Website – A Partnership between Parents, Students and SchoolseLearning Papers
The website developed by the 1.b class at the Augusta Šenoa elementary school is, first and foremost, a pioneering work stemming from cooperation among teachers and parents. The purpose of the website is to inform, activate, and involve parents, students and teachers who work in the classroom. Each activity is documented, giving insight into the everyday activities, and making the classroom visible and transparent to everyone. The project uses new technology (forum, gallery of student work, class mail), and enlists a partnership of parents, who made parts of the website.
In this presentation at SXSWedu in March 2013, Dr. Gigi Johnson explores the fuzzy world of “blended” courses in higher education. She dissects the tensions and tribulations as universities attempt to blend F2F and web-enriched tools in traditional environments, including challenges of time, space, and data politics in research universities, challenges with cost structures and faculty development, and abundant legal and IP issues. What is a class vs. what it could be with rich alternative technologies for learning? How do old universities rethink “class” instead of “just” repackage learning in a blended environment?
Workshop for Twin Coast Cluster Conference. Deals with the purpose of blogging in a classroom and gives examples from a junior class (5 to 7 year old children) . Examples include voice thread, photopeach, Kid Pix, animoto.
Website – A Partnership between Parents, Students and SchoolseLearning Papers
The website developed by the 1.b class at the Augusta Šenoa elementary school is, first and foremost, a pioneering work stemming from cooperation among teachers and parents. The purpose of the website is to inform, activate, and involve parents, students and teachers who work in the classroom. Each activity is documented, giving insight into the everyday activities, and making the classroom visible and transparent to everyone. The project uses new technology (forum, gallery of student work, class mail), and enlists a partnership of parents, who made parts of the website.
In this presentation at SXSWedu in March 2013, Dr. Gigi Johnson explores the fuzzy world of “blended” courses in higher education. She dissects the tensions and tribulations as universities attempt to blend F2F and web-enriched tools in traditional environments, including challenges of time, space, and data politics in research universities, challenges with cost structures and faculty development, and abundant legal and IP issues. What is a class vs. what it could be with rich alternative technologies for learning? How do old universities rethink “class” instead of “just” repackage learning in a blended environment?
Workshop for Twin Coast Cluster Conference. Deals with the purpose of blogging in a classroom and gives examples from a junior class (5 to 7 year old children) . Examples include voice thread, photopeach, Kid Pix, animoto.
Nettilukio offers a comprehensive Finnish upper secondary school study programme online, using a learning platform, virtual classroom technology, wikis and blogs, which is aimed at adults aged 17-75...
Cooperative Online Education: Independence with the help of othersMorten Flate Paulsen
A 60-minutes presentation at the workshop:
New technology – new possibilities and new challenges?
Developing networks in teacher education and research
01.07.2011, University of Tromsø
A 60-minutes presentation at the www.youthstudies.eu workshop: Making a success of an international and integrated blended learning degree course. 01.07.2011, University of Oslo
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Johdatus tekoälyyn ja käyttötapoja kirjastotyössä 16.5.24Matleena Laakso
Tekoäly: mitä se on, miten se toimii, mitä sovelluksia on tarjolla, mahdollisuudet ja uhat ym.
Lue lisää blogisivulta: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/tekoaly.html
Aktivointi ja osallistaminen digityökaluilla 15.5.24Matleena Laakso
Aktivoinnin sovelluksia. Kaikista tarkemmat ohjeet koulutuksen verkkoympäristössä sekä julkisesti blogisivulla: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/koulutusdiat.html
Lue lisää kouluttajan tekoälysivulta: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/tekoaly.html
Ilmoittaudu mukaan seuraavaan toteutukseen: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/tervetuloa.html
Miten fasilitoida lähinä ja etänä? Ideoita, vinkkejä ja menetelmiä. Sähköisiä työkaluja näihin liittyen harjoitellaan seuraavassa webinaarissa. Niiden ohjeet myös blogisivulla: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/koulutusdiat.html
Tallenne ja linkit keskeisiin lähteisiin koulutuksen oppimisympäristössä. Tekoälyn osalta myös blogisivulla: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/tekoaly.html
Viron suomenopettajien hybridikoulutus (Narva/verkko) tekoälystä kielenopetuksessa.
