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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.

Sociodigital Revolution: Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

Posted May 6, 2015 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Publication

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 […]

A new publication: Sixth-graders’ socio-digital participation, interests and academic well-being

Posted December 11, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Publication

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

Posted December 10, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Publication

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

Posted December 1, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Blog post, Presentation, Reblog

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?

Posted November 27, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Blog post, Publication

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 […]

Minerva Plaza time-lapse video

Posted November 6, 2014November 6, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Video

MINERVA PLAZA TIME-LAPSE VIDEO from Faculty of Behavioural Sciences on Vimeo.

Reblog: “Finding a Common Purpose in Education”

Posted February 20, 2014February 20, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Reblog

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”

Posted February 10, 2014March 17, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Reblog

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 […]

The Educator’s view: Fritjof Sahlström

Posted February 6, 2014February 3, 2015 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Interview, Reblog, Video

The Educator’s view: Fritjof Sahlström from Faculty of Behavioural Sciences on Vimeo.

What’s the impact of technology on education?

Posted February 6, 2014February 13, 2014 Lauri HietajärviPosted in Blog post

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.

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