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Up on a Straight Line?ICT Skill Development of
Icelandic Students
Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, [email protected] University of Education
Presentation at Ed-Media, Orlando, June 29th 2006Research supported by the Icelandic Research Council, part of larger project called NamUST (LearnICT), http://namust.khi.is
This presentation
• Introduction and background
• Method and focus
• Results
• Discussion, further thoughts
ICT-related skills?
• ICT = information and communications technology
• 90’s, race in Western countries –curriculum, policy, computers & Internet in schools, top-down
• Vital for countries, communities, individuals?
We as educators want...?
Students to...• Become literate – (also new types of literacy –
computer, IT, culture... ; Icelandic national curriculum describes further)?
• Be able to use computers and ICT for the benefit of themselves and others in communications, collaboration, creative work, in learning, work, play..?
• Become better and more active citizens in a democratic society?
• Be confident, critical, positive?• Don’t suffer from problems related to computer use
(physical problems, social isolation, Internet or game addiction)?
What do we know ...?
• New curriculum and policies call for ICT skills
• Those skills are not assessed very well in the school system
• Too little is known about how those skills are developing
Studies*Distributed research
1998* 2002* 2004
Grad. s’s 10 17 1
Schools 10 14 7
Grades5-10: 11+
9:1 13.:1 7:0
City:rural 5:5 9:5 4:3
Total part.’s 761 1402 334
Gr. 7-10 557 (73%) 797 (57%) 325 (97%)
% gr. 7-8 32% 62% 62%
Studies - participants
178
493
202
379
304
123
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
1998 2002 2004
Year
Num
ber
of s
tude
nts
Grade 7 to 8
Grade 9 to 10
Survey based on idea of computer culture
Society
Homes, family Community, school
Computer use, skills, attitudes, problems.. group differences e.g. gender,.?
Students (age, experience, ability)
Computers and access
Social factors Software, learning materials
Teachers, teaching methods, computer implementation
See SJ doctoral thesis http://soljak.khi.is/thesisvef
This paper/presentation
• How are ICT-related skills of students developing?
• Related attitudes?• Related problems?• Divide in use between
homes and schools?
Results
Skills
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Computer-related skills
% w
ho
say
the
kn
ow h
ow t
o
1998
2002
2004
Skills
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
Year
Mea
n n
o. o
f IC
T r
elat
ed s
kil
ls
Total
Gr. 7-8 (F)
Gr. 9-10 (F)
Gr. 7-8 (M)
Gr. 9-10 (M)
Linear (Total)
Linear (Gr. 7-8(F))Linear (Gr. 9-10 (F))Linear (Gr. 7-8(M))Linear (Gr. 9-10 (M))
Attitudes (grades 7-10) scale 1-5 (5=most positive)
1
2
3
4
5
..don
't like
using
..imp.
for f
uture
..nec
essa
ry to
ols
fun t
o try
new th
ings
..exc
iting
to us
e
Time t
hat i
t tak
es to
feel
good
fun t
o use
for s
th us
eful
often
feel
unco
mforta
ble at
first
diffic
ult to
unde
rtand
tech
nic.
very
clev
er at
usin
g
..too m
uch u
se ba
d phy
sic. e
ff.
..too m
uch u
se ba
d soc
ial ef
f.
Viðhorf
Mea
n 1998
2002
2004
Attitudes – confidence(scale 1-5, 5= most positive)
2,72,4
3,12,9
3,3 3,23,5 3,6 3,6
3,84 3,9
1
2
3
4
5
7.-8. 9.-10. 7.-8. 9.-10. 7.-8. 9.-10.
1998 2002 2004
Groups
Cle
ver/
good
at u
sing
com
pute
rs?
Girls
Boys
(Pain in the ass) & other problems (% who say considerable/big problem, grades 7-10, 2004)
20
23
12
32
47
8
9
4
13
10
15
13
10
22
19
24
9
6
6
15
18
41
0 10 20 30 40 50
Back
Hands/wrists
Elbows/arms
Shoulders/neck
Eyes
Head
Teasing/meanness
Sexualharrassment
Online fraud
Too much timeonline/negatively
Spend too muchtime on games on
Phys
ical
Soci
al
Boys
Girls
Main problem?Individual: youngerless, older girls most
Technical, oldergirls least
Personal protectionolder girls most
Type of swand social pgirls more
Problems, individual (too much use/addiction?; negative feelings;
lack of knowledge, 23% of answers)• ”one has been using it [the computer] through the night and cannot wake up
the following day and oversleeps or comes really fowl to the school the day after and learns less at home (girl grade 9, school R1).
