LESSONS LEARNED FROM A NORWEGIAN ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING CLASS

ICT and teaching in learning is a university course situated between classical pedagogy strategies, theory about society, active learning, school development and a broad palette of newer media technologies, including e.g social media, games and drones. The course have been held once, in the winter semester 2016 at NTNU, Trondheim Norway.

The goal of the course is to make future teachers responsible, realistic, autonomous and safe regarding technology as well as pedagogy and society.

In this paper, a diagnosis of the modern world is sketched, and media technology is an important part of both the problem and the solution.

The problems:
1. Media culture is increasingly individualized. At the same time, new media contributes to overloading society with somewhat high quality information from professionals and elite.
2. New digital and social media gave a promise of user production and autonomy, but the youth of today experience a cognitive and cultural saturation.

Education should not only underpin more production and various types of communication, but also to create positive and social (digital) meeting space, room and opportunity for autonomous media expression for the young.

This paper discuss how this course have fulfilled these goals after its initiation, the lessons learned and road ahead for teaching, concerning the two problems outlined above.