Digital study materials and didactics : The experience of digital and physical study materials in upper secondary school

The purpose of the research is to identify how pupils and teachers experience different kind of study material in school. It is also important to know which factors affect these experiences. This is what my study will examine. The key-factor to be able to interpret different kinds of multimodal literacy is to understand its textual genre. Pupils and teachers need a certain level of technological skills to be able to create multimodal text and to have an estimation of the purpose of different text genres. To analyze the research material a hermeneutic method is used with a phenomenographic focus of the experience that the survey data and interviewed informants provide for the research. Results shows that some experience is similar between the teachers and pupils concerning the different study materials, then again preference might differ when it comes to preparations for tasks or lectures. Something all informants agree upon, is that the computer as digital tool is positive since it is used in every subject in school and it is never lost or forgotten at home by pupils