On the 14-15 January, Tamsin Meaney and Bodil Stakkestad Kristensen travel to Halden to work with Odd Tore Kaufmann and Marianne Maugesten from HiØF and Hilja Huru from UiT on a project to understand mathematics preservice teachers digital competence. This project is related to the ICT sub-project of LATACME and has been funded by MatRIC- the Centre for Research, Innovation and Co-ordination of Mathematics Teaching. The funding allows us to meet four times.

In this first meeting, we worked on developing a questionnaire that could provide us with information about preservice teachers’ background experiences with digital tools and their willingness to use them in their future mathematics teaching. We anticipate asking presrvice teachers in our three institutions to complete it in April or May 2019. A copy of this survey will be made available on our website shortly.

We also worked on an app evaluation, based on one developed in Germany (http://dlgs.uni-potsdam.de/oer/acat-review-guide). This guide had been developed in German and then translated into English. We took these guides and rewrote them in Norwegian so that preservice teachers could use them in deciding what digital apps they would incorporate into their teaching. The final version of this will be found on our resources page shortly, along with some of the evaluations done by some of the preservice teachers at HVL.

Our next meeting will be in Tromsø in May, when we will begin data analysis, with a focus on the survey data.