{"id":4214,"date":"2016-09-29T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/creative-students-play-in-the-worlds-best-school\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:55:48","slug":"creative-students-play-in-the-worlds-best-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/creative-students-play-in-the-worlds-best-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative students play in the world\u2019s best school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWithout creativity, a sense of wonder and play, none of the great achievements in science or art would\u2019ve been born. When we know how to foster these skills in schools, our children have the best opportunities to grow up to be happy and skilled people,\u201d says Kirsti Lonka, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Helsinki.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the media wants to know about what\u2019s behind Finland\u2019s excellent Pisa results, they call <strong>Kirsti Lonka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the most important thing to remember is that neither school nor people are ever \u2018finished.\u2019 Instead of tests, the most important task of a school is to equip children with good self-confidence and skills for learning. We\u2019ve succeeded well in this in Finland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Short school days, little homework and few tests, small differences between students and excellent learning results \u2013 that equation is admired all over the world. Lonka summarizes Finland\u2019s success in three points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children enter school relatively late, at seven years of age \u2013 before that they learn by playing.<\/li>\n<li>Free education for all.<\/li>\n<li>No unnecessary tests for children \u2013 we take care of all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/170751205\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Getting together in Helsinki to utilize the latest information<\/h3>\n<p>In teaching, we implement solutions every day that we hope will enable children to thrive in the future. However, the world and the skills that we need in it might now change at a faster pace than ever before. That\u2019s why those who develop teaching \u2013 teachers, principals, deans and early education professionals \u2013 bear a massive responsibility for the world of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>At the turn of August and September, Lonka and four other professors as well as experts specializing in fields such as robotics, management and positive psychology will guide participants at the Diploma in Innovation in Education event to get to grips with the latest teaching methods and innovative learning environments. This six-day event will be organized in Helsinki by Aalto University Executive Education (Aalto EE) in cooperation with the University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education HY+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to guiding the event, we want to create an atmosphere where we educators will also learn from the dialogue between educators from all over the world,\u201d says Lonka.<\/p>\n<p>And we should remember that only the smartest creatures in the world know how to play. We adults now need creativity and insights so that we know how to develop learning environments in which our children have the best opportunities to succeed and be inspired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, you\u2019re never too old to play,\u201d says Lonka.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the education program begins, you can talk with Kirsti Lonka about the engaging learning model on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirstiLonka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter @kirstilonka<\/a> with the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23oivaltava&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#oivaltava<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3401\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3401\" src=\"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/LonkaKirsti_2309-10_photoHY_LindaTammisto-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Kirsti Lonka Kuva: HY Linda Tammisto\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Kirsti Lonka 23.9.2010 WOX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Kirsti Lonka is Professor\u00a0of Educational Psychology at the University of Helsinki. She is one of the instructors\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaltoee.com\/program\/diploma-innovation-education\/general-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diploma in Innovation in Education program.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Text Ville Korhonen<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout creativity, a sense of wonder and play, none of the great achievements in science [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uutiset"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyplus.helsinki.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}