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Digital Futures for Education explores AI’s impact on university teaching and learning
Byadmin 6.3.202412.2.2025

Our project leader Prof. Matti Tedre participated in the “Digital Futures for Education” event on 6.3.2024. Read the original news story here: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/2024/05/27/digital-futures-for-education-explores-ais-impact-on-university-teaching-and-learning/ The Digital Futures hub became the focal point for a thought-provoking hybrid event titled “Digital Futures for Education: what is the impact of AI on university teaching and learning?” Hosted by Teresa…

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Yle: Researchers find a way to get young people interested in the risks of the Internet
Byadmin 23.2.202412.2.2025

Yle wrote an article about the Some Machine developed by Generation AI. In the article, Professor Matti Tedre talks about the Some machine, which is currently being tested in schools with fifth and eighth graders. Somekone is an application designed to simulate social media activity. Students first browse through the image stream fed into the…

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YLE AREENA: New tool reveals how social media works
Byadmin 23.2.202412.2.2025

Yle interviewed our project leader Prof. Matti Tedre on 23.2.2024.Listen to the recording here: Social media has become a powerful tool for influence and therefore everyone should understand how social media works. Finnish researchers have developed a tool that makes the principles of the Soma visible. The app is currently being tested in schools. Interview…

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EDUCA24: Finnish primary school pupils get an app and learning materials for AI education
Byadmin 24.1.202412.2.2025

The Generation AI project will publish an AI application and supporting teaching material for primary school pupils. The research-based service allows children and young people to safely learn to understand AI-based technologies. At EDUCA 2024, we will launch a package of materials offering a research-based solution for teaching AI skills in primary schools. The easy-to-use…

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Generation AI will be present at ITK2024! Webinar 2.4.2024
Byadmin 1.1.202412.2.2025

Interactive technology in education 2024 is approaching! Another sure sign of the success of ITK and spring are the ITK webinars. The Generation AI project will host a webinar on 2.4.2024 on “How do I teach AI to students? The Generation AI project presents a research-based solution” https://itk-konferenssi.fi/event/itk-webinaari-2-4-2024-222/register The same theme will also be used…

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YLE: Many researchers exaggerate about the future of AI – three examples show how reality is being faced
Byadmin 28.12.202312.2.2025

YLE interviewed Prof. Teemu Roos on 23.12.2023. Read the full story here: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005737 According to Teemu Roos, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, spectacular predictions about artificial intelligence are often due to the fact that it is easy to downplay the work done by other people.The hype around artificial intelligence shows no…

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HS Opinion: AI is already challenging teachers and students
Byadmin 16.12.202312.2.2025

Opinion piece published in Helsingin Sanomat 16.12.2024. Read the text on the Helsingin Sanomat website: https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000010050103.html AI-based social media services and mobile games, not to mention other applications, are able to guide and even predict our behaviour. They are able to profile and classify us based on the data they constantly collect. The problem is…

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Children’s rights on the internet are unevenly enforced
Byadmin 20.11.202312.2.2025

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes requirements on service providers to determine whether users of their services are children. However, studies have shown that current age verification tools are unreliable. The most commonly used method is self-declaration, where the user has to declare their age, for example by entering their date of birth…

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Smooth Finland with AI – ethically and responsibly
Byadmin 14.11.202312.2.2025

Four times a year, the Finnish Office for Digital and Population Information organises the Sujuva Suomi event to discuss current digitalisation phenomena. This time, the topic was the ethics and responsibility of AI. Professor Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo from Generation AI participated as a panellist. You can watch a recording of the webinar here.

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GenAI involved in Girls’ Day events!
Byadmin 11.10.202312.2.2025

GenAI involved in Girls’ Day events! 400 girls (and boys) visited the University of Oulu on 11 October as part of International Girls’ Day. The Generation AI project also participated in this day by running a workshop on “AI black box – teach the machine”. Did you know that Girls’ Day is a central mission…

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