Sociodigital Revolution: Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants
The debate on Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants has been going on for a while now. This is our contribution from the viewpoint of what […]
Author: Lauri Hietajärvi
M.Ed. (Educational Psychology), class teacher, Ph.D. Student.
Areas of interest: socio-digital participation, creative learning, technology-mediated learning, knowledge practices, motivation & emotion, well-being, person-oriented approaches
Lauri Hietajärvi is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, and currently working mostly with Mind the Gap -project data.
At the moment he is busy with exploring the various ways young people engage in socio-digital participation also outside of educational contexts, and further how these are interconnected with adolescents other spheres of life, such as academic and emotional functioning. Methodologically he is interested in combining various approaches from content-rich qualitative methods to longitudinal and person-oriented statistical methods.
A new publication: Sixth-graders’ socio-digital participation, interests and academic well-being
A new paper has just been published by the Mind the Gap -crew in The Finnish Journal of Education. The aim of this study was […]
A new publication: Teachers’ and teacher students conceptions of learning and creativity
A new study from the educational psychology research group in University of Helsinki has been published in Creative Education Journal. In their study, Iida Vedenpää […]
Collective creativity, communal learning and exceeding oneself
Learning researcher, psychologist and professor Kai Hakkarainen wants to shake up the notion of learning as a permanent, intrinsic ability or talent which predetermines the […]
How do teachers benefit from training on social interaction skills?
Markus Talvio (M.Ed), will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “How do teachers benefit from training on social interaction skills? – Developing and utilising an instrument […]
Reblog: “Finding a Common Purpose in Education”
Finland is being praised as good example in education, again. Yes, there is a lot of things that we apparently do better than most countries, […]
Reblog: “Why Technology Alone Can’t Fix the Education Problem”
Monica Bulger addresses in her post in DMLcentral some key issues related to the impact of modern technologies on learning, and more importantly why the […]
What’s the impact of technology on education?
A question that we get frequently asked (as we happen to work with issues related to young people’s technology mediated practices), is that what good does adding technology to classrooms do? Or more precisely, does technology have an positive impact on learning? However, as i see it, that question is quite irrelevant. In this post i will shortly explain why.