The Fifth Basic Skill – ICT – as a Learning Resource

Abstract

It has been of great importance for us to study ICT as a tool for learning in a holistic perspective. Accordingly – the article presents students’ actual use of PC related to the atmosphere in the classroom, to social relations, to the teacher´s role, to work processes and to the conception of learning and learning outcome. Besides stressing the context, the article stresses the teacher’s positioning, namely: allowing the students time to search for and construct new skills and understanding, allowing the students time for reflectiveness and insight into what one does and why, i.e. cognitive activity, metacompetence and additional learning. The article underlines understanding for learning, processes for the end product. We claim that the teacher´s role to focus learning atmosphere and to guide suitable process-strategies is a decisive condition for success with ICT.