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Decisions, emotions or bad luck?
I admit, I like the famous Wayne Gretzky cliché quote “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been”. I, however, just noticed that I have always phrased it a bit differently — and never...
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Who chooses the tools for teaching? You or your IT department?
“- – if we put before the mind’s eye the ordinary schoolroom, with its rows of ugly desks placed in geometrical order, crowded together so that there shall be as little moving room as possible, desks...
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It’s been now a year and a half of online conferences. In the beginning they were exciting. Great — less traveling! I have participated several that have bee very well organised. For instance, I was...
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We need a Signal School — to be prepared for future crises
In May 2020, two Finnish teachers started to taught 23 Finnish children living in the Al-Hawl refugee camp. From their homes in Finland, every schooldays at 9 AM teachers sent text, image and audio...
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Metaverse: What it could (and should) be?
Photorealistic 360 “virtual reality” at the Aalto Virtual Campus Tour. Metaverse is a concept primary used in tech and media industries but also by journalists. It is fair to say that nobody really...
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Cumulus: “to be, or not to be”
I have been serving the last three years in the Executive Board of the Cumulus Association — the leading global association of art and design education and research. We have over 350 Member...
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Learning Society
My first book in Finnish was published last week by the PS Publishing House. We have some plans to have translations, at first in Spanish and at some point in English. The English title could be:...
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What and why I think about AI and humanity?
Bad Bad Boy sculpture by Tommi Toija. I met Marvin Minsky in a conference in Toronto in 2013. After his keynote, I wanted to ask him something I had recently thought about. I approached him,...
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Philosophy of Education Circle: Exploring Profound Educational Insights
In November 2022 at the FERA Conference on Education, we discussed with some colleagues how there is very little going on in the field of philosophy of education in Finland. The field of educational...
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Yliopisto, uusi media ja ihmiskunnan tulevaisuus
I decided to make this blog bilingual; Finnish and English. At some point maybe Swedish and Spanish, too. Suomen ensimmäisen yliopiston, Turun akatemian, avajaisissa vuonna 1640 piispa Rothoviuksen...
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