Professional digital competence for school

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

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

• 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