ILE visits Buenos Aires for a Mini Symposium on STEAM education
For this innovative hybrid event, we were fortunate to be in touch with Dra. MarÃa Cristina Kanobel, who, along with colleagues from the Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico helped the visitors from Europe (Finland, Austria) host this mini-symposium with Zsolt Lavicza, a professor in STEAM Education Research Methods, from JKU Linz School of Education, Matias Mäki-Kuutti and Orsolya Tuba, project researchers from the JYU, and of course our very own Kristóf Fenyvesi, joining to speak online all the way from a cabin in Lapland, Finland, temporarily halting his winter holidays for the event!
First, Dr. Prof. Zsolt Lavicza talked about STEAM education innovation research and 3D-printing, creativity, transdisciplinary education, as well as use of VR, and AR technologies in education. Secondly, Dr. Kristof Fenyvesi introduced our ongoing TFK-funded projects FinnUruSteam and MultiLED projects in Uruguay, projects dealing with school environments and social-emotional learning environment frameworks, holistic pedagogical practices from Finland that span across the entire formal and informal learning journey of children. We then continued to introduce the Finnish educational system, along with some interesting facts about the Finnish society and its culture.
Researchers Matias Mäki-Kuutti and Orsolya Tuba continued to introduce the Finnish Institute for Educational Research and our Innovative Learning Environments research team’s current projects in education with focus on STEAM and technology enhanced learning, social-emotional education, and sustainability.
This multilingual event was made possible by Dra. MarÃa Cristina Kanobel helping translate the English-speakers’ presentations into Spanish, along with occasional translation help from our JYU team’s Matias Mäki-Kuutti. The symposium was moderated by: Dra. MarÃa Cristina Kanobel (Directora del Grupo de investigación sobre Innovación y TecnologÃa para la Enseñanza-UTN) and Dra. MarÃa Gabriela Galli (Secretaria Académica del Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico-UTN). Thank you!
This was a fantastic opportunity for us to share knowledge about our ongoing projects! After-event discussions led to ideas and opportunities for project cooperations and other means of research collaboration with our research and education friends overseas! This event was invaluable for exploring international collaboration, and mutual learning towards finding local solutions to global problems. We will be back for sure!
To read more about our journeys in South America, click on the linked news below!
