiatives confused learning engagement with learning gains. Sponsors of whole-school deployments of…

The Ambivalences of the Digital

The educational policy and educational science discourse on teaching, learning, and digitization is largely dominated by media education, IT (learning media) development, and quantitatively oriented empirical educational research….

Danmarks Digitaliseringsstrategi

Det starter med vores børn og unge. Ligesom de lærer at læse og regne, skal de også tidligt i livet opbygge digitale kompetencer og forståelse for digital teknologi….

Hovedperson i egen læring

Malmö högskola gør brug af et digitalt system, der målretter information til de enkelte studerende, og har derfor meget lidt fælles information på hjemmeside og intranet. Eksempelvis er…

Technically precocious boy

We examine the work that these imaginaries do for projects such as OLPC by evoking deeply held feelings about the value of (certain types of) play, creativity, and…

Særlig nordisk pædagogisk tradition

Den globale udvikling stiller nye krav til arbejdsstyrkens kompetencer, og stadigt flere lande efterspørger metoder til at uddanne selvstændige, innovative, problemløsende medarbejdere og elever. Den danske tradition for…

Solving the 2-sigma problem

Adaptive technologies seek to provide equal opportunities and fulfill student needs through hyperpersonalization (McRae, 2013). A complete mapping of student data creates complete transparency of the learner and…

10 Trillion

Since 2007, the rise of markets for teaching and learning has turned education into one of the fastest growing markets worldwide, with recent prophecies suggesting a staggering $10…

Overvejelser om eget medieforbrug

Som en del af elevernes digitale kompetencer, skal de med kritisk blik kunne anvende digitale medier. Formålet er, at eleverne bliver i stand til at forholde sig reflekteret…

Restriction as low-cost policy

We find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases post ban, by about 0.07 standard deviations on average. These increases in performance are driven by the lowest-achieving…

Analog communication tended to fail

Of the different communication channels assessed, higher frequencies of communication via ordinary mail and deposit and pick-up at school in particular were negatively associated with the outcome variables suggesting that…

Teachology

Software and social robots that are fed constant streams of data have the greatest disruption potential for teaching and learning: it’s not just technology, it’s teachology. While we…

Cannot replace personal interactions

Within a developmentally appropriate framework, digital technologies may support a range of interactions in early education settings, including those among children and those between children and teachers, their…

In principle great promise

In principle, the use of digital technology in universities holds great promise, including transforming teaching and learning practices; widening access to non-traditional learners; reducing instructional costs; improving opportunities…

Is the current use of ICT in education in Denmark warranted by Corona-evaluations?

Jesper Balslev, research consultant and Ph.D., Copenhagen School of Design and Technology Published by “Unblackthebox”, December 2021 For the last six years I have studied policy papers on…

Unreliability of autoinstructional aids

The introduction of computers, systems analysis, and various new media into education has been heralded as a panecea for for all the problems now facing our schools. The…

Skepsis i forhold til it’s konsekvenser

Lærernes holdning til it har udviklet sig betragteligt siden ICILS blev søsat i 2013. I den første undersøgelse var danske lærere blandt de mindst negative, når man sammenlignede…

Kreativitet og virkelyst

Digitale teknologier indeholder et potentiale for udfoldelse af børn, unge og voksnes kreativitet og virkelyst. Ved at sætte fokus på digitalt design og elevernes kreative processer med at…

Political symbols of policy

Laptops for students reveal a number of important ways that private technology companies have become increasingly integral parts of education systems during Covid-19. They are the recipients of…

No impact of mobile phone bans

The influential (and only quantitative) evaluation by Beland and Murphy (2016), suggests that this is a very low-cost but effective policy to improve student performance. In particular, it…

Student performance increases post ban

By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly…

Vækst igennem digitalisering

Nogle skoler og lærere arbejder allerede innovativt med digital teknologi. Der er heldigvis masser af ildsjæle derude. Men der er andre skoler, som kunne gøre mere. Generelt set…

