Är medieelevens datorkunskaper likvärdiga medielärarens? : En självskattning från lärarens och elevens perspektiv

Sammanfattning: The aim of this essay is to get knowledge and to evaluate if the media student has equal or evenbetter knowledge of information technology (IT) than his/her teacher. Today the student of IToften has knowledge of hard ware and soft ware sometimes even unknown to the teacher. Themain reason for this might be that IT hitherto has played no prominent part at the institutes ofteacher education. Continuing further education of IT for teachers is also eligible as IT still is arather new subject on the time table.To adopt an empiric approach to the problem I have used trough interviewing and questions bothteachers and students at two upper secondary schools in the province of Värmland. The schoolsare called “A” and “B” in my investigation.Does the teacher have enough knowledge to give the student relevant knowledge concerninghard ware as well as soft ware to handle the computer and to utilize its possibilities? How can theteacher act to comply with the students’ claims and demands?IT-knowledge can be expressed in a complicated way but I have limited my investigation to therole of the teacher and how he/she manages to teach and instruct concerning a selected numberof soft ware and how the students evaluate their own knowledge compared to that of the teacher.My investigation shows that the teachers consider their knowledge relevant for their task asinstructors and teachers. This especially distinguished school “A” where the combination of onesenior teacher and two more recently examined teatchers have the most recent and updatedknowledge. The senior teacher renews all the time while his younger colleagues have updatedand new knowledge from their studies.The teachers of school “B” are more submissive regarding their own knowledge as well as thatof their students. Six teachers were interviewed and three of them considered the studentssometimes to be more competent than themselves. Those teachers also rely on the ITdepartementof the school, their colleagues and the students and their self instructions.My investigation shows that five part of the teachers consider their IT-knowledge relevant fortheir task as an instructor, while four part of the teachers consider the student’s knowledge oftenand sometimes to be superior to their own.