Petteri Vanninen, Sinikka Pöllänen, Anu Liljeström, Henriikka Vartiainen, Jorma Enkenberg, Ismo Pellikka, University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna Campus, @uef.fi

Forests in Teacher education: The OpenForest portal as

a novel resource for learning

Forests in Teacher education: The OpenForest portal as a novel resource for learning

Petteri Vanninen, Sinikka Pöllänen, Anu Liljeström, Henriikka Vartiainen, Jorma Enkenberg, Ismo Pellikka

University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna Campus

@uef.fi

Why Forests in our teacher education?

• As a new kind of learning environment for 21:st century skills

• Forests are very important in Finland– Economical meaning

– Social meaning

– Ecological meaning

• changes increase, world is more interconnected and complex

• work at school is divided to unnatural parts (Perkins 2008)

• school system has not been significant learning environment and learning experiences have not been meaningful (Sunnari 1999)

• problems in schooling and learning and violence-related problems are increasing (Kämppi et al 2008)

http://foris.fao.org/static/data/fra2010/

• Forests mirror the development of society– Forest industry is in change

• raw material=> products=> services

• Carbon binding, biodiversity, tourism

• New kind of skills and thinking are needed in our forestry• How to teach them?

• Challenging the pupils and students for this

Participatory

learning

Self-

learning

Participation in

communities

Personal learning

environment

Social

media

Students as

architects

Students as

co-researchersTechnology

Co-

development

Situated context

for learning

LEARNING

TH E ORE TICA L

FRA ME WORK

OpenForest www.openmetsa.fi