In Swedish compulsory school the subject Art contains all sorts of visual culture and therefore also work with digital techniques. It offers the opportunity to find new ways to work with pupils and to use new techniques to develop education in visual culture. The Digital media gives other possibilities for pupils to use pictures from the Internet and convert them to something of their own, and gives the opportunity to create artifacts pupils cannot create with traditional methods. Do the medium also invite new ways to work in schools?

In my research I study the teachers’ roles when the pupils are using a computer to create their art work, presentations, films etc. Work with computers raises new questions for teachers and pupils to deal with. I study what kind of problems/questions they have to tackle in lessons, and what strategies they use. I also hope to find out in what way teacher design lessons, to make pupils understand the impact of images and to develop the pupils´ own creativity and understanding of the visual culture we live in today. To find this out, I study in what way teachers interact with their pupils to stimulate them to develop their visual/media literacy. My approach is ethnological, and the method consists of interviews and observations using a small video camera placed on the teacher and also by taking notes in the classroom.