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The Generation AI project addresses three interconnected societal challenges
We are building a foundation for the AI generation
In the project, we are building a foundation on which we can build technology education for the "AI generation": technology education that takes into account the principles of artificial intelligence, the opportunities it offers and its dynamic impacts – without forgetting its shortcomings and risks or how AI systems can increase confrontation, discrimination, insecurity and erode trust.
Current news
MTV Uutiset: Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo valittiin eduskunnan apulaisoikeusasiamieheksi
MTV Uutiset kertoi 11.3.2026 Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimon tulleen valituksi eduskunnan apulaisoikeusasiamieheksi. Alkuperäinen juttu: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/susanna-lindroos-hovinheimo-valittiin-eduskunnan-apulaisoikeusasiamieheksi/9308714
YLE: Perustuslakivaliokunta esittää apulaisoikeusasiamieheksi Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimoa tai Eeva Nykästä
Yle uutisoi 5.3.2026, että perustuslakivaliokunta esittää apulaisoikeusasiamieheksi Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimoa tai Eeva Nykästä. Alkuperäinen juttu: https://yle.fi/uutiset/lyhyesti/74-20213792
MTV3: Kerrotko tekoälylle sairauksistasi? Professorilta selkeä mielipide
MTV Uutiset haastatteli Teemu Roosia 1.3.2026 tekoälylle jaettavista terveystiedoista sekä arkipäiväisen tekoälykäytön riskeistä. Alkuperäinen juttu: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/kerrotko-tekoalylle-sairauksistasi-professorilta-selkea-ohje-todella-ikavia-tilanteita/9303078
Generation AI EDUCA2025 tapahtumassa
Tervetuloa EDUCA2026 tapahtumaan kokeilemaan uusia sovelluksiamme, erityisesti pientä kielikonetta. Pieni kielikone on maailman ensimmäinen selaimessa (ei tarvitse erillistä palvelinta) toimiva kielimalli, jonka voi kouluttaa omalla aineistolla. Osastollamme pääset kurkistamaan myös uuteen sivustoon (https://www.gen-ai.fi), joka yhdistää sovelluksemme ja opetusmateriaalimme yhdeksi kokonaisuudeksi! Tervetuloa osastolle 6k18 messukeskukseen!
YLE: Tältä näyttää ruma ihminen tekoälyn tuottamana
Yle Oppiminen haastatteli Teemu Roosia 30.6.2025 tekoälyn vinoumista ja siitä, mitä kuvageneraattorit oppivat ihmisten tuottamasta aineistosta. Alkuperäinen juttu: https://yle.fi/a/74-20145829
Lasten ja nuorten tekoälylukutaitoa edistävä Generation AI -hanke on voittanut vuoden 2025 kansallisen Vuoden avoin oppimateriaali -palkinnon.
Lasten ja nuorten tekoälylukutaitoa edistävä Generation AI -hanke on voittanut vuoden 2025 kansallisen Vuoden avoin oppimateriaali -palkinnon. Tunnustus jaettiin tiistaina 27. toukokuuta Avoimen tieteen kesäpäivillä Helsingissä. Palkinnon myöntäjien mukaan Generation AI -hanke on hyvin ajankohtainen, materiaalit ovat avoimesti saatavilla ja ne perustuvat yhteiskehittämiseen, jonka vuoksi vuoden avoimen oppimateriaali palkinto päätettiin myöntää tälle hankkeelle. Generation AI…
We develop tools and materials together
The project brings together technology developers, schools, authorities, companies and civil society organizations. It strengthens children's and young people's ability to face the global societal impacts of technology and produces pedagogical tools for teachers in the transformation of learning.
Project activities
Heureka learning material: Skilled AI
Heureka has published the Skilled AI learning package, which introduces machine learning, AI ethics, and supercomputing themes for school teaching.
Heureka workshop: AI sorter with Arduino
Heureka's learning materials also include an AI sorter with Arduino workshop aimed especially at lower secondary and upper secondary education.
New tools and materials integration site!
