Education, Texts and Technologies

Overview

Core fields of research

Learning, teaching and interaction

Research areas

JYU.Well

Digitalization in and for learning and interaction

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Department

Department of Teacher Education

Research group description

The Education, Texts and Technologies (ETT) research group conducts interdisciplinary research on the relationships between education and training, texts and technologies. Our research topics are diverse. At the moment, the focus in on issues such as:

• datafication of nonformal education, such as junior sports (the PARADOX project)
• datafication of institutional education and its implications for school practices and objectives (the MODALITY project),
• the technological conceptions of children and young people, and their professional educators (e.g., AI projects in the Innokas Network)
• people's everyday data literacies (Running with Data -project)

ETT also has its own master's thesis group, which produces around 10 theses a year.
 

Current

Projects

Related projects

Project

Resolving the Ethical Paradoxes of Data-Informed Talent Identification in Junior Sports through Data Literacy (PARADOX)

The PARADOX project investigates and addresses the ethical challenges in data-informed talent identification processes in junior sports.

Project

Movement for Data Literacy (MODALITY)

The project investigates datafication within schools and develops methods of enhancing students' data literacy.

Project

AI projects in the Innokas Network

Research on AI projects in basic education and early childhood education in the Innokas Network

Project

Running with Data

Tuotamme uutta ihmislähtöistä ymmärrystä siitä, millaista juoksu ja juokseminen on digitaalisen datan aikakaudella.

Members

Members

Pekka Mertala

Associate professor

Janne Fagerlund

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lauri Palsa

Postdoctoral Researcher

External members

Teemu Hanhela

Jyväskylän yliopisto

Publications

Publications

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Finnish 5th and 6th graders’ misconceptions about artificial intelligence

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

Mertala, Pekka

Fagerlund, Janne

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

From IT to I-It : Digitalization, datafication, automation, and the teacher-student relationship

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Highly cited educational technology journal articles : a descriptive and critical analysis

Learning, Media and Technology.

Mertala, Pekka

Moens, Eleni

Teräs, Marko

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Informaatio- ja datalukutaito : ketä kiinnostaa?

Informaatiotutkimus.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Kohti digiosaamisen strategista kehittämistä : kansainvälinen monilukutaidon ja ohjelmoinnillisen ajattelun tutkimus (ICILS 2023)

Tutkimuksia / Koulutuksen tutkimuslaitos. Jyväskylän yliopisto.

Fagerlund, Janne

Leino, Kaisa

Niilo-Rämä, Mikko

Puhakka, Eija

Markkanen, Ilona

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Koulutuksen datafikaation tulevaisuuksia kuvittelemassa

Informaatiotutkimus.

Palsa, Lauri

Fagerlund, Janne

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

Running free : recreational runners’ reasons for non-use of digital sports technology

Sport in Society.

Mertala, Pekka

Palsa, Lauri

Publication

2024

Available through Open Access

The Role of Chinese Culture and Western Influences in Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about the Use of Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Education

Digital Technologies and Early Childhood in China. Information Age Publishing.

Dong, Chuanmei

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2023

Available through Open Access

Juoksijoiden perusteita digitaalisten liikuntateknologioiden käyttämättä jättämiselle

Liikunta ja tiede.

Mertala, Pekka

Palsa, Lauri

Publication

2023

Juoksudata käyttöön : ihmislähtöistä tutkimustietoa juoksuteknologiasta

Juoksija.

Palsa, Lauri

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2023

Miten tehdä selkoa datasta?

Juoksija.

Palsa, Lauri

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2023

Monilukutaito dataistuvassa maailmassa

Lukemisen kulttuurit. Gaudeamus.

Mertala, Pekka

Sulkunen, Sari

Talvitie-Lamberg, Karoliina

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