Positioner i skærmdebatten

Dorte Ågård har udgivet “Skærme i skolen“. I den har hun to skemaer der prøver at dele de forskellige forskningspositioner op i “De digitaliseringsbegejstrede”, “Dansk Medieforskning” og “Digitaliseringskritikerne”…

The younger generation’s views

Drawing from the results of all participating European countries, it is important to emphasise that the variety of digital applications used for teaching is wide (among and within…

Homeschooling in Norway

Our key findings are that digital home schooling to a large degree consisted of students doing individual tasks, with limited support from their teachers, especially in the lowest…

Tidligt i livet

Det er afgørende, at de basale digitale kompetencer etableres tidligt i livet. Alle børn og unge, der forlader grundskolen og ungdomsuddannelser skal således have basale digitale kompetencer og…

Debat med Ole Sejer Iversen om Teknologiforståelse

I denne episode diskuterer Jesper Balslev , lektor på KEA og Ph.d. i De politiske argumenter for at digitalisere uddannelse 1983-2015 og professor i interaktionsdesign Ole Sejer Iversen…

Great moment

“It’s a great moment” for learning, says Andreas Schleicher, head of education at the OECD. “All the red tape that keeps things away is gone and people are looking for…

Glostrup kommune evaluering

• Færdighedstræning fungerer fint i onlineundervisningen, mens dannelsesopgaven og den sammenhængende og dybere faglighed generelt er mere udfordret. • Alle lærere har fået nye/flere erfaringer med digital undervisning. Alene…

The wheels of education

Despite heavy national investments and transnational advocacy, the promises of the innovative potentials of a digital transition in education have, with a few notable exceptions, remained exactly that:…

Passive attitudes, boredom, poor engagement

On the one hand, high levels of demotivation, passive attitudes, boredom, poor engagement and frustration among the students are specifically identified in this category. Examples of studies that…

Afspille musik eller læse en bageopskrift

• 79% af danske daginstitutioner anvender aktivt digitale medier i det pædagogiske arbejde. • Typisk bruger børn i danske daginstitutioner (70%) max 10 minutter dagligt på skærmaktiviteter. •…

Do not encourage critical thinking

Most of the teachers regard digital platforms for teaching as highly instrumental due to their instructional design. Instrumental teaching means that students know precisely what is expected of…

Post-abundance

This points toward drastically curtailing the energy and resource demands associated with the production and consumption of digital technologies in the pursuit of lifelong learning. The environmental costs…

Lower levels of well-being

High school students who attended school remotely reported lower levels of social, emotional, and academic well-being (ES = 0.10, 0.08, and 0.07 standard deviations, respectively) than classmates who…

Technology’s origins

Skinner is such a fascinating person … a fascinating/terrifying person.  I’ve spent the last couple of years spending way too much time thinking about behaviourism and thinking about Skinner’s…

Managed against checklists

Children without schools were risks to their own and the world’s future. The power of this knowledge to discursively render children as objects in their communities, assets to…

Always too late

…given the rapid pace of technological change, it seems shortsighted to base the education of the entire 21st century on the tools available today! Kereluik, K., Mishra, P., Fahnoe,…

Higher Ed’s Dark Secret

The proof of that is in the pudding. In general, completely online programs, especially those in the for-profit sector, have had poor earnings outcomes.11 In 2019, research by George…

Digitale ressourcer forstyrrer eleverne

27 % af lærerne i undersøgelsen er enige eller overvejende enige i, at digitale ressourcer forstyrrer eleverne , så de har svært ved at koncentrere sig. 38 %…

When deployed skillfully […] can

Digital technology, when deployed skillfully, equitably and effectively by educators, can fully support the agenda of high quality and inclusive education and training for all learners. It can…

Lærer de at vente på tur

En pædagog fortæller i denne sammenhæng, hvordan hun bruger en tablet i mindre børnegrupper, hvor børnene er sammen om en pædagogisk aktivitet, fx med fokus på genkendelse af…

Solution-centered Edtech

In an age in which EdTech has been incorporated into the circuits of capitalism, the argument that somehow public education has failed in its mission and that it…

No progress learning from home

Despite favorable conditions, we find that students made little or no progress while learning from home. Learning loss was most pronounced among students from disadvantaged homes. Per Engzell,…

Notorisk vanskeligt

Der vises overordnet set små positive effekter af de digitale læremidler (bla. på læsning og skrivning), men der må tages forbehold for, at det generelt er notorisk vanskeligt…

Is having more computers at school related to better performance?