Lue lisää tekoälystä, sovelluksista ja opetuskäytöstä: https://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/tekoaly.html
Tekoäly valinnaisten kielten opetuksessa 15.4.24Matleena Laakso
Lukion kieltenopettajien ainetiimin tapamisen bloggaus dioineen ja linkkeineen: https://ainetiimit.blogspot.com/2024/04/tekoaly-kieltenopetuksessa.html
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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1. Footprints across Europe
Erasmus KA2
Akaa, Finland 4.-5.4.2017
Matleena Laakso
Blog: http://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-english.html
Twitter: @matleenalaakso
Picture: jobhaug CC0, pixabay.com
2. Tuesday at 9-14
• Getting to know each other
• Education System in Finland
– Todaysmeet and Padlet
• ICT in education
– Best tools for learning
– Kahoot and Quizizz
• Expectations for tomorrow
3. Wednesday at 9-13
• Two examples of pupils weekly timetable
• ICT in education
– NMC reports: global and Nordic countries
– Quizlet live and some other apps for learning
– Sharing with open licence
• Getting to know QR codes, virtual and augmented reality
• What did you learn?
What was important for you? (Notegraphy)
4. In addition to these slides
you will find information and
several links from Padlet:
padlet.com/matlaakso/footprints
5. Ateneum – Finnish National Gallery
Picture: Htm CC BY-SA, commons.wikimedia.org
7. padlet.com/matlaakso/footprints
• ”Digital flipchart”, good tool for both individuals and groups
• Sign in padlet.com and create a Padlet Share link to
others, they do not need to sign in.
• You can add text, pictures, links,..
• Pc and mobile app (iOS, Android)
Add notes and usefullinks and write yourcomments!
9. Some key factors of Finnish education
This slide is copy from Sanna Ruhalahti’s presentation: https://
www.slideshare.net/SannaRuhalahti/finnish-education-presentation-cavan-institute/7
• All have equal access to high-quality education
• Its free and publicly funded
• Rights to educational support
• Lifelong learning - no dead ends
• Educational autonomy and local authorities
• Quality assurance based on steering, no controlling
• Highly educated teaching personnel
• Good and well supported education & training
10. What is so special about
Finnish education?
Finnish National Board of Education 2016: http://
www.oph.fi/download/180148_Compulsory_education_in_Finland.pdf
• Teaching is a very popular profession
• No inspections
• No national exams
• No teacher evaluation
• Teachers feel valued by society
• Short school days
• The amount of homework is low
• Number of lessons in art, music and physical education have
been increased
11. School timetable (3rd class, 9 y)
This is a weekly timetable for the whole year. This pupil is learning German and
will have English next year. Most pupils have just one foreign language at this
age. Swedish starts at 6th class.
Finnish
Math
PE
Finnish
Math
Finnish
Environment and
natural sciences
History
Finnish
Math
Math
Environment and
natural sciences
Art
Art
Religion/ethics
PE
PE
German
Music
German
German
Textile and
technical work
Textile and
technical work
Finnish
Kuva: Iina 7 v, CC BY-SA
12. School timetable (9th class, 15 y)
This is a weekly timetable for the whole year. Lessons take 45 minutes. During
8-9th classes pupils have three optional subjects. At 9th class history is
replaced with social sciences and for example music and art are now optional.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
German Social studies German
Math Finnish Swedish Social studies Social studies
Mother tongue
and literature
Mother tongue
and literature
Pupil
counselling
Biology/
Geography
Biology/
Geography
Germany Religion Computer
science
Swedish English
Biology/
Geography
Math Computer
science
Physics/
Chemistry
English
PE Home
economics
Math Physics/
Chemistry
PE Home
economics
Math
13. The Matriculation Examination
www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/images/sivuston_tiedostot/Ylioppilastutkinto/ytl_presentation_english_update.pdf
First arranged in Finland in 1852
•2000s: 35 000 (about half of the age group)
•Arranged biannually (spring/autumn), in all Finnish upper secondary
schools at the same time.
The examination consists of at least four compulsory tests
•Candidate’s mother tongue (Finnish, Swedish, Sami)
•Three other compulsory tests from the following group:
– second national language
– a foreign language
– mathematics
– one test in the general studies battery of tests(sciences and humanities)
•Additional (optional) test(s) may be included in the examination
14. The Matriculation Examination
www.ylioppilastutkinto.fi/images/sivuston_tiedostot/Ylioppilastutkinto/ytl_presentation_english_update.pdf
The purpose is to discover:
•whether the students have assimilated the skills required in the
curriculum for the upper secondary school and
•whether they have reached the adequate level of maturity.
Passing the Matriculation Examination entitles
the candidate to continue his or her studies
at university.