• Just one comes a little hooked• difficult to survive without a computer when one has been a computer addict
for 4 years! (girl grade 7, school R3)• spend too much time for computers and forgot to learn or rather use
computers than do that and because I use msn too often far into the night, wake upp really tired and then that does not have good consequences for the family or my study (girl grade 9, school R2
• The addiction, one gets far too hooked on this! (girl grade 9, school R2)• You get hooked on CM just like nicotin but just fun and good for you (CM
03-04) (boy grade 8, L1)• Cannot stop (boy grade 7, school R1).• One becomes a robot (boy grade 7, school R1)• It is fun in my computer I love it enormously and I would be ready to kill
anyone for the cause and og go like a virgin towards the bill of rights! (boy grade 9, school R2)
Problems, individual..• After having spent half an hour in the computer a guilty feeling
forms, .... (boy, grade 10, school L1)
• I hate everyone and everyone are terribly mean and I hate everyone. My only friend is the computer and the players in counter strike (boy grade 9, school R2
• That is that some people become so violent from being in the computer (boy, grade 7, school R2)
• not to know [how to do?] something (boy, grade 9, school R3)• Sometimes I don’t quite understand because it is in English (girl,
grade 7, school L1)• One looses or destroys sometimes important data and cannot find
them again (girl, grade 9, school L3)
Problems, technical (21%)
• Viruses (in 10%), computers froze (5%) or were slow (4%), environment complicated (1%) or some other computer problems (3%)
• Older girls least bothered
Problems, personal protection (14%)
• others are getting to know people that are really pervert... child molesters that is.... computers are dangerous (girl, grade 9, school L3)
• that my friend had the experience that she was added to some MSN of some boy... then it turned out that this was a 56 year old man that was a child molester and he was stealing pictures of her and showing them to her... (and she had never seen him or talked with him) he had broken into her computer and got a lot of pictures of her that she had never seen......this I find is a big disadvantage of using the Internet and also sometimes porn sites og something like that pop up when one is trying to go to a completely different site....and also one should not give their name and such (girl, grade 9, school R1)
• that child molesters can seduce children and that hackers can destroy other... (boy, grade 7, school R3)
• that it is possible to send out everything about anyone which can cause bullying on the net (boy, grade 8, school L2)
• that people can get your e-mail from everywhere (girl, grade 8, school L2).• somecan get into application that we are using so it is unpleasant that
others can look at things one is doing!! (girl, grade 8, school L1)
Problems, others
• Type of software (11%), girls mention MSN and blog, a few boys games
• Social problems (10%) – e.g. girls talk about others writing something bad or untrue about them on the web or MSN, one even mentioned ”fake love” – a boy friend on the net that was just bluffing
• Content (7%) some mention porn (none of the older boys) but especially boys mention adware, popup windows and/or spyware (”THESE BL. VIRUSES AND AD-WINDOWS AND ALL THIS SPYWARES AND ADWARES OF COURSE) I SAY ONCE AND FOR ALL WWW.BULLGUARD.COM&PANICWARE.COM (’GOOD TOGETHER’) (boy, grade 9, school L3)
• Physical problems (3%) • Cost (1%)
Computer use, home+school
64
21 24
72
40
27
7 3 0 09
73
50
32
145 5
32 34
21
102 2 1 1 3 4
01020304050607080
Com
pute
r
Web
Cha
t
E-m
ail
Web
con
f.
Blo
g
Net
-gam
es
Com
p./v
id.
Com
pute
r
Web
Cha
t
E-m
ail
Web
con
f.
Blo
g
Net
-gam
es
Com
p./v
id.
Home School
Computer use of different types grades 9 to 10
% s
em s
egis
t not
a a.
m.k
. 2 tí
ma
1998
2002
2004
% in
dica
ting
2+ h
ours
per
w
eek
Computer use, home
0102030405060708090
100110
Tölvunotkun heima, fj. tíma/viku
% s
túlk
na 1998
2002
2004
6
30 30
13
20
4
24 25
16
106
15
2
23 24
17
12
5
18
0
10
20
30
40
Enga < 2 2-5 6-9 10-15*
16-20 21+
Tölvunotkun heima, tímafj./viku
Svar
hlut
fall
(%)
1998
2002
2004
Correlations
• In 1998 the highest correlation of total number of skills both among girls and boys was with home factors (in addition to confidence), especially the number of types of software students used at homes. School effects were minimal.
• In 2002 and 2004 a more complex picture emerges. But confidence remains an important factor linked with number of skills.
Discussion
Limitations of study
• E.g.
• Skills list very limited – (number of skills, how well they know, do they really know what the say they know or don’t know what they say they don’t know...) – gives just an indication
Digital divide?
• Gender differences in some way decreasing in terms of number of skills and confidence – however, gender differences still exist (e.g. amount of home use, and game use vs. communications)
• But there is a digital divide between home and school (and likely between students and teachers)
Iceland in the global context
(Mind)tool vs. medium?
• Everything is relative,
• Really vast changes in tools for the past two decades – compared to changes during the two hundred years 1785 to 1985 (bark, chalk, pencils/pens)
• Now, mobility of computers.../becoming personal items rather than medium delivering content
Life style changes
The third wave
• “What is inescapably clear, however, whatever we choose to believe, is that we are altering our info-sphere fundamentally. We are not merely de-massifying the Second Wave media, we are adding whole new strata of communication to the social system. The emerging Third Wave info-sphere makes that of the Second Wave era – dominated by its mass media, the post office, and the telephone – seem hopelessly prmitive by contrast.”
(Alvin Toffler, 1980, The Third Wave p. 183)
Life was saltfish Is life now Internet?
Mynd fengin frá: http://enacit1.epfl.ch/internet.gif
School computer culture
• Teaching and using ICT skills?
Fishing culture in schools?
http://www.heimsnet.is/iceship/hsmyndir/Kaupskip/Onnur/company/slyso.html