Internet connectivity was strongly associated with mean reading performance at the system level. High-performing countries and economies tended to have more school computers (those available to 15-year-olds for educational…

Lack of motivation

This lack of motivation was linked to contextual issues which included: family obligations, e.g., looking after siblings or helping out at home or on the farm; distractions like…

Hvad det digitale ikke kan

»Det seneste halve år har jeg noteret, når der kom nye undersøgelser af, hvad man kunne lære om det digitale, mens der var lockdown. Der er nogle ting,…

Undervisning i sengen

De fleste studerende oplevede under nedlukningen i foråret 2020, at de mistede motivation ved at arbejde hjemme, og at det over tid blev sværere eksempelvis at gøre sig…

En trojansk hest?

Folkeskolen er før blevet gjort til genstand for ambitiøse, digitale interventioner. Ofte har evalueringer konkluderet, at læringsudbyttet har været tvivlsomt, at meget udstyr ender med ikke at blive…

Turning on mobile learning in europe

The second barrier to mobile learning is negative social attitudes held by policy-makers, parents and teachers about the use of mobile phones in schools. Mobile phones are widely…

Analyse af markedet for digitale læremidler på ungdomsuddannelserne

Deloitte har indsamlet en række nøgletal og informationer om størrelsen på markedet for digitale læremidler. Baseret på disse nøgletal estimeres det groft, at der anvendes i størrelsesordenen 30-60…

Økonomiske rammer for IT i skolen

Hvor mange midler har den danske stat og kommuner brugt på digitalisering af skole, dagtilbud og uddannelser (og på initiativer til IT-pædagogisk oprustning)? Herunder, løbende dokumentation: – I…

Blik på undervisning

Et centralt mål for demonstrationsskoleprojekterne var at bidrage til en omlægning af undervisningen i en mere elevaktiv, undersøgende og samarbejdende retning. I de kvantitative undersøgelser har vi undersøgt…

The shortcomings of educators

Neoliberal commentators place primary blame on the shortcomings of educators [9]. They emphasize that teachers have relatively high rates of absenteeism [10], often fail to cover their curriculum over the…

Former au numérique ou fournir de l’attention aux GAFAM?

Qu’est-ce qui caractérise le Danemark face à l’introduction du numérique?C’est l’avant-garde internationale de l’adoption des technologies d’apprentissage. Il y a plusieurs indicateurs montrant ça; notamment en 2009, le…

Urgent research priorities

The key issues arising from the mapping of commercialisation and privatisation of education in the context of Covid-19 point to a number of urgent research priorities: • Studies…

Technology Assessment in Techno-Anthropological Perspective

Article out: The Digital Potential: A Monstrous Composite? – with Søren Riis (p. 128). For 30 years or more, national governments worldwide have invested substantial funds in digital,…

Lavere end normalt

I analyse af datamaterialet tegner der sig et billede af, at læringsudbyttet af undervisningen i nedlukningen vurderes at have været lavere end normalt. I spørgeskemaundersøgelsen vurderer i alt…

Computers to generate human capital

This article has identified that the OECD elected to deal with educational technology on account of its predominant styles of reasoning, namely, that the world was increasingly beginning…

13 rapporter om virtuel undervisning under corona

I en zippet mappe, til download, 36.5 mb ITU: Sammen, hver for sig: universitets-studerendes læringsstrategier under COVID19-nedlukningen CBS: Survey of educators’ and students’ experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown …

