ICT in Swedish schools
In the decentralized Swedish school system the responsibility for ICT is shared. The role of the Government and its Agencies is to promote the use of ICT in education, mainly by supporting the municipalities and independent schools in their tasks.
The Agencies promote the use of ICT in education by developing user-friendly ICT tools for in-service competence development and school improvement as well as by stimulating the educationalists to increase their knowledge and competence.
There are also follow up-studies made regularly every three years at national level. The responsibility of the municipalities/independent schools is to provide access to computers and Internet in schools as well as to ensure that practitioners i.e. teachers are skilled in using ICT as a pedagogical tool. At the school level the responsibility is to choose methods and means to achieve the overall goals stated in the Education Act, the curriculum and other guiding documents.
2011 Insight Country Report Sweden
Check the source (Kolla källan in Swedish) is a website about information searching, critical examination of sources, copyright and internet safety for children and youth. In the first instance, the material on the website is intended for teachers and school librarians, but there is also material specifically for pupils.
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