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Our AI ambassador Maia (Майа Луст) is at the ICL conference in Cologne, where the collective focus is on how AI is chang...
01/10/2026

Our AI ambassador Maia (Майа Луст) is at the ICL conference in Cologne, where the collective focus is on how AI is changing education in the field of engineering. She brings out a sentiment expressed by IGIP president and TalTech professor Tiia Rüütmann, who said that nowadays it is especially important to design learning for metacognition, namely for thinking about how we're thinking. In the end, the responsibility still lies with humans both to decide how to use what AI gives us, and to be mindful of what it may take from us.

30/09/2026

Dr Leo Siiman on how AI will cause our cognitive abilities to shift, not disappear.

Leo is an associate professor of Educational Technology at the University of Tartu.

Watch the full discussion on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x79BM0bXF60

30/09/2026

Anna Bedina on what we really want AI (not) to do for us in education.

Anna is a teacher and alumna of the Educational Technology Master's programme.

Watch the full discussion on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x79BM0bXF60

29/09/2026

Dr Leo Siiman on the creative limitations of AI.

Leo is an associate professor of Educational Technology at the University of Tartu.

Watch the full discussion on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x79BM0bXF60

29/09/2026

Anna Bedina on the importance of struggle in the classroom.

Anna is a teacher and alumna of the Educational Technology Master's programme.

Watch the full discussion on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x79BM0bXF60

On Friday our Tartu Ülikooli haridusteaduste instituut celebrated its 25th anniversary. Our center joined the celebratio...
26/09/2026

On Friday our Tartu Ülikooli haridusteaduste instituut celebrated its 25th anniversary. Our center joined the celebration by organizing a panel discussion featuring Emanuele, Leo, and our alumna Anna Bedina, who discussed possible answers to the question "What futures is AI contributing to creating in education?".

Since its arrival in the classroom, AI has made the conditions under which education is intelligible less and less obvious. In this sense, AI may be compared to the COVID-19 pandemic, which also disrupted education, with one major difference, though: we knew that, sooner or later, the pandemic would come to an end, whereas AI is forcing us to think about how to make education viable again.

During the panel, Emanuele, Leo, and Anna discuss what we might need to change, what changes we should pursue, and what is worth preserving from the past.

The link to the recording is in the first comment.

Our centre has a new employee as of this week! Emma is our new assistant, which means dealing with administration, R&D p...
01/09/2026

Our centre has a new employee as of this week! Emma is our new assistant, which means dealing with administration, R&D project coordination and, yes, social media too [😉]
Looking forward to a long and fruitful collaboration! [❤️]

For those of you who are interested, this is an event taking place over Zoom, on Friday August 28 at 13 UK Time (15 Esto...
24/08/2026

For those of you who are interested, this is an event taking place over Zoom, on Friday August 28 at 13 UK Time (15 Estonian time). Professor Sonia Livingstone will be introducing Digital Futures for Children’s new report: ‘Assessing the impact of using EdTech on children’s learning: A scoping review of meta-analyses.’

The report is here: https://lnkd.in/dPdsCHaa

To join the event, you should complete this form: https://lnkd.in/dHWSA3pS

More info here: https://lnkd.in/d3-WpxfA

This is an event organised by the "Critical Studies of AI and Education Network" our Centre for Educational Technology is supporting.

And it’s done!The August session 2026 has finished, yet it was not a time for goodbyes! but for see you’s! as the progra...
19/08/2026

And it’s done!

The August session 2026 has finished, yet it was not a time for goodbyes! but for see you’s! as the programme will now continue online for the next ten months.

On the last day, our classroom was once again distributed across time and space: our onsite students were joined by alumni from almost all previous cohorts, who came online for a catch-up, an exchange of experiences and a glimpse of what lies ahead.

And of course, the cameras were busy on the last day too, though not always in the expected direction as the “hunters became the hunted” (Serhii, 2026), being captured while taking photos of students. Thank you for the photos to Natalja Aktsõznaja (photo 6) and Serhii Kovalenko (photo 7)

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