Digital Literacy in Upper Secondary School – What Do Students Use Their Laptops for During Teacher Instruction?

Abstract

The present study uses video recordings and qualitative interviews to examine the digital literacy practices of Norwegian students who have a personal laptop for school use. It uses the dichotomy between dominant school texts and vernacular out-of-school texts to examine the new school literacy practices. Findings indicate that the teachers’ use of visual technologies such as Power Point presentations in whole-class settings generates a variety of individual digital literacy practices among the students.

Keywords

• Digital literacy
• student literacy practices
• Internet in school.
• Digitalliteracy
• studentliteracypractices
• Internetinschool.