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 kerrotaan sanoneen, että yliopiston perustaminen on maailman luomisen jälkeen parasta mitä Ruotsin valtakunnan itäiselle niemelle on sattunut. Rothovius näki, että yliopiston myötä taikuus ja noitavainot saadaan kuriin. […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
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 sciences is dominated by studies of learning results, motivation, use of ICT in education, STE(A)M. We get rarely to discussed about […]
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, introduced myself, chit-chat a bit about Finland with him and his wife, who had some friends from Finland. Then I said something like this: “As we humans […]
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: Learning Society — What is good for children is good for all. As you know, if you are reading […]
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 institutions in 63 countries. The Executive Board is elected by the Members. When I decided to stand as a candidate in 2019, […]
Metaverse is a concept primary used in tech and media industries but also by journalists. It is fair to say that nobody really knows what it is or how it will be. For many, metaverse is the second coming of the Second Life (2003), a 3D virtual world with avatars to hangout and talk with […]
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 messages to their students’ mobile phones — school assignments of the day. In the camp children were having a daily schedule […]
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 closely following how the Participatory Design conference (PDC 2010) was organised. The PDC’s Handbook for Meaningful and Engaged Conversations is […]
“- – 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 almost all of the same size, with just space enough to hold books, pencils and paper, and add a […]
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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 have used it seriously. My version is: “Don’t skate where the puck is, skate where the puck […]
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