THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL TOOLS IN TEACHING: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY AT A SWEDISH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Digital competence is increasingly added as a subject in school curricula, which places new demands on teachers to not only teach in the use of digital tools but also to use such in their teaching practice. This in turn requires teachers to learn these tools and then to find meaningful ways of using them in their everyday teaching. The FICTION project investigates how teachers currently use digital tools as teaching aids, but also aims to develop guidelines for what type of tools are most useful and how to best acquire the requisite skills in using these tools. The Swedish partners of FICTION have meet three times with the teachers in a local primary school, exploring what problems they meet using digital tools, the possibilities using digital tools in their occupation, their need for skill development and how they have applied several digital tools, suggested by the participating researchers, in their teaching. The focus group interviews indicate that teachers' attitudes influence both what they feel to be useful tools and how to best use them in the classroom. But we have also uncovered a need to study how teachers prepare themselves for the use of these tools.