Educational Technology at the University of Tartu

25/09/2026

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! [❤️]

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.

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)

18/08/2026

Our students had the opportunity to meet Mihkel Mariusz Jezierski from the AI Leap (TI Hüpe) initiative and hear about what young people themselves think of AI, what are their views, visions, uncertainties about using it in education and the role they see it having in society. This is quite unique as often the focus is on teachers rather than students.

More about the World Cafés that Mihkel has been organising across Estonian schools to gather students’ input can be found here: https://tihupe.ee/en/students-want-schools-to-establish-clear-rules-for-ai-use/

16/08/2026

The first week of the August session as seen by our students.

15/08/2026

With today the first long block of our August session has come to an end. Our students will finally be able to rest on Sunday to then be ready for the last two days of our onsite session.
For you to get the “vibe” of this long week, we made a video. We actually used a 21-year-old camera. After all we keep saying we are postdigital!
(Camera work by and Emanuele. Editing by Emanuele).

15/08/2026

With today the first long block of our August session has come to an end. Our students will finally be able to rest on Sunday to then be ready for the last two days of our onsite session.
For you to get the "vibe" of this long week, we made a video. We actually used a 21-year-old camera. After all we keep saying we are postdigital!
(Camera work by Pirjo and Emanuele. Editing by Emanuele).

14/08/2026

Our students spent couple of days wrapping their heads around educational video making, the role of videos in teaching and learning, what makes a videos educational and what we actually need in order to make one. A shared understanding was that it’s not about having a lot of fancy tools but seeing what the tools we already have allow us to do; that is, exploring, tinkering and reworking both what we believe specific tools to be for as well as the tools themselves. And only when what we have begins to feel too limiting should we consider adding something new to out toolbox.

Thinking about video also took us beyond the physical classroom. A classroom can be distributed across different spaces and places but also across different moments in time. We often talk about synchronous and asynchronous learning but most likely the temporal dimension goes further than that. Learning sometimes happens much later than teaching. Something encountered in class may seem irrelevant at the times, yet it may stay with us and only makes sense long after we have left the classroom where ewe learned it behind. So maybe the classroom is not only a physical place but we always carry a classroom within us?

And sometimes not just what we learn but learning itself takes a little getting used to. It’s a bit like putting on a pair of funny glasses that take time getting used to.