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Wikipedistit palkittiin avoimen tiedon rakentamisesta
Wikimania 2019, Stockholm. Patricia Costillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Tällä viikolla suomalaiset wikipedistit saivat tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon. Siis minäkin sain palkinnon....
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Learning, Thinking and AI
I have a partly joking, partly serious argument: if there’s anyone to blame for the sad state of the world today, it’s the men in cafés of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wellbeing of a university community and its members during remote working
I wrote some weeks ago a Twitter Thread related to the story by the University of Helsinki, telling that university students’ wellbeing continues to decline. To keep this in my own files I...
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E-learning for Dogs
This week at the Helsinki airport two coronavirus sniffer dogs started to work. More dogs are trained to detect Covid. The dogs are trained to detect the virus by sniffing samples taken by swiping...
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Open source / FLOSS tool for online collaboration
Aalto Media Lab students are awesome. Now they have collected a list of open source / FLOSS tools for online collaboration during the pandemic. The original file is in the Wikimedia’s etherpad. I...
View ArticleSeven tips to have successful online video meetings
I wrote these to an earlier blog post about online teaching, but maybe they deserve their own entry, too. Here is my list of seven tips to have a successful online video meeting. (1) When someone is...
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Campus Universities and Online Teaching
With the corona crisis many campus universities have fast moved to online teaching. To help people in the transition, with a group of volunteers, we wrote an open guidebook, for educators in...
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Forest as a learning environment: children and a trail camera
We just published a research article in the journal Educational Media International: Vartiainen, H., Leinonen, T. & Nissinen, S. (2019) Connected learning with media tools in kindergarten: an...
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Wikipedia: more languages?
Wikipedia is available in 303 languages. It is estimated that there are between 5000 and 7000 human languages in the world. Out of these close to 4000 have a writing system. Today in the Wikimedia...
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Art and design education in the future?
中文: 清华大学国徽设计组成员与各种设计方案合影。By Tsinghua University via Wikimedia Commons. OECD Education Director Andreas Schleicher recently claimed that because of the tech revolution, in a near future arts may become...
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