How to Teach Science Digitally!? Dikolan - A Framework for Pre-Service Teacher Education

Introducing prospective science teachers systematically to subject-specific competencies for the integration of digital elements into future teaching needs a suitable curriculum. According to the analysis presented in this paper, the competency frameworks published so far lack the subject-specificity that is required for successful integration of digital media and technologies into science education. Therefore, by deducing seven central digital competency areas that are
compatible with skills needed for planning and running science lessons we developed a framework of digital competencies for teaching in science education (DiKoLAN - Digitale Kompetenzen für das Lehramt der Naturwissenschaften, transl. Digital Competencies for Teaching in Science Education). A detailed description of DiKoLAN and the underlying concepts was published together with presentations of 23 established teaching projects related to DiKoLAN (see https://dikolan.de). DiKoLAN enables teacher educators to coordinate training objectives according to both cross-curricular and subject-specific learning objectives formulated specifically for science teaching subjects. The sum of all contained competency expectations describes the advisable basic level of competence that all science teachers should
have reached at the end of the university training phase. In this paper, we present and discuss our concept of DiKoLAN, as a structured approach to systematically integrate digital media into teacher education. Moreover, as DiKoLAN is structured by using the TPACK model, it is compatible with existing models and therefore integrable into existing course structures.