From a student perspective, what constitutes a good (or less good) use of ICT in teaching?

This paper investigates what upper secondary school students regard as goodor less good teaching using ICT. 367 Swedish upper secondary students in 2 schoolsresponded to a web-based questionnaire. The students were asked to describe one oftheir teachers who used ‘ICT in a way that made them learn very well, and one whoused ICT in a way that made them learn less well’ and to describe what these teachersdid and why their teaching was understood as good or less good. 18 themes wereidentified, of which 17 were combined into eight overall counterpart themes and onenon-counterpart theme. ‘Clarity’ was the most prominent theme, followed by ‘teachers’‘ICT skills’, ‘uses ICT in a good way’, ‘fun factor’, ‘puts information on the LMS’,‘varies the teaching methods’, ‘demonstrates how to use ICT’ and ‘general pedagogicalskills’. The results show that although the specific focus is on students’ views of theirteachers’ use of ICT, general pedagogical skills are a major focus in the themes.Effectiveness is an explicit theme in terms of ICT adding value to teaching andlearning, while ineffectiveness is an implicit underlying dimension in the themesrelating to less good teaching. It is also evident that the students value the sameteacher’s use of ICT in teaching differently.lic