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 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.…
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 sciences is dominated by studies of learning results, motivation, use of ICT in education, STE(A)M. We get rarely to discussed about…
What and why I think about AI and humanity?
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…
Teemu Leinonen 