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Abstract
Raija Hämäläinen
Realism or utopia?
A Case Study of Integrating ICT Education With
Classroom Instruction
University of Jyväskylä. Institute for Educational Research. Research Reports 12. 2004.
ISSN 1455-447X. ISBN 951-39-1935-8
The publication describes a case study of the integration of ICT and visual arts
education. The field study phase of the project was carried out in the school year
2001-2002 in Grade 4 of Lapunmäki School in Konnevesi. The research data were
gathered using several methods and analysed in accordance with Syrjäläinen’s
classification of the stages of qualitative analysis.
The central aim of the project was to find ways of putting communications
technology tools to practical uses and explore meaningful content production.
The technology employed during instruction and the students’ acquisition of user
skills were incorporated into the other teaching contents. The first research task
was to find practices that would make it possible to integrate ICT instruction,
through the use of Peda.net web tools, as a natural aspect of a comprehensiveschool
classroom teacher’s teaching planning and practical activities. The second
research task was to develop integrated ICT education on the basis of student
experiences. The third research task, which the two first tasks were intended to
serve, was to promote student construction of knowledge through integration,
experiential learning, collaborative learning and evaluation.
The research findings suggest that though a meaningful integration of ICT
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