Guidelines and Regulations for Teaching Digital Competence in Schools and Teacher Education: A Weak Link?

Teacher education has recently been criticised for not fulfilling its obligation to prepare teachers to utilise digital tools in the classroom. In this , we raise the question of why Norwegian teacher education does not student teachers to integrate digital tools into their teaching as required the Norwegian curriculum. We question the formal premises governing the of digital competence in teacher education and how they with the requirements of the Norwegian national education . To gain insight into this question, we analysed how digital is presented in the official key documents that create the for teacher education, and compared them to the requirements of the National Curriculum. Our findings indicate that there is a weak link the curriculum and the premises for digital competence in teacher .