Læringsudbyttet er mindre

Ser man på holdningen til virtuel undervisning, er der en overvægt af lærere i rundspørgen, som vurderer, at det ikke egner sig til undervisning under normale omstændigheder. Som…

Scottish reformation

In this paper we want to show how today’s trust or faith in statistical data acting as guiding instances of policy and (re-)ordering society – which thereby obviously…

Sammen, hver for sig

Som tidligere nævnt kæmpede en del studerende med at fastholde motivation og koncentration under nedlukningen, og i det følgende udfoldes to strategier for studerendes håndtering af netop denne…

Erfaringer og oplevelser med online undervisning på 9 videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner i foråret 2020

Analyse af de studerendes svar viser, at deres oplevelse af undervisningsaktiviteterne er overvejende negative. Der er dog også en del aktiviteter, hvor der er flere studerende som synes…

Fantasi, åndsfrihed, demokratisk dannelse

Værdier som fantasi, åndsfrihed og demokratisk dannelse har været under et vist pres gennem de seneste 15-20 år, hvor et fokus på kompetencetænkning, test, evaluering og målstyring har…

Ikke opmærksomme på læringspotentiale

Generelt er de studerende ikke så opmærksomme på læringspotentialet ved quizzer, og de fleste har ikke oplevet quizzer italesat på den måde før. Nogle betragter dog quizzer, der…

Potentiale for at udnytte muligheder bedre

Undersøgelsen viser eksempler på, at der er sket en markant udvikling af skolernes digitalt didaktiske beredskab. Det gælder fx den digitale kapacitet forstået som digitale platforme og læremidler…

Modstand mod at komme i gang

Der er hos en del lærere en stor modstand mod at komme i gang, og det er et praktisk problem, at der er en så markant forskellighed i…

Teknologisk usikkerhed

Tankegangen bag ITMF om, at it og medier bevidst skal anvendes som et redskab til at understøtte læringen af centrale færdigheder (fx læsning, skrivning, regning og sprog), er…

Ready-made remedy

We have no wish to denigrate or criticize online distance education, but rather, the aim of this brief editorial is twofold. First, we want to raise a series…

Algorithmic world view

The rapid shift to online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the penetration of an algorithmic world view into education systems around the world. Promoted…

Chaperone in the iPhone

Paper presented at a master class with Evan Selinger at the university of Roskilde in 2019. For the last four decades, political institutions have made a dramatic push…

Emperor’s new clothes

Our core message is that when we look at both the past and present, the technology has been a great deal like the emperor’s new clothes—while the gadgetry…

December 2020

Forsvaret i februar gik godt, salen med 130 pladser var fyldt, og der kom mange gode spørgsmål fra Neil Selwyn, Cathrine Hasse og Ernst Schraube. Er blevet glædeligt…

Eleverne er presset

Eleverne er presset, hvad angår deres sociale trivsel. Knap halvdelen siger, at de ikke føler sig glade. Næsten alle (92%) savner deres venner og kammerater og næsten lige…

Trods positive erfaringer

Til trods for at både undervisere og studerende har gjort sig positive erfaringer med online undervisning, opleves der fortsat en række kommunikative, sociale og praktiske begrænsninger i det…

Langsigtet kapacitetsopbygning

At etablere et nationalt forsknings- og videnscenter om teknologiforståelse. Videncenteret skal fremsynet koble praksisudvikling, følgeforskning og anvendt forskning i et forskningsfelt med internationalt format. Centret skal sikre et…

Risici med overload

Vi skal gentænke vigtigheden af den fysiske kontekst for at skabe den bedst mulige læringsoplevelse. Vi skal endvidere gentænke det fælles sociale liv på de højere læringsanstalter som…

Når tallene taler

Om eleverne• Der er sket et fald i elevernes faglige skoleglæde siden første kortlægning i 2015• Der sker et fald i elevernes faglige skoleglæde løbende gennem deres skoletid•…

Decline in teaching quality

The majority of educators report that the COVID-19 lockdown has caused a decline in the teaching quality and in students’ performances. At the same time, educators have spent…

