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Entuela Capani (2023). Digital vs analog teaching tools in Swedish education. Swedish, independent work in Swedish, basic level 15 higher education credits, specialization 4–6, spring term 2023. Department of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. In the revised curriculum, the use of digital tools has been given considerable space in Swedish teaching. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how the middle school teachers design teaching by combining both digital and analog teaching aids. What perceptions do teachers have when students’ learning and meaning making takes place via digital and analog teaching aids. Associated to this, it is also investigated whether the teachers have sufficient digital skills to conduct multimodal teaching and develop student’s critical insights and understanding. To answer the study’s questions, a qualitative study based on six semi-structured teacher interviews is used. The teacher’s perceptions are analyzed based on a phenomenographic method approach where five categories of description have been crystallized. The results of the study show that the interviewed teachers vary teaching between digital and analogue teaching aids because they consider that the teaching aids complement each other. Implementation of digital tools in teaching as mediated tools is considered a major challenge for middle school teachers. The fundamental factor lies behind their digital competences and that the development of digitization is not at the same pace as these competences. New didactic methods need to be implemented to deal with the new changes that digitization has created. |
