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  1. My teacher was a computer

    Computers already make our prepackaged lunches sold at seven elevens and manage a plethora of tasks in every area of our society. Why couldn’t computers also be teachers? The above example is imaginary, but based on the current hype of artificial intelligence (AI) it is becoming more real with each passing day. This development may not necessarily be bad, as with many other fields of work, transferring tasks from humans to robots may have a lot of beneficial sides. Already many schools are using software to find plagiarism in students texts or using intelligent learning systems that can help students…

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  2. Creative Coding at the art & craft school Robotti

    I am currently working on an article concerning creative coding at the Käsityökoulu Robotti (art&craft school Robotti). Robotti is a non-profit organization that offers teaching on art&tech for children. Creative coding could be described as a programming that is more interested in expression than function, but in Robotti it is also used as a teaching method to empower children to take control of the surrounding digital world. As such it is a critical pedagogical tool as well as an artistic medium. The article is based on the authors own ethnographic study in Robotti as well as interviews and questionnaires of…

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  3. Grasping the digital

    A Recent article (not yet published) I wrote with my brother examines some of the difficult questions raising from the increased use of digital technologies. For example, digitalization can be seen to act as an almost mythological buzzword for progress. But, what does digitalization mean? How do we live in the digital world? In our article we argue for a more embodied understanding of digital technologies is needed to participate in the discussion of the digital world; without experiental, embodied understanding, it can be difficult to comprehend what digital is and how it affects as well as appears in one's…

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