Gymnasieelevers upplevelser av digitala läromedel i svenskundervisning

Sammanfattning: The Swedish upper secondary school is becoming more digitalized, and the use of digital teaching materials is being questioned and debated by many, including the Swedish school minister. Therefore, with this study, we aim to investigate how upper secondary students experience the use of digital teaching materials in the subject of Swedish. We also aim to study the challenges and possibilities students are experiencing connected to the use of digital teaching material. The theoretical framework of this study investigates the students’ experiences with a phenomenological approach with the theoretical concepts ”digital literacy” and ”spatial stability”. Seven upper secondary students participated in semi-structured interviews, then a thematic analysis was conducted. The findings of the study show that upper secondary students have varied experiences with digital teaching material, and that digital teaching material has both positive and negative implications. In the study, it became evident that both the students and the digital teaching material is engaged in, and interacting within a digital ecology. This digital ecology is created and navigated by the teacher, which furthermore could lead to challenges for the students’ digital literacy development. Some students are also experiencing spatial instability due to the teaching material’s fragmentary form. Lastly, the study shows that while working with digital teaching material, students sometimes experience challenges with digital distractions. Some students have developed a strategy of ”digital pauses” to encounter these distractions.