Browsing by Author "Paavola, Liisa"

Goals. The main object of this study is to examine if the reasoning skills or self-evaluated self-efficacy are in association with to ICT skills and tablet usage skills and examine the role of the sex in these processes. Furthermore, the goal of this study is to find the explanatory factors to the ICT skills and the tablet usage skills. Even if more than half of the population of the world have access to the Internet, for example, the usage skill of the Internet can cause digital inequ-ality. This can lead even to exclusion from technology society. This study looks at factors that explain ICT skills. These factors may be in the connection to digital inequality. Methods. 554 fifth grade students participated in this study: 290 girls and 264 boys. The mate-rial of the stydy was gathered using an electronic questionnaire by the authors of the follow-up study of digital learning of Vantaa in spring 2017. The correlation test was used to analyze re-search questions concerning the connections between selected variables. The regression ana-lysis was used to examine explanatory factors and explanation degree for ICT skills and the usage skill of tablet. Results and conclusion. Based on this study, the reasoning skills were not in the connection to ICT skills and perceived benefit of tablet usage. Self-efficacy was only weakly in the connecti-on to usage skills of the tablet. This connection existed only for boys. Reasoning skills were not in the connection to perceived benefit of tablet usage. Self-efficacy was in the connection to perceived benefit of tablet usage especially for boys. Based on this study, ICT skills were best explained by the teaching of ICT skills. Based on the results of this study, it can be assumed that digital divide can best be prevented by teaching ICT skills.