Browsing by Author "Salonen, Karoliina"

Tiivistelmä - Referat - Abstract The purpose of this descriptive literary review is to research what kind of scientific studies has been made about the digitalisation in finnish elementary school at the 2010s. Digitalisation is one of the main topics in finnish elementary school, with great expectations. Use of information and communication technology has increased during consumable decade, and it still is one of the main ambitions in education policy. The digitalisation of the school has advanced rapidly, despite there is not enough scientific research about it's effects to learning. This work has been executed as descriptive literary review. Composing the material was difficult because of the lack of the made studies about the topic. The material includes such studies and scientific articles that discourses about the digitalisation in finnish elementary school during this decade. By this literary review has been perceived that there is not enough scientific studies about the subject. Majority of the made studies has the mainline in different kind of advices, such as iPad, and the (teachers and students) user experience of them. Digitalisation seems to be the keyword what comes to solving the problems of finnish elemenytary school and it's backwardness. Wheter digitalisation has reclaimed it's expectations, or not, has to be maid more research. It was also noticed that with digitalisation there is often used such terms as life-long-learning and learning-to-learn.