What did you REALLY learn in school today?!

In the curriculum Kunnskapsløftet you can read that one of the five basic skills, is that the pupil must have digital competence. It looks like this is a tremendous challenge for schools today.

Digital tools in school

As you can see in this video, pupils finds it natural to use the digital tools that they are surrounded with ever day. The teachers has the responsibility to convey the subjects of learning in a way that brings all the pupils to achieve understanding. Hopefully, using the digital tools, will reach more of the pupils. The school of today is extremly theoretically based, and a lot of children will welcome the computers in the classroom. The reason is that the youth are familiar with computers, and many of the pupils wants a diversion from the theoretically teaching. They also see the value of the computers as a digital tool which make their work more effectiv.

What kind of digital tools are appropriate to present for the pupils? First of all, it is an enormous number of tools to choose between. If we look for something that can be used in general, my first thought is mindmap

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The mindmap helps to structure and organize all the information the pupil has around a theme. They also will take advantage to the mindmap when they have to practice for a test.


If you are teaching older pupils, it could turn into a big success to use social medias in the classroom. A lot of pupils have their own profile on Facebook. This is an arena where they feel comfortable and "at home". An idea for the Norwegian class could be to challenge the youth making their own poems and publish in the Facebook area which is organized for the group. Or they may find a poem or a text which means a lot for them and publish it on the Facebook wall. Of course one of the tasks is to write and tell why they like this so much. 


In my opinion schools owe the pupils to take ICT seriously. Digital skills is one of the five basic skills and if they don´t get to use this wonderful tool in their education, they are getting fooled by the school system. The teachers and the school owners has to take the responsibillity and ensure that the pupils gets what they are entitled to!