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

2021

Available through Open Access

Koulutuksen digitaalinen datafik(s)aatio

Kasvatus ja Aika.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Monilukutaito ja pedagogisen toiminnan arviointi varhaiskasvatuksessa

Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Monilukutaito varhaiskasvatuksessa : abstrakti käsite ja konkreettista kasvatusta

Monilukutaidon aika. Varhaiskasvatuksen opettajien liitto.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Preservice teachers’ beliefs about young children’s technology use at home

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Dong, Chuanmei

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Sähköä ja alkemiaa : tekoälydiskurssit Yleisradion verkkoartikkeleissa

Media ja viestintä.

Slotte Dufva, Tomi

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Teaching, learning and assessing computational thinking through programming with Scratch in primary schools

JYU Dissertations.

Fagerlund, Janne

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

The pedagogy of multiliteracies as a code breaker : A suggestion for a transversal approach to computing education in basic education

British Journal of Educational Technology.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Using playful methods to understand children’s digital literacies

Research through Play. Sage Publications.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

Varhaiskasvatuksen opettajien käsityksiä mediakasvatuksesta

Journal of Early Childhood Education Research.

Salomaa, Saara

Mertala, Pekka

Karila, Kirsti

Publication

2021

Available through Open Access

What, where, when and how : Finnish children’s perceptions of learning in preschool

Early Child Development and Care.

Mertala, Pekka

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Assessing 4th Grade Students’ Computational Thinking through Scratch Programming Projects

Informatics in Education.

Fagerlund, Janne

Häkkinen, Päivi

Vesisenaho, Mikko

Viiri, Jouni

Publication

2020

Available through Open Access

Luokkahuoneesta datatehtaaksi

Alusta!

Mertala, Pekka

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