Negativ udvikling

Resultaterne i figuren nedenfor indikerer en negativ udvikling i de oplevede pædagogiske effekter af de didaktiske digitale læremidler sammenlignet med 2014. Dette ses ved, at de oplevede effekter…

Report on on education in the digital era: challenges, opportunities and lessons for EU policy design

…whereas basic education in cyber hygiene, cyber safety, data protection and media literacy must be age- and development-oriented in order to help children become critical learners, active citizens,…

Our review of the evidence

…clearly demonstrates that, on average:– Online education is the fastest-growing segment of higher education and its growth is overrepresented in the for-profit sector.– A wide range of audiences…

Fjernundervisningstemperatur

Lærerne havde begrænsede forudsætninger for at gennemføre fjernundervisning. Det kan være en af årsagerne til, at omkring halvdelen af kursisterne under nedlukningen oplevede, at materialerne, undervisningen og opgaverne…

Belæg for forhåbninger

Studierne inden for tematikken om digitale læringsplatforme og elevers læring peger dog også på en række centrale udfordringer i forhold til at udnytte de potentialer, der er forbundet…

Anticipated outcomes

The last twenty years of research have shown that under appropriate conditions, information and communication technologies (ICT) can make a valuable contribution to improve educational outputs. Some of…

Music industry as potential model

New this year to the NMC Horizon Project and to the list of top challenges facing Scandinavian education is the focus on how schools can learn from the…

New pedagogies for deep learning

Global education stakeholders are working together in partnership to address a key education challenge: how educators can design and practice teaching and learning that leads to more successful…

Sleep disorders, anxiety, depression

Some of the benefits identified by researchers regarding the use of ICT are as follows (Taylor, 2012), (Shirky, 2010):  – Improves visual skills and spatial capabilities– Boosts multitasking…

We suggest blended learning etc

We suggest setting up a nationwide workforce plan in which expected needs are broken down in detail and expected necessary skills forecast. In Denmark, the public debate indicates…

Blossom to enrich our cultures

In short, we are in a position to discover learning methods and experiences that are deeply engaging, and that I am going to say easier to accomplish because…

Hidden strategies

By making an implicit demarcation between the two concepts (your) ‘data’ and (collected) ‘information’ Google can disguise the presence of a business model for online marketing and, at…

Multimodal potentiale

Forsøgsprojekterne viser således to forskellige muligheder for at øge elevernes faglige udbytte via brugen af teknologi: – Faglig inklusion: En række teknologier og organiseringsformer, der tillader elever, der…

Hvad er digitale læringsteknologier?

Der findes et stort udvalg af læringsteknologier med forskellige funktioner og anvendelsesmuligheder. De enkelte teknologiers muligheder og begrænsninger gør, at én teknologi sjældent lever op til samtlige målsætninger…

Potentialet i at formalisere videndelingen

Ekspertgruppen vurderer at der er et stort, uudnyttet potentiale i at anvende videndelingssystemerne ud over det administrative og organisatoriske niveau. […] Her vurderer ekspertgruppen at der er et…

Styrker mulighed for undervisningsdifferentiering

It styrker lærerens muligheder for at undervisningsdifferentiere og giver dermed en øget mulighed i forhold til elever med særlige behov. Undersøgelser* viser, at når digitale læringsmidler bruges som…

Potentialer i forhold til læring

Anvendelse af it og digitale læremidler har en lang række potentialer i forhold til at understøtte elevernes læring. Samtidig er det vigtigt at være opmærksom på de barrierer,…

It og digitale medier er kommet for at blive

Flere dagtilbud oplever, at digitale redskaber rummer unikke muligheder i forhold til at udvikle børnenes sans for demokrati og medbestemmelse. […] Der er dermed sket en udvikling, der…

Siloed knowledge

It is concluded that studies on flipped classrooms are dominated by studies in higher education sector and are relatively local in character. The research tends not to interact…

Klasseværelset som eksperimentarium

Nye teknologier deler en række grundlæggende fællestræk med teknologi, der ikke fungerer. […] Ved nærmere eftertanke indser man dog let, at selve potentialet for en teknologi kan være…

