DIGITAL KOMPETENS Forsknings profilomrde

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DIGITAL KOMPETENSForsknings profilområde
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• Information society,
• communication age,
• knowledge society,
• network society, digital age, internet society,
• conceptual age.

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The Knowledge Society

• is changing the ways in which we communicate,
  define borders, define knowledge, define
  citizenship, and shape our social institutions
  (European Commission, 2004 Information Society
  Commission, 2002 UNESCO, 2002).

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Learning and knowledge development in the global
age

• Key competencies for learning and work
• interacting in social heterogeneous group
• acting autonomously
• using tools interactively
• digital Competence
• communication skills

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Key Competencies for Life Long Learning

• Communication in the mother tongue
• Communication in the foreign languages
• Mathematical competence and basic competences in
  science and technology
• Digital competence
• Learning to learn
• Interpersonal, intercultural and social
  competences and civic competence
• Entrepreneurship
• Cultural expression. EU Commission on
  Education, Eu Parliment 2006

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International Society for Technology in Education

• 1) basic computer/technology operations and
  concepts
• 2) personal and professional use of technology
• 3) application of technology in instruction.

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Five benchmarks for teacher education in ICT

• 1) personal ICT competencies,
• 2) ICT as a mindtool,
• 3) educational/pedagogical use of ICT,
• 4) ICT as a tool for teaching, and
• 5) social aspects of ICT use in education
• Kirschner and Davis (2003)

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The research field ICT and Learning

• Technology to support learning (Koschmann, 1996),
  
• Flexible learning models (Sorensen Ó Murchu,
  2004).
• E-learning (Garrison Andersson, 2003),
• Network learning (Schlais Davis, 2001)
• Open learning systems (Unesco, 2002)
• Community-oriented theories of teaching and
  learning (Harasim, 1989 Sorensen and Takle,
  2002),
• Methodologists structure online learning
  activities (Palloff and Pratt, 1999 Salmon
  2000).

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Digital Competence Research Profile area includes

• IT as a technological perspective
• flexible learning as a pedagogical perspective
• digital culture as a human communication and
  culture perspective.

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Digital Competence

• ICT skills comprise the use of multi-media
  technology to retrieve, assess, store, produce,
  present and exchange information, and communicate
  and participate in networks via the Internet
  (European Commission, 2004).

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The many functions of ICT

• ICT as a pedagogical tool
• ICTs roll in a social context
• ICTs roll in society
• ICT as tool for competence development
• ICT as an administrative tool

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Research Studies in Digital Competence aim to.

• generate an increased understanding about the
  knowledge and skills in using Information Society
  Technologies (IST), as well as the more
  value-laden aspects of attitudes and ethics in
  the digital technologies.
• contribute to a holistic understanding of IT in
  education, which influences pedagogy, didactics,
  organizational systems and culture of teaching
  and learning.

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ProjectsNational and International

• Beyond Distance Research Alliance
• European eLearning Forum for Education (ELFE)
• Flexibelt Lärande och Pedagogiska Ledarskap
• ECHOES
• Vardagskommunikation Skola-Hem I and II
• Flexible Learning and International Social
  Networks
• LingoNet
• Internet Language Group
• IT Utveckling i Sundsvalls Kommun Skolor

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Ongoing and under development

• LäSa Web-based support for students with special
  learning needs
• Teacher communication strategies and
  collaborative learning
• Digital Culture as pedagogical transformation
• ELFE Project 2
• 7e ramen International Partnership
• KK Stiftelsen IT in teacher traning
• Second Life

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Participating personnel and Research Partners

• Kristen Snyder, coordinator
• Ola Lindberg, UTV
• Mats Deutschman, HUM-FORUM
• Karin Orving, UTV
• Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund, ITM
• Olof Nilsson, ITM
• Ulrika Danielsson, ITM
• Jimmy Jaldemark, UTV
• Maria Rasmusson, UTV
• Gunnel Fredriksson, UTV
• Susanne Sahlin, UTV
• Britt Englund, FORUM

• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, England
• Nanjing University China
• MIT University, USA
• Umeå University
• KK Stiftelesen Network
• Greenwhich London
• Växjö-Karlstad
• Nättuniversitet
• Malmö-Stockholm
• Luleå
• Herzen Pedagogical University, Russia