•Admission to Finnish universities is also
possible without passing the Matriculation
Examination. These candidates are eligible
to apply in a separate quota.
15. Digitalization of tests
has changed the pedagogy
Digitalization project (2016-2019)
•From paper format to electronic exam
•Digitalization of the whole process
Picture: Matleena Laakso, CC BY
16. Continuing teacher education
is encouraged
See for example: http://
www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/embeds/cimowwwstructure/27467_Finnish_edu
• At most levels of education teachers are required to participate in in-
service training every year. Teachers participate actively.
• It is offered by different providers who can apply for funding.
– Public funding can be applied from the Ministry of Education and
Culture, the Finnish National Board of Education, EU funded projects,
education provider etc.
• Wide variety of free trainings for teachers
• Also compulsory trainings
• Training and other development work often
done in projects
• Online-learning and webinars have increased
• Shorter trainings as for example 10 years ago
17. My year 2016
http://www.matleenalaakso.fi/2017/01/tyovuosi-2016.html
• Webinars 45 (previous years 24 – 8 – 5 – 5)
• Face-to-face training 43
• The most famous blogpost related to Pokémon GO
• 10th Pepi-training (3 days + webinars)
• Article: Why share with open licence?
• Guide: How to activate university lectures?
• How and where I learn?
– Facebook groups
– Other social media tools
– Blogs and books
– Conferences: ITK and
BETT Show,..
My year 2014: The cities where I worked & AC
18. Micro-revolutions in the open
networks of teachers in Finland
Rongas, Konkarikoski & Honkonen-Ratinen (2014):
https://
www.academia.edu/7495473/Micro-revolutions_in_the_open_networks_of_teachers_in_Finland
• Small linguistic region and uniform way of working
• Several teacher-networks, founded on voluntary activity
19. More information
• Finnish education in a nuttshell
– http://www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/embeds/cimowwwstructure
• Finnish national agency for education
– http://www.oph.fi/english/education_system
• Facebook group: Finnish primary
education and schools (Ask us anything)
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/1783038135348137/?fref=ts
20. Top tools for teaching and learning
https://answergarden.ch/459614
•Write the name of each tools as
an individual message
•If your answer is already written by
someone else, just click it and submit
•Refresh to view all answers
22. answergarden.ch
Create a new AnswerGarden just by writing your theme or question
and then clicking Create. All other options are voluntary.
No signing in.
Create
23. 1. YouTube
2. Google Search
3. Twitter
4. PowerPoint
5. Google Docs/Drive
6. Facebook
7. Skype
8. LinkedIn
9. WordPress
10. Dropbox
Top Tools for Learning 2016
Jane Hart: c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools
TOOL: “any software or online tool or service that can be used for your own personal learning or for teaching or training”
11. Wikipedia
12. Yammer
13. WhatApp
14. Prezi
15. Kahoot
16. Word
17. Evernote
18. Slideshare
19. OneNote
20. Slack
24. My best social media tools
Kuva: Anne Rongas CC BY
1. Facebook
2. Blogger and other
blogs
3. SlideShare
4. PowerPoint
5. Twitter
6. Adobe Connect
7. Google Search
8. Padlet
9. AnswerGarden
10.QR codes
Matleena Laakso:
bit.ly/parhaat16
25. Finns in social media
Harto Pönkä: https://harto.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/suomalaiset-sosiaalisessa-mediassa-q12017
26. Social media tools mostly used
in Finland by 13-29 years
Suomessa asuvien 13-29 -vuotiaiden nuorten sosiaalisen median palveluiden käyttäminen ja läsnäolo (2016)
made by ebrand Suomi Ltd & City of Oulu (CC BY-NC-ND): www.ebrand.fi/somejanuoret2016
1. WhatsApp 88 %
2. YouTube 85 %
3. Facebook 81 %
4. Instagram 72 %
5. Spotify 66 %
6. Snapchat 60 %
7. Facebook Messenger 56 %
8. Skype 35 %
9. Twitter 25 %
10. Steam 19 %
32. 2017 NMC Technology Outlook,
Nordic Schools
Significant developments in
technologies supporting teaching,
learning, and creative inquiry in
primary and secondary education
across Denmark, Finland,
Norway, and Sweden
http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2017-nmc-
technology-outlook-nordic-schools-
EN.pdf
38. kahoot.it
An easy tool for tests
•Only teacher needs to sign in (getkahoot.com)
•You or your students can easely create your own quizzes
(private/public)
•There are millions of public quizzes you can use as they are or
dublicate and edit them
NOTICE
•There can be several right answers
but you can choose just one of them
•Your get more points if you give the
right answer quicker than others
39. What is new in Kahoot?
• Blind Kahoot
• Ghoast mode
• Team Mode
• Enable 2 Step Join
• Kahoot Jumble
40. Create your own Kahoot
Sign in and create your own Kahoot or
dublicate a Kahoot from Public Kahoots.