Potential for increased motivation

Current education reform strategies are inadequate or failing. ACOT2 assumes as its starting point that time-honored yet outmoded approaches to education and education reform must be replaced with…

Difficult to draw clear conclusions

In reviewing the included studies, it becomes clear that educational technology is not a single homogenous intervention but a broad variety of modalities, tools, and strategies for influencing…

Assessment Experiences (Brazil)

These seven dimensions of results clearly show the wide potential and diversity of the impact that digital technologies may have in the school universe. Theassessment must back projects…

Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning

How does the effectiveness of online learning compare with that of face to-face instruction? Looking only at the 27 Category 1 effects that compared a purely online condition…

Vigtige MOOC-erfaringer

Hvad er de vigtigste erfaringer efter otte år med MOOCs? I takt med at mange videregående uddannelsesinstitutioner og platforme haropsamlet erfaringer med at udvikle og udbyde MOOCs, er…

Ingen ideologisk præget modstand

Hos lærerne findes ingen ’ideologisk’ præget modstand mod at integrere IKT i undervisningen. Lærernes IKT-kompetencer er dog meget forskellige. kjeld sten iversen & carsten rønn Københavns Kommune (2016)….

Bruge teknologi kreativt og kritisk

En bedre brug af it skal også understøtte øget inklusion af elever med særlige behov i den almindelige undervisning i folkeskolen. Digitaliseringen gør det muligt at lære på…

Mindre motiverede end normalt

Det Nationale Videncenter for e-læring og Tænketanken DEA har spurgt elever på 70 ungdomsuddannelser om deres erfaringer med undervisning under Corona-krisen. Flere end 12.000 har svaret, og to…

Finger paint

Like finger paint, blocks, and beads, computers can also be used as a “material” for making things—and not just by children, but by everyone. Indeed, the computer is…

Blufærdighed

Lærerne og lederne vurderer, at der er markante kulturelle barrierer for en øget systematisk anvendelse af digitale redskaber i undervisningen. De kulturelle barrierer er knyttet til lærernes usikkerhed…

Digitalisering løser ikke sektorens problemer

Lærere og elever yder en kæmpe indsats for at få tingene til at lykkes så godt som muligt med nødundervisning og gradvis genåbning af skolerne. Meget er lykkedes…

Tid til at stoppe op

Vi har drevet den digitale udvikling frem i bedste mening. Vi har gjort investeringerne i en tro på fremskridtet, og vi har villet det bedste for vores børn….

Demonstrationsskole-forsøgene

Projekterne viser samtidig en umiddelbart overraskende sammenhæng mellem læreres negative holdning til it og innovativ undervisning. En lærer, som er skeptisk over for it, underviser mere innovativt end…

Implementering af digitale læringsplatforme

Folkeskolen er i gang med en digital omstilling, hvor der i stigende grad anvendes digitale løsninger. I forlængelse af folkeskolereformen har KL og staten indgået en aftale om…

Unesco and new techniques in education

The present crisis in education shows that attempts to meet the demand by linear expansion are financially illusory and pedagogically outdated. In the years to come the human…

Where is the theory?

Critics often characterise the study of educational technology as under-theorised. To test this assertion and to determine the extent of this criticism, the present paper reports an in-depth…

20 years of EdTech

…edtech has frequently failed to address the social impact of advocating for or implementing a technology beyond the higher education sector. MOOCs, learning analytics, AI, social media—the widespread…

Le discours educapital

On peut resumer celle-ci en quelques points, qui se retrouvent en filigrane dans la plupart des discours des marchands d’éducation, articulant dogme libéral et neutralisation de toute forme…

Towards the learning society

The information society, notwithstanding the new knowledge techniques it heralds, raises the question of whether the educational content it carries will enhance or, on the contrary, diminish the…

Well-established potential

Mobile devices are often banned from schools and other centres of education, despite considerable and, in many instances, well-established potential to enhance learning. Such bans project a view…

Is it any different this time?

