Report on EDUREFORM Expert

Talk on Finnish Double flip-

pedagogy-coding and collaboration
with Pirjo Suhonen

15th April,2022 (Friday)

3:30 PM

Chitkara College of Education organised an Edureform expert talk for better understanding of
coding and pedagogy for alpha teachers. Ms. Anushka Dhillon opened the session and

introduced us to Pirjo Suhonen, Global Educational Influencer, Finland, Digital Teacher. She
extended her a warm welcome.
Miss Pirjo Suhonen began with one of her works she created years ago. She is the founder of
ALO Finland. This platform works on curriculum development and implementation. Her passion
includes global collaboration in education, creativity, life-long learning, future innovators and
global citizens. Miss Pirjo has worked not only in Finland but also England, France , Belgium.
She has a Master’s thesis on EdTech. Her list of research works is endless; beginning from
Alaska to Australia, Singapore and more…

ALO Finland works on a research based pedagogy and new national curriculum (2016) put into
practice in schools and classrooms. Courses offered are based on experiential learning – Local
to Global:

•Play, Creativity, Fun

•Early learning and Preschooling

•21st Century learning

•Finnish double flip Coding

•Artificial Intelligence, Flipped and Gamified

She further asked her audience if they knew anything about Finland and Finnish Education.

Ms Pirjo Suhonen firmly goes by the saying “Investment in Education definitely pays off”

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Her platform is an exclusive teacher oriented platform. Teachers are the key indeed. Teachers
and principals are trusted professionals. Curriculum is a broad framework. A Finnish child gets

the same quality education no matter, which school they go to. They aim for 21st C
competences and apply them in their teaching.

The tech lays emphasis on taking care of oneself and others, cultural competency, thinking and
learning to learn, multi-literacy, ICT. It is a student-teacher cantered program where teacher
works as a leader and CO-learner. Not only bookish knowledge but also massive learning and
good citizenship skills to be gained by the learners.

Learning by teaching, another theory that justifies that to be able to teach, you need to learn it
first. She told us how the coding ambassadors continued to deepen their knowledge of code
and ended up 2nd and 3rd in national robotics competitions. However, to be a great learner one
has to abide by the rules of learners’ community, i.e. to take ownership for their own learning
and responsibility of their extended learner’s community.

Towards the end, Miss Pirjo told us why she chose coding and collaboration. The notion of
coding is like learning a new language. It is logical, creative problem-solving, technology
friendly. This truly captured her interest in this field.

At last, the questions from attendees and audiences were taken up.

It was a truly informative session.

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Thank you!

Report by:

Divyadeep Brar

2070991002

B.Ed (4th semester)