Browsing by Author "Pölhö, Elli-Sofia"

Continuing improvement of information and communication technology has an effect on all aspects of society and people’s everyday life. As a consequence of the corona pandemic and its effects, the role of technology as an enabler of operations became more emphasized. Therefore, we had to find new ways of giving home economic education and sharing home economic information. Information and communication technology was used in the operation. Some of the communication methods have already been replaced but some of them are still in use. This thesis studies how information and communication technology can be used in home economic information. It also studies how these methods can be used when creating virtual and informal learning environments for home economics education in the future. This thesis is written as a part of research project of University of Helsinki. The project focuses on distant and hybrid teaching methods of home economics. The research was conducted as a qualitative study. The research material was collected with half-structured interviews. There were seven participants in this study. The interviewees worked for companies or organizations, or as knowledge specialists. They all do home economic communication as a part of their jobs. Information and communication technology is utilized in a various ways in home economic information. Agents have different ways to use technology and multimedia tools and applications to produce content for various social media channels. The process from planning to filming is completed either alone or with colleagues or a team. The best experiences are from interactive, nonformal teaching sessions which were also humorous and instructive. Some of the methods that were studied in this research have already been used in home economic teaching. Instead, filming with a multi-camera system or co-working with a technology specialist are methods that are used among interviewees but not yet utilized in home economic teaching at schools. The use of these methods require further research before they can be extensively utilized in education.