Programme

Venue: Sallatunturin Tuvat, Sallatunturi, Finland

Tuesday 23 April 2019 – Arrival day
Flights from Helsinki to Kuusamo at 12:30 – 13:45 and 20:15 – 21:30. Bus connection from airport to Salla at 14:00 and at 21:45.
Check-in at Sallatunturin Tuvat

14:00 – 17:00 Optional excursion: Lapp hut safari
A snowmobile safari through forested trails to a Lapp hut near Ruuhitunturi fell. Along the trip you can enjoy a reindeer burger and coffee. Duration of the safari is around three hours and distance about 30 km.

18:00 – 19:00 Registration
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome reception, Sallatunturin Tuvat, Restaurant Kiela

Wednesday 24 April 2019
08:30 – 08:45 Conference opening
- Welcoming Address by Dr. Heli Ruokamo, University of Lapland,
Professor, Faculty of Education, Director, Media Education Hub
- Greetings from CICERO by Research director Mari Tervaniemi (by video)

08:45 – 09:30 Keynote 1: Renee Hobbs, Professor, Founder and Director of the Media Education Lab, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA
Presentation title: Mind Over Media: Teaching and Learning about Contemporary Propaganda

09:30 – 10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00 – 11:30 SESSION 1: Media and Digital literacies
11:30 – 12:35 Lunch

12:35 - 12:45 Greetings from SAMK, rector Jari Multisilta, Chairperson
12:45 – 13:30 Keynote 2: Eric Hamilton, Ph.D., International Bureau of Education, UNESCO (on leave from Pepperdine University), Geneva, Switzerland
Presentation title: Global competencies, media, and collaboration in next generation and mid-century learning and education

13:30 – 14:00 Coffee/tea
14:00 – 15:00 SESSION 2: Digital Media and Technologies in Everyday Life and Well-being
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 17:00 SESSION 3: Media and ICT in Teaching and Learning

17:00 – 20:00 Free time for outdoor activities
20:00 – 22:00 Lappish Hut Evening at the Salla Reindeer Park

Thursday 25 April 2019
08:30 – 08:45 Opening of the day
- Greetings from the Finnish Society on Media Education by
Associate Professor Päivi Rasi, Chairperson
- Greetings from the National Audiovisual Institute’s Department
for Media Education and Audiovisual Media (MEKU) by Researcher Lauri Palsa

08:45 – 09:30 Keynote 3: Fausto Colombo, Professor of Media and Communication Theory, Head of Department of Communication
and Performing Arts, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Presentation title: Something old in the new. Something new in the old. Elderly learning in the digital mediascape

09:30 – 10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00 – 11:15 SESSION 4: Media and Digital Literacies
11:15 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 14:00 SESSION 5: Media and ICT in Teaching and Learning
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee/tea
14:30 – 16:00 SESSION 6: Playful and Game‐based Learning

19:00 – Conference closing dinner
Hosted by Mayor Erkki Parkkinen, Municipality of Salla
Sallatunturin Tuvat, Restaurant Kiela

Flights from Kuusamo to Helsinki at 13:50 and 21:30. Bus connection from Salla to airport at 10:35 and 18:15.
The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the programme.

FINAL PROGRAMME WITH ALL PRESENTATIONS (PDF)