Successful and unsuccessful use of online video clips in the stories of teachers from the viewpoint of meaningful learning

This article focuses on the worldview of Finnish primary school pupils and on the role of new media in forming their worldview. Children spend a great amount of their awake time with the stimulative world of new media. Along with the more traditional communication channels, the Internet has rapidly gained ground and has become part of children’s everyday lives. Communication on the Internet is mostly based on text and visual objects. This holds true with the other means of expression in new media, such as games and mobile technologies.

The aim of this article is to describe the role of new media in forming child’s worldview and its effects on children’s activities. The theoretical background of this article is based on the analysis of the notion of worldview. This notion is then operationalized with a structural model, which is expected to help us to describe, analyze and understand the various facets of the worldview. Also, this article will describe the world that new media is offering to us and in which children live today in an information society.