Enter information and communication technologies: compact discs and CD-ROMs, videodiscs, microcomputer-based laboratories, the Internet, virtual reality, local and wide area networks, instructional software, Macs, PCs, laptops, notebooks, educational…

Bâtir une école créative et juste dans un monde numérique

Le numérique n’est pas un moyen pour les savants ou les apprenants : il constitue le nouveau milieu mnémotechnique du savoir sous toutes ses formes, au sein duquel…

Lagging behind the promise

This analysis shows that the reality in our schools lags considerably behind the promise of technology. In 2012, 96% of 15-year-old students in OECD countries reported that they…

Assessing the effects of ICT in education

Despite the fact that education systems have been heavily investing in technology since the early 1980s, international indicators on technology uptake and use in education are missing. This…

Fair amount of uncertainty

It is generally believed that ICTs can empower teachers and learners and that their overall impact is positive. There is, however, little scientific evidence of the concrete contribution…

Digitalisering kan bidrage til øget kvalitet

– Nitten ud af tyve lærere i undersøgelsen mener, at øget brug af it, digitale læremidler og digitale redskaber kan bidrage til, at skolen udfordrer alle elever, så…

Kina omfavner ny undervisningsteknologi

Kina er præget af en stor teknologiparathed, som skinner igennem på det enorme marked for e-commerce og på det store antal apps, der findes til enhver tænkelig service…

Anvendelse af digitale læremidler effektmåling

Det skal her nævnes, at der særligt er tre vigtige forbehold, som analysens resultater skal ses i lyset af: 1: Der måles på oplevet effekt, ikke reel effekt….

IT i Folkeskolen

It skal være et fremherskende pædagogisk værktøj i den danske folkeskole, og eleverne skal bruge computeren som et personligt redskab, hvor de kan lære med de værktøjer, de…

Den pædagogiske effekt af ITiF-læremidlerne

Undersøgelsen af læremidlerne og deres anvendelse i udvalgte klasser peger på en række potentialer, som der i praksis åbnes mere eller mindre for på skolerne ved den aktuelle…

Delrapport 1 (EMU)

Lærerne oplevede især, at platformen medførte en standardiseret tilgang til undervisning, fordi den var designet ud fra best practice-eksempler. Snarere end at understøtte professionel frihed og dømmekraft oplevede…

Bred anerkendelse

Der er bred anerkendelse af, at menneskers optimale måde at lære på er meget forskellige, men i den danske skoleverden kniber det med at anvende it til at…

Three common myths about digital ICT in education

Myth 1: Providing schools with ICT is enough to improve education There is little evidence to sustain that investments in digital technologies have significant returns in teachers transforming…

What’s the matter with ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’?

In most instances, when we speak of ‘technology enhanced learning’ we are in fact referring to technology enhanced teaching, and to institutional goals, rather than to the aims…

The emperor’s new clothes

The purpose of this paper is to add to the growing volume of work which adopts critical stance towards the new media afforded by ICTs. In particular we…

Media literacy or media addiction?

As more and more new technologies get introduced into educational institutions at an earlier age, today’s research efforts indeed fail to meet a number of sound research criteria:…

ICT in education: fundamental problems and practical recommendations

 This paper critically explores the intended and unintended consequences of ICT in education. Research across the sciences has found that ICT is neither benign nor neutral in its…

Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education

While there are many reasons to remain optimistic about new initiatives to transform the learning process, it must be acknowledged that, first, traditional exam results and, indeed, possession…

A Resource for Future Pedagogies

This review shows that much of the literature supports the use of the IWBs, but does so on very flimsy evidence. The more rigorous studies that have been…

Selling tech to teachers: education trade shows as policy events

Digital technology is an expanding area of education policy. There is growing interest, therefore, in how networks of corporate and state policy actors implicit in the formation of…

Video-conferencing fatigue

A friend made me aware of these two articles that try to explain reasons for the very special, and peculiar fatigue one can feel after video-conferencing. A Theory…

Realising the potential of technology in education

Yet all too often technology initiatives have failed to deliver value for money and, crucially, failed to have a positive impact. We know that not all education settings…

Rådgivningsgruppe for digital læring

En række eksperter i teknologiens muligheder og samfundspåvirkning skal som medlemmer af en ny rådgivningsgruppe sparre med undervisningsminister Merete Riisager om en langsigtet handlingsplan for digital læring. Første…

What are teachers worried about?

