ICT in schools - the Swedish experience

Peter Karlbergpeter.karlberg@skolverket.seChristina Szekelychristina.szekely@skolverket.seDirector of Education

Swedish National Agency for Education

ICT in schools

Our mission

• support the use and development of ict in schools• support in-service training• monitor developments (intelligence)• have dialog with relevant actors, nationally ind

internationally• support safe and critical use of ict in schools• promote the use of digital learning resources

ICT in schools - the Swedish experience

Currently– New curricula for compulsary and

upper secondary• new syllabi for all subjects/cources

– Digital competence included

National curricula - fundamental values and tasks

Pupils should be able to keep their bearings in a complex reality, where there is a vast flow of information and where the rate of change is rapid.

This is the reason that studying skills and methods of acquiring and using new knowledge is important.

It is also necessary that pupils develop their ability to critically examine facts and relationships, and appreciate the consequences of different alternatives.

National curricula - overall goals and guidelines

The school is responsible for ensuring that each pupil on completing compulsory school:

can use modern technology as a tool in the search for knowledge, communication, creativity and learning

ICT in schools - the Swedish experience

The use of ICT and ICT competence

Follow up studies every third year of the ICT-use and the ICT-competence in pre-school, compulsary school and adult education

– results published 2009/2010– new surveys planned for late 2012, results will be

published in april 2013

Teachers access to computers

Students use of ICT

Students are very self confident• good or very good in using ICT

Students use ICT • in Swedish and Social science• not in math (9 out of 10 rarely or

never)• search/retrieve information and write

texts

One computer per child (1-1)

In August 2012 202 out of 280 municipalities

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