About
My research interests are in the areas of digital literacy in schools and teacher education, more specifically cyberethics and computational thinking. I frequently work with design-based methods and research-practice partnerships focussing on the relationship between digital technologies and education.
Within the department, my teaching has focused on the integration of digital competence in initial teacher courses in different subjects and at different levels.
Research groups
Research projects
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Developing ICT in Teacher Education (DiCTE)
The overarching aim of the project is to develop ICT in teacher education.
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DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation
DigiGen aims to develop knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives.
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Mathematics, Science and Computational Thinking (MASCOT)
MASCOT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative and innovative research collaboration that aims to develop knowledge about teaching, learning and assessment processes of computational thinking in teacher education and school.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Labusch, Amelie; Eickelmann, Birgit; Casamassima, Gianna; Drossel, Kerstin; Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk; Kazani, Aggeliki;
Mifsud, Louise
; Symeonaki, Maria; Teidla-Kunitsõn, Gertha
(2024).
Children’s and young people’s ICT experiences in school education: Participatory research design to engage children and young people as experts in research.
Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk; Seland, Idunn; Hyggen, Christer; Roth, Maria (Ed.).
Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People. p. 143-165.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46929-9
Gudmundsdottir, Greta Björk;
Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk
;
Mifsud, Louise
; Teidla-Kunitsõn, Gertha; Barbovschi, Monica; Sisask, Merike
(2024).
Talking about digital responsibility: children’s and young people’s voices.
Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk; Seland, Idunn; Hyggen, Christer; Roth, Maria (Ed.).
Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People. p. 379-431.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46929-9
Rustad, Mikkel Bertram ; Parsanoglou, Dimitris; Symeonaki, Maria; Mifsud, Louise ; Hyggen, Christer ; Ghetau, Cosmin (2024). ‘Of gaming and other demons’: Defining children and young people’s meaningful leisure activities in the digital era. Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk; Seland, Idunn; Hyggen, Christer; Roth, Maria (Ed.). Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People. Springer Nature.
Symeonaki, Maria;
Hyggen, Christer
; Parsanoglou, Dimitris;
Mifsud, Louise
; Stamou, Giorgos
(2024).
Investigating Patterns of Digital Socialisation During Leisure Through Multimodal Social Research.
Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk; Seland, Idunn; Hyggen, Christer; Roth, Maria (Ed.).
Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46929-9_5
Andersen, Renate
;
Frågåt, Thomas
; Bogar, Yurdagül; Juellund, Jesper;
Mifsud, Louise
(2023).
Representations of Computational Thinking in Policy Documents in an Educational Context: The Cases of Denmark, Finland, and Norway.
Proceedings (International Conference of the Learning Sciences).
https://2023.isls.org/proceedings/
Eie, Siv
;
Andersen, Renate
;
Mifsud, Louise
;
Mørch, Anders
;
Rustad, Mikkel Bertram
(2023).
Kritisk tenkning og Minecraft i lærerutdanningen: en studie av samfunnsfagundervisning om det industrielle
gjennombruddet i Norge.
Nordidactica - Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/109179
Arinaitwe, Dinavence; Mifsud, Louise ; Habib, Kato; Sannerud, Arne Ronny (2022). Learning through collaboration between vocational teacher training institutions and workplaces: Barriers and contradictions. Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training. Vol. 12.
Nordby, Siri Krogh
;
Bjerke, Annette Hessen
;
Mifsud, Louise
(2022).
Computational Thinking in the Primary Mathematics
Classroom: a Systematic Review.
23 p.
Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40751-022-00102-5
Nordby, Siri Krogh
;
Bjerke, Annette Hessen
;
Mifsud, Louise
(2022).
Primary Mathematics Teachers’ Understanding of Computational Thinking.
Künstliche Intelligenz.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-021-00750-6
McGarr, Oliver.;
Mifsud, Louise
; Rubio, Juan Carlos Colomer
(2021).
Digital competence in teacher education: comparing national policies in Norway, Ireland and Spain.
Learning, Media & Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1913182
