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Oakland school visit
techGyrls information and events. To further develop the Square1 set of single task dedicated devices in close collaboration with teachers and learners, connections to public schools in the Bay Area...
View ArticleMobile tools good in social context
In this blog post, I summarize learning Squire’s & Dickers’ article “Amplifications of learning: Use of mobile devices among youth” published in Convergence. Their work is a small qualitative study...
View ArticleLEAD @ ITK 2013
Interaktiivinen tekniikka koulutuksessa (ITK, Interactive Technology in Education, ITE) -conference is the largest conference in Finland related to information and communication technology in...
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Middle school intern Nico at HIIT
In Finland, there is a practice of middle school students doing a short term internship (TET) in work places. We had Nico, a 8th grader visiting us for one week. Nico wrote about his experiences with...
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Square1: Participatory design with girls in Oakland
Video documentation of the presentation of one group (turn up your volume to listen to the comments of the girls). With the help of Jana, the techGyrls program coordinator of the YWCA...
View ArticleReflections on ITK2013
By Kiarii and Eva From 10th to 12th of April, the 2013 Interaktiivinen Tekniikka Koulutuksessa took place in Hämeenlinna. First day was dedicated to several pre-conference workshops such as the...
View ArticleLEAD project Vimeo channel
The new Vimeo channel of the LEAD project is starting out strong with 13 short videos of Participatory Design sessions with girls at the ACRON Wooldland school in Oakland, California.
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Square1: Second PD workshop with girls in Oakland
In context of the techGyrls mentor program of the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland, program coordinator, Jana, four active mentors, Becca, Jules, Lily and Emily, and I facilitated the second a participatory...
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Maker Education Initiative anniversary
At the 1-year Maker Education Initiative (MakerEd) anniversary celebration at the Maker Faire on Thursday, Dale Dougherty presented his vision for bringing making back into schools by connecting it to...
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Square1: Third PD workshop with girls in Oakland
During two prior participatory design sessions with girls in the ACORD Woodland public school in Oakland, California we started developed software ideas for the interaction design and functionality...
View ArticleEmergent design with iPads and 3D printers
What do you get when you take 40 2nd grade students, show them a 3D printer in action, give them 10 iPads, a 3D modeling app, a theme, and 1 hour? There is no 1:1 setup, no strict curriculum, no strict...
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The Backchannel Study and few notes on experiments
The school is over, and so is the extensive studies (5 classes, total of circa 75 students) conducted in Hämeenlinna have come to end. The idea was that the classes used a hacked version of a...
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LEAD progress
In the last couple of months the LEAD project’s university research partners have been focusing on case studies, additional participatory design sessions and development of new prototypes. The research...
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Feeler workshop
As part of the contextual inquiry of Feeler’s prototype design, a participatory workshop was held with MA students of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Feeler is a design-in-progress tool...
View ArticleRichard Stallman to speak at Aalto
We are happy to announce that with our project partner, Eliademy we are organizing an event where Richard Stallman will give a speech about Free Digital Society. The event is free (as in beer) and free...
View ArticleEducation Research in Berkeley
Originally published in my personal blog Science & Industry. Greetings from Berkeley Education Research Day, one day event exploring education research and practice around education. The US...
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Square1 software / hardware prototype testing in a school
More photos from the workshop. Couple of weeks ago, we held the first workshop with students for the Square1 software / harware prototype. The objective of the workshop was to explore how the Square1...
View ArticleSocial shift in MOOCs
Executive summary: Matti has been looking some MOOC related research taking place in UC Berkeley. One emerging theme is adding peer-to-peer interaction into the exercises to support learning. Matti...
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Feeler co-design pilot workshop
As part of Feeler design concept contextual inquiry, a co-design workshop was organized with students of Kyushu University Design School. The intention of the workshop was to explore issues dealing...
View ArticleEdMedia 2014 in Tampere, LEAD is here too
The international EdMedia conference is starting now at Tampere, and the LEAD research group is extreamly visible in the conference. We have our own LEAD Symposium: Design for Learning: Enhancing...
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