Browsing by Author "Mäkelä, Aino-Maria Vilhelmiina"

Priorities In this research I examine how teachers utilize media education in their teaching with the 6th graders. This research’s assignment is to investigate media education’s role in primary school, how media education reflects to learning, how students are taken part of the teaching and also differencies in media abilities between students and teachers and between the students. There is not a lot of resear-ches about utilizing media education in teaching especially in primary school but there is a lot of re-searches about childrens media habits in their free time. The new curriculum states that students should train their skills in both normal and techonological surroundings. The curriculum’s main goal is that students would learn how to use media’s opportunities in different ways. Methods This was a case study research. The research was a limited totality. Twenty 6th grade teachers took part in this research. They all live near Helsinki area. They were chosen randomly. All of them were teaching the 6th graders at the time of research. Participants answered questions online. The query had seven open questions and also questions about their background. This reasearch’s material was analyzed through the analysis of the content of the qualitative research and by the theme. Results and conclusions In this reasearch the results were that media education’s role is very visible in teaching with the 6th graders in primary school. Media education reflected learning with motivation and diversity of teaching. Students took part of the teaching with different media divices. Differencies in media abili-ties between the students and the teacher and the students were very major. Differencies between the students and the teachers were because of students are diginatives compared to teachers and that’s why they know how to use different media divices. Differencies between the students were because of their different backgrounds.