The 21st century is quite different from the 20th in regard to the skills people need for work, citizenship, and self-actualisation. Proficiency in the 21st century differs primarily due to the emergence of sophisticated information and communication technologies. In this chapter, we will discuss whether teaching students are sufficiently prepared regarding the need for 21st century skills and ...

The international introduction of Internet during the last 8-10 years has resulted in a reorganisation of the IT-sector. This change is overwhelming, to an extent only few experts could predict.Several influential policy reports recently have argued that our societies are changing from industrial societies into 'information societies', in which the creation and dissemination of knowledge is of ...

Despite substantial national effort to integrate technology in education, it seems that practitioners in the education system are not working in line with the given policy. Evidence from large-scale studies of students’ technology practices at school over the last decade show disparities in student practices. The observed gap between the micro and the macro level call for a closer exploration. ...

Research on bullying and harassment in Scandinavia has been going on for several decades, and is appearing in new frameworks and forms since the new categories of “cyber harassment” or “cyberbullying” has been introduced. Bullying is a phenomenon of great importance, as it seems to affect persons negatively in their everyday functioning. <br>We designed a questionnaire on cyber harassment, which ...

Today, many would assume that Charles Darwin absolutely rejected any claim of intelligent design in nature.However, review of his initial writings reveals that Darwin accepted some aspects of this view. His conceptualization of design was founded on both the cosmological and the teleological ideas from classical natural theology. When Darwin discovered the dynamic process of natural selection, ...

Educational use of technology is regularly assessed, and results often show a gap between educational policies and what is actually practiced. This chapter will help clarify how teacher educators experience the changing educational contexts due to the digital revolution, how their meaning-making shifts, and how outside forces influence those processes. The results are based on comparative international ...

Ved innføring av fem basisferdigheter i Læreplanverket for Kunnskapsløftet (LK06) ble digital kompetanse innført som den femte basisferdigheten. Dette sidestiller bruk av digitale verktøy med lesing, skriving, muntlig aktivitet og regning. Forskningsarbeidet som ligger til grunn for denne boka har hatt som overordnet mål å finne indikasjoner på digitale dysfunksjoner. Gjennom arbeid med elever og ...

A prominent problem in analysing genetic information has been a lack of mathematical frameworks for doing so. This article offers some new statistical methods to model and analyse information content in proteins, protein families, and their sequences. We discuss how to understand the qualitative aspects of genetic information, how to estimate the quantitative aspects of it, and implement a statistical ...

Disse forelesningene ble i ulike varianter brukt en del av studiet Informatikk I (10 vt) etter den gamle rammeplanen av 1985. Som verktøy ble Turbo Pascal versjon 3.0, 5.0, 5.5, 7.0 og senere versjon 1.0 og 1.5 for Windows brukt. Turbo Pascal fra Borland i USA var i sin tid et banebrytende programmeringsverktøy som gjorde det mulig å utvikle profesjonell programvare på en liten PC, noe som før den ...

Over ten years have passed since Norwegian educational reform implemented the use of digital tools as a required basic skill in all subjects and at all levels of Norwegian schools. However, government surveys show that there is still a significant gap between the intention of educational policies and what is actually practiced in Norwegian education. This gap has often been attributed to practitioners’ ...