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This article displays statistics and inadequacies of FATİH project and presents what and how should be done to make this project effective.

so fantastic, hard to imagine..

The history of classroom technology is long and storied. From the horn-book to the iPad, see how teaching and learning tools have evolved in the classroom through the years.

Where is old time's powerpoint: Overhead Projector? :)

Ahmet, I think it did not catch attention as a revolutionary device :)

This week we are going to look at how we can use flipped classroom in our classrooms - as a teacher. This link provides a student perspective to this technology.

Very interesting indeed! It would be helpful if the author illustrated further the data analysis process, including coding. One challenge working with self-report data is that it's self reported. It's important to add more direct data sources for triangulation purpose, analyses of documents, e.g., lesson plans, in this particular case with preservice teachers. I would recommend observations. In fact, Evrim and I have been working with a few colleagues on an observation study among exemplary teachers with technology integration with the goal to visualize TPACK. That's one of the focuses in my dissertation. I designed a TPAKC-in-Action model to guide the CALL teacher education workshops and conducted them with inservice English teachers in Taiwan. After completed those workshops, I went to teachers' classrooms and observe their teaching. There have been some interesting and amazing findings and results! Will share more with everyone in June. Before then,...

More on this Many North Carolina students had class for only two days in the last two weeks because of the icy weather. But that doesn't mean some of them haven't been learning, or that teachers have stopped teaching. On Friday morning at Millbrook High School in Wake County, Mark Grow carefully sidestepped an icy pathway where someone was shoveling. There is no snow holiday!

The flipped classroom inverts traditional teaching methods, delivering instruction online outside of the classroom and moving "homework" into the classroom.

"Children learn best when the content is relevant to them and when they can connect new learning with old," says Marcia Baldanza, principal of Patrick Henry Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia. Finding the Velcro to make those connections can be challenging, but with games, it's easy."

A cheatsheet of edtech concepts and trends from sms to byod for EdTech beginners.

Yasin, my contention is that you cannot motivate anyone "to read, research, be self-directed, explore" id they do not wish to be motivated in the first place. It is virtually impossible. What we can do is to serve as a model to them by depicturing what they can achieve provided that they possess these skills. I totally agree with you that the amount of generation gap between us and those who are only five to ten years younger is paramount, but I am pretty sure they'll find their own way as they grow up. Or, most of them will have to if they are to lead a good life because the skills you mentioned are now regarded as survival skills.

Yasin and Hakan, I agree with both of you. I also think that first we need to acknowledge our students are different. I may even call them humans 2.0 :) and yes their attention span is rather short and is getting shorter, and so is ours. I, as a teacher, suffer from it and have my own strategies. Maybe we can help students in that, too. Also, I really don't think they don't want to "read, research, be self-directed, explore". When something enters into their "radar", they can turn into autonomous and motivated researchers! I know that I am pointing out to the obvious, but we need te revise what we teach and how we teach. As also stated in the Horizon Report 2016: " In order to remain motivated, students need to be able to make clear connections between the curriculum and the real world, and how the new knowledge and skills will impact them."

New version of TI-Nspire calculator that can be used in math and science lessons

A brief news about the usage of Diigo in classroom.

This may help to overcome Discovery challenge of Open Education Resources

Creative Commons is a thing when you are into OER business. This kinda infographic showed its pathway in a clear way. Thanks, Özlem!

The author of this article tries to answer why so many teachers are resistant to mobile devices in their classrooms although their students tend to believe that smartphones and laptops can assist their learning. After reading the text, I realized how social attitude toward mobile learning can be a decisive factor in terms of its integration into education.