Juho Kahila
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, Philosophical Faculty
I am a postdoctoral researcher primarily focusing my research on children’s gaming, metagaming, learning, and media consumption. Additionally, my research delves into the datafication of society and explores effective methods for teaching artificial intelligence concepts to children.
Research groups
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DigiErko - Learning and Teaching in Digital Environments Finished 01.11.2017 - 31.12.2025 -
Escape game pedagogy - Sm4rt LOC 01.01.2020 - -
TOTY 17.08.2023 -
Projects
Publications
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Long-Term Impacts of K-12 AI Education Interventions on Social Media Mechanisms
Vartiainen, Henriikka; Kahila, Juho; Pope, Nicolas; López-Pernas, Sonsoles; Valtonen, Teemu; Tedre, Matti, 2026, 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). A4 Conference proceedings -
WIP: Explainable AI is not Self-Explainable: Findings from Design-Based K-12 AI Education
Pope, Nicolas; Kuismin, Maria; Arkko, Eetu; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Kahila, Juho; Tedre, Matti, 2026, 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1-5. A4 Conference proceedings -
An XAI Social Media Platform for Teaching K-12 Students AI-Driven Profiling, Clustering, and Engagement-Based Recommending
Pope, Nicolas; Kahila, Juho; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Saqr, Mohammed; López-Pernas, Sonsoles; Roos, Teemu; Laru, Jari; Tedre, Matti, 2025, Walsh, Toby; Shah, Julie; Kolter, Zico, Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Thirty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Fifteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 29203-29211. A4 Conference proceedings -
Children's AI Design Platform for Making and Deploying ML-Driven Apps: Design, Testing, and Development
Pope, Nicolas; Kahila, Juho; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Tedre, Matti, 2025, IEEE transactions on learning technologies, 18, 130-144. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Failure as a Learning Opportunity in AI Literacy
Hilke, Olli; Pope, Nicolas; Kahila, Juho; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Roos, Teemu; Parkki, Tuomo; Tedre, Matti, 2025, ACM. Poster -
Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences with Using an (X)AI Education Tool for Teaching Social Media Mechanisms
Pope, Nicolas; Lin, Anssi; Kahila, Juho; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Roos, Teemu; Laru, Jari; Tedre, Matti, 2025, Bastiaens, Theo, Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning, 1079-1088. A4 Conference proceedings -
Tekoäly ja data ihmisten arjessa
Iwata, Megumi; Kahila, Juho; Laru, Jari; Lehto, Iiris; Lindroos-Hovinheimo, Susanna; Merikanto-Tolonen, Sanna; Mäkitalo, Kati; Pietarinen, Tarja Hannele; Roos, Teemu; Silvennoinen, Elisa; Snell, Karoliina; Sormunen, Milka, 2025, 133-155. E1 Popularised article, newspaper article -
A Bird Matching Game: Difficulty, Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation
Tyni, Janne; Bednarik, Roman; Kahila, Juho; Tedre, Matti, 2024, International journal of serious games, 11, 4, 57-77. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
A Bird Matching Game: Difficulty, Rewards, and Intrinsic Motivation
Tyni, Janne; Bednarik, Roman; Kahila, Juho; Tedre, Matti, 2024, International journal of serious games, 11, 4, 57-77. A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
A No-Code AI Education Tool for Learning AI in K-12 by Making Machine Learning-Driven Apps
Pope, Nicolas; Vartiainen, Henriikka; Kahila, Juho; Laru, Jari; Tedre, Matti, 2024, Altinay, Zehra; Chang, Maiga; Kuo, Rita; Tlili, Ahmed, Proceedings: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2024, 105-109. A4 Conference proceedings