42. Create your own Quiz
• Sign in Create
• Play live or homework
43. pixabay.com/en
All images and videos on Pixabay are released free of copyrights under
Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them
royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications.
45. Quizlet is good both for
practising and testing vocabulary
• Seven types of tasks/tests and games
• Pc and mobile (iOS, Android)
• Quizlet Live (12+ terms)
46. Creating a new Quizlet
Sign in Create Set title Write the words (pairs) and choose
language. It can also be mathematics or chemistry.
Choose who can edit and view quizizz. Create
You can also use
pictures (Flickr, CC)
47. Random name pickers
• www.classtools.net/education-games-php/fruit_machine
• www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/index.php
52. #openeducationwk #jaajotain
Open Education is about free and
open sharing. Free, meaning no
cost, and open, which refers to the
use of open licenses that allow
everyone to reuse and modify
educational resources.
Open Education Week is
celebrated as Jaa jotain -päivä in
Finland.
•In English:
www.openeducationweek.org
•In Finnish: jaajotain.wordpress.com
53.
54. • International and non-commercial
Creative Commons licenses are the
standard for sharing free content online.
• The most used license in the world
– The Finnish National Board of Education
recommends each teacher to use them.
• creativecommons.org
Picture: creativecommons.org/licenses, CCBY
55. This slide is a variation from Tarmo Toikkanen tarmo.fi CC BY-SA –licensed content: Tekijänoikeudet ja Creative Commons datan avaajille:
www.slideshare.net/tarmot/tekijanoikeudet-ja-creative-commons-datan-avaajalle
Creative Commons -terms
By combining these terms you get the licenses on the following slide
58. I used materials
with open licence
during the past
month
I have never used
materials with
open licence
I shared my open
materials in web
during the last
month
Primary and
secondary
13 % 48 % 22 %
Vocational 16 % 43 % 45 %
UAS 31 % 19 % 63 %
Universities 36 % 19 % 48 %
Copyright and education
Kopiosto ry:n tekijänoikeus ja opetus -selvitys (2015)
59. With QR codes you can bring mobile
contect to printed material
QR Code (=Quick Response) is
usually a link to a web page.
It can also open a text or audio
message or contact information.
You can read the QR codes with your
mobile devices
•QR Code Reader (Google Play)
•QRReader (App Store)
Kuva: Matleena Laakso, CC BY
60. Make your own QR codes
• http://goqr.me
• Choose the type of QR code, add the content and create.
61. Map full of information about Finland
The idea is from Petra Larvus
• German lesson: "Helsinki ist die Hauptstadt von Finnland.”
Kuva: Petra Larvus CC BY-SA
62. Augmented reality
“Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or
indirect view of a physical, real-world
environment whose elements
are augmented (or supplemented) by
computer-generated sensory input such as
sound, video, graphics or GPS data.”
(Wikipedia)
Pictures: Matleena Laakso, CC BY
63. quivervision.com
Three Quiver apps (iOS, Android): Quiver, Quiver Education, Quiver
Fashion
Ruudunkaappauskuvia sovelluksesta ja sen verkkosivulta
68. Virtual reality
“Virtual reality (VR) typically refers to computer technologies that use virtual reality
headsets to generate the realistic images, sounds and other sensations that
replicate a real environment or create an imaginary setting.” (Wikipedia)
Picture: Lisa Castaneda & Tom Swanson: Vision Summit 2016, Screencast from Timo Ilomäki´s livereporting
69. What did you learn?
What was important for you today?
notegraphy.com or iOS, Android
•Do not download MOOD Keyboardia!
Write the text
1.Choose the layout and color
2.Share your picture
70. • Learn about CC-licensies: creativecommons.org
• CC BY-SA (terms for these slides):
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
• Link to this presentation:
www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso/footprints-across-
europe
• You can also contact www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-
english.html to get more rights.
Licenced under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Editor's Notes
Footprints across Europe 4.-5.4.2017 made by Matleena Laakso, is licenced under CC BY-SA. More information in the last slide.