Pekka Mertala
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General description
I work as an assistant professor (multiliteracy and digital literacies) at the Teacher Education Department of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä. I lead the Education, Texts and Technologies research group as well as work within the LearnDigi - Digitalization in and for learning and interaction reserach profiling area,
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education, Assistant Professor
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Teacher Education (University of Jyväskylä), Assistant Professor, Ended
- Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius (University of Jyväskylä), Part-Time Teacher, Ended
Research interests
- Critical educational technology research, especially how technology and education are discussed.
- Datafication and data literacy in school (Modality project) and leisure time (Running with Data project).
- Children's perceptions of technology and media (e.g., Innokas Artificial Intelligence projects).
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Data literacy; Data literacy education; Multiliteracies; New Literacies; Critical educational technology research
Projects as Principal investigator
- Movement for Data Literacy
- Research Council of Finland
Projects as Team Member
- Imagining possible futures: Multidisciplinary engagements with access, agency and participation
- Sulkunen, Sari
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
- Resilient schools and the education system
- Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina
- Research Council of Finland
Publications and other outputs
