Autumn 2022

New course on Global Media Education, 5 ECTS

• From 20 September to 18 October 2022
• Hybrid teaching: Online and face-to-face
• Lecturers from the University of Lapland and Education University of Hong Kong
• Themes of the course

1. Digital Divide and its Consequences in Media Education
2. Artificial Intelligence Literacy
3. Fact-checking as a new civic skill - Developing European Fact-checking program
4. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and well-being
5. Digitalizing Reindeer Herding Studies
6. Interciltural Communication in the Digital Age
7. Finnish Pioneering Projects IkäihME and OdigO Support Media Literacies and Digital Competences of Aging Population

Participants: 18 students from 10 different countries.

First visit from University of Lapland to the Education University of Hong Kong, December 2022

The GloMEd -project's principal investigator from the University of Lapland, Dr Satu-Maarit Korte had the pleasure of visiting Education University of Hong Kong in December 2022. The project team met in the beautiful Tai Po campus and planned the project's collaborative activities and reciprocal visits for the year 2023. 

Here in the Education-plus magazine you can find a news piece on the visit and project activities in the December 2022 issue page 14-15. Education-plus Dec 2022 ｜ 超越教育 2022年12月 (educationplus.hk)

Photos: The Education University of Hong Kong.

Following visits from University of Lapland to the Education University of Hong Kong, Spring 2023

During the spring 2023 Dr Satu-Maarit Korte gave a lecture on the psychosocial well-being of young people in Northern Finland, and talked about the youth's experiences on remote learning and potential strategies for success. She also gave a lecture on Finnish teacher education and discussed the possible secrets behind the success of it. Dr Mari Maasilta gave a lecture on the dangers and promises of social media from the point of view of media educators.

Visit  from the Education University of Hong Kong to University of Lapland in Rovaniemi in June 2023

In June 2023 team members from the Education University of Hong Kong visited Rovaniemi for workshops, planning of future activities and to familiarise with Lapland culture! The team members that visited are Professor Chi Kin John Lee VP(AC) & Provost of the Education University of Hong Kong and Unesco Chair, Professor Ming Yue Michelle Gu, Associate Professor Lixun Wang, Assistant Professor Lau Chaak Ming and Hei Tung Hilton Cheung.

During the workshop days the team members also had the opportunity to meet with the Vice Rector, Professor Satu Uusiautti, Director of International Relations Mari-Anna Suurmunne, and the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Professor Tuija Turunen who is also UArctic chair and the leader of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Network on Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity.

Here you can find a news piece on the visit in English: International Course on Global Media Education Highlights AI Literacy (ulapland.fi) 

In Finnish: Kansainvälinen globaalin mediakasvatuksen kurssi korostaa tekoälyn lukutaitoa (ulapland.fi)

JoLII-GINTL Global Conference "Education for the Future" 15.-17.08.2023 

University of Helsinki, Finland

The Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute (JoLII) and Global Innovation Network for Teaching & Learning (GINTL) organise in collaboration a conference which emphasises the need for a new social contract for education to repair injustices, while transforming the future. 

Our team member Satu-Maarit Korte is going to present the projects' findings so far with her presentation "Intercultural online workshops on Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy" which describes how the students' understanding of AI concepts evolved and their cultural sensitivity developed during the international Global Media Education course, based on their experiences and perceptions. Given the widespread use of AI in today's globalized world, it is crucial to foster AI literacy in intercultural contexts and teach future teachers these aspects.

More information on the conference can be found here JoLII-GINTL Global Conference 2023: "Education for the Future" - GINTL

Visit from the Education University of Hong Kong to University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, August 2023

Professor Siu Cheung Kong, Educational Development Manager Dr William Man Yin Cheung, Associate Professor Lixun Wang and Assistant Professor Lau Chaak Ming visited the University of Lapland 19-24 August for planning of the teaching activities of the coming autumn and to start the Artificial Intelligence literacy workshops with the international students. 

The projects' activities were reported also in in the Lapland University's students´  Journal "Lapin Ylioppilaslehti". You can see the article in Finnish here: https://lapinylioppilaslehti.fi/2023/08/11/tekoaly-ihmisen-tukena/ 

On the 25th of August the Hong Kong team's Professor Siu Cheung Kong, Lixun Wang, William Man Yin Cheung and Chaak Ming Lau together with Satu-Maarit Korte  and Professor Pigga Keskitalo  visited the project funding agent, Finnish National Agency for Education, Team Finland Knowledge in Helsinki, Finland.

ICITL 2023 International Conference of Innovative Technologies and Learning, Porto, Portugal
28 – 30 August, 2023

From our team the Educational Development Manager Dr William Man Yin Cheung and Associate Professor Lixun Wang will be representing our project and present two scientific articles that will be published during the conference. 

William Man Yin Cheung's presentation is titled "Nurturing Artificial Intelligence Literacy in Students with Diverse Cultural Backgrounds" and Lixun Wang's presentation title is "Intercultural collaborative teaching and learning in online environments – e-quality in global media education case study".

More information of the conference is found here ICITL2023

MEC 2023 "Media Education Meets Wilderness" Conference, Salla, Finland 
25 – 27 September, 2023

In Salla, Lapland, Professor Siu-Cheung Kong will give a keynote speech on the topic "Artificial Intelligence Literacy: A Framework and Evaluation Outcomes in Senior Secondary and Higher Education. The project findings will be presented in the conference by Professor Siu-Cheung Kong, Satu-Maarit Korte and Mari Maasilta in their presentation Intercultural teaching and learning online: A case of Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy. 

More information about the conference is found here MEC 2023