New tools and materials integration site is now open! Welcome to explore! Community, feedback and sharing tools will be added to the site later, but even as it is, this update is a major step forward. Materials are no longer on the project website, but together with our unique AI tools designed for educational use, they form a comprehensive whole. The site can be found here: https://www.gen-ai.fi
GenAI Teachable Machine is included in Microsoft's FarmBeats for Students package
Generation AI's Teachable Machine is now used as part of Microsoft's FarmBeats for Students STEM package. The Microsoft Learn module is a beginner-level 10-unit module for K-12 educators.
Somekone 2.0 has been published
A second-generation version of the social media simulator we developed in our project, the SOME Machine, has already been released. For the end-user, the most visible changes include the finalised Finnish language support and more advanced network connectivity management. Teachers often use the “core concepts” version of the machine, where e.g. the link in the…
The machine to be taught was equipped with an XAI tool. Now you can see in real time how the AI classifies the image
A neural network model based on deep learning of the machine being taught was given a heat map view of the AI to be explained. It not only facilitates the use of the app by demonstrating how and what the machine recognises, but also gives students a hands-on experience of how AI works.
The project produces and refines scientific understanding
Helping children and young people understand the technology on which future society is increasingly dependent is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Inspired by this challenge, the "Generation AI" project produces and refines scientific understanding that enables educational solutions that meet the competence needs of the AI generation.
Research
Publication:The data-driven comprehensive school – balancing the protection of children’s personal data with educational objectives
Data is collected almost everywhere, and schools have also become data factories.Data literacy, personal data protection and digital security skills are becoming increasingly important and a prerequisite for participation in society. The concept of datafication describes the transformation of aspects of an individual’s life into digital data that can be used for descriptive, predictive or…
ICALT2024 best paper: a No-Code AI Education Tool for Learning AI in K-12 by Making Machine Learning-Driven Apps
Our lead programmer Nicolas Pope’s paper on a teaching machine was selected as the best paper at the IEEE’s flagship conference on educational technology: Pope, N., Vartiainen, H., Kahila, J., Laru, J., & Tedre, M. (2024). A No-Code AI Education Tool for Learning AI in K-12 by Making Machine Learning-Driven Apps. 2024 IEEE International Conference…
Children's rights have not been adequately considered in the EU's artificial intelligence regulation
Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo wrote a blog post to the European Law Blog on 12.9.2023. Below is a brief summary of the text: Negotiations on the EU's artificial intelligence regulation are ongoing and the topic is widely discussed. However, children's rights have not been given special consideration in the preparation process. Although the regulation proposal has developed in the direction of taking fundamental rights into account, the articles of the regulation have not been written with child protection in mind. The positions of the Commission, Council and Parliament…
Keynote Lecture at ITICSE 23 Conference: "K-12 Computing Education in the Age of AI: From Data Literacy to Data Agency"
Background: Prof. Matti Tedre and University Researcher Henriikka Vartiainen delivered the keynote speech at the ITICSE conference in July 2023. The presentation's English title is: "K-12 Computing Education for the AI Era: From Data Literacy to Data Agency". Read more here: https://iticse.acm.org/2023/keynote-speakers-2/ Machine-translated (chatGPT) summary of the presentation: The question of how to teach traditional rule-based programming has guided much of computing education research since the 1950s. In K-12 (school) contexts, a consensus has emerged over time regarding paradigmatic elements of computing education that assume the computer executes series of instructions guided by a sequence of commands. Within this framework, many researchers have focused on how to help learners develop an accurate mental model of what the computer does when executing a code snippet.
Prof. Tedre Participated in the Humanization of Computing and Engineering Education Symposium in Uppsala
Our project leader, Prof. Matti Tedre participated on 8.6.2023 in Uppsala (Sweden) in a Fireside Chat discussion on the topic "education in the disciplines of computing and engineering, with the goal of humanization in this particular context" Schedule: STARTING TIME ACTIVITY 9:00 AM Opening: Virginia Grande 9:30 AM Keynote: Matilde Sánchez-Peña: positionality, well-being (of teachers and students), and other emerging trends in…