What are teachers worried about in students? • 84% believe that digital technologies are a growing distraction in the learning environment. More than nine of ten educators think…

Evidence of a potential, Ph.D. thesis

Abstract: Along with the popularization of digital technologies in education from the early 1980s, there has been a practice of evaluating the effects of educational technology on educational…

Acting on the belief

The meaningful question isn’t whether these technologies work as advertised. It’s whether someone believes that they do, and acts on that belief. Adam Greenfield Quoted in Selwyn, N….

On reflection

What this eclectic selection of passages essentially conveys is a conceptualization of reflection as a mode of thought that entails mulling over ideas that have no necessary connection…

Reticence bordering on fear

Controversial impact

How should policy-makers decide whether computer education will achieve the particular objectives they have in mind? This study reviews a number of analyses that have already been done…

Human dignity

The same problem arises in relation to the information society. The ‘information highways’ to which young people and even children will have increasingly easier access, could well find…

Digital Literacy

Recalling key tenets of theoretical debates about the term, I traced a gradual expansion of the concept’s range of address from reading and writing skills via communication in…

Those who cannot remember the past

To paraphrase the dictum of George Santayana: those who cannot remember the past, should definitely consider the opportunities in educational technology. Langdon winner Winner, L. (2009). Information technology…

Educational amnesia

An accomplice for the continuing amnesia about the history of education is, surprisingly enough, educational research itself. Instead of asking – What do children need? What are our…

Incuriosity

On the other hand, while this is a field that likes to talk continuously about learning, it is striking how little of substance is said on the topic….

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Startled animals

I repeatedly noticed how hard it was for me to observe absence-in-class during group work: As soon as I left my position at the back of the classroom…

Forløbet bobler med potentialer

Forløbet giver kun mening i det digitale mediemiljø og kan kun gennemføres i det digitale mediemiljø. De forskellige former for praksis, angår alle det digitale, og er hertil…

Inscriptions

…curriculum reform programs, including reports, curriculum and pedagogical guidance, manifestoes, pamphlets, articles, and essays, as well as websites, infographics, diagrams, interactive devices, and other multimedia. These ‘inscriptions’ are…

Kritik af den digitale fornuft

April 2018 Kritik af den digitale fornuft i uddannelse handler om digitaliseringen af vores samfund, som den har udfoldet sig i de seneste årtier især inden for uddannelsesområdet. Bogen…

Unlikely

The implications from these findings suggest that we should not expect large positive (or negative) impacts from ICT investments in schools or computers at home. Schools should not…

Edb-teknologi og datalære, 1972

De sidste 15 års teknologiske udvikling inden for edb kan karakteriseres som særdeles markant; det gælder såvel materiel som programmel. Det ses bl.a. af udviklingen i antallet af…

AIed

Based on the combination of these models with data analytics and machine learning processes, Pearson’s proposed vision of AIed includes the development of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) which…

Impact on learning

Yet achieving any degree of confidence or certainty over a discernable ‘cause-and-effect’ relationship between technology and learning is nigh on impossible. Put simply, it has proved tremendously difficult…

Lars Qvortrup 1983

“Hvis der skal udvikles datamatformidlede og datamatunderstøttende undervisningssystemer – og som sagt er de nationale demografiske argumenter herfor ikke stærke – så må minimumskravet være, at der etableres et udviklingsarbejde, hvor det er udviklingspsykologer, dannelsesteoretiekre, uddannelsessociologer, der fører det store ord, og hvor der hele tiden sikres en brugerdialog – med pædagoger og elever – med indbygget vetoret.