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Education and technology are interconnected. This synergy is able to transform the world we live in. The contradictory phenomenon is that while being an early adopter of technology, education is also one of the last sectors to be fully transformed by it, due to institutional inertia and a number of other reasons.

For researchers, digital teaching portfolios that include newer, multimedia technologies provide largely unexplored possibilities to measure teachers' understanding and use of technology.

We will discuss the no significance difference phenomenon in the class.

when I first read the name of writing, I expect that there will be an extensive criticise about the role of technology in the field of education. However, after reading all the article I come up with the conclusion that this article just say what I think of before and now. "The state of being significance or not is totally depend on the purpose in your question" By the way, do you really think our two smart classes (EF-01, EF-22) in faculty of education leads to significant difference on both teaching and learning?

Mustafa, technology itself of course does not lead to any significant change. We will see what TPACKers say about it this week.

In this link, you will find Pearson's report on social media use in higher education (2013). The report highlights which social media tools faculty members use for personal and professional reasons and their frequency.

Ceren, this link will be very helpful for us in the classroom discussion. Thank you for these detailed survey results. They explain the impact of social media in education, use of social media by different disciplines and by sites. It also gives information about concerns. Very explanatory survey results.

"Teachers new to using technology in the classroom may be overwhelmed at a number of available options or may not know which tools are effective and which tools are just a distraction." this infographic suggests some ways overcome the confusion of technological tools.

a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

This article empahizes benefits of TPACK in integrating technology into special education and also suggests implications for preservice teacher education.

This is a research study carried out in Turkey. To assess pre-service English as a foreign language teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge, Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Scale was used and students were asked to answer some open-ended questions. The results of the study revealed a highly developed knowledge of TPACK among undergraduate students of an ELT program at a public university in Turkey. On the basis of the results, it is suggested that the integration of content, pedagogy and technological knowledge into the existing teacher education paradigm and fostering technologically-rich environment for language learners will contribute to quality learning and teaching.

Neil Postman is an important critical theorist in the field of education. We will have frequent references to his work during the semester. Here and in many other Youtube videos he is sharing his insights on the purpose of education.

"When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you'll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within." - Kio Start Loved this quote !! + I am shocked to see how they used vine videos to explain science :)

The warning for social media privacy is quite an important aspect, indeed. Thanks for this educative article, Özlem!

It's an article about integrating technology into teacher education. The authors have focused a standart-based approach in their research and we can reach their activities via weblinks.

I am interested in checking out Google Course Builder!

Me too, very intriguing! Think of the possibility and potential to synthesize the pool of Google tools!!!

In this article, there are some items mentioned which are getting trendy and which the teachers may want to keep up with.

This infographic summarizes the 4 key findings of a study with more than 600 K-12 teachers. Among the key findings are 3 barriers that are considered by the participants to have the potential to prevent them from using more technology in their classes. Two of the barriers mentioned, lack of technical support and training, are pretty common in the literature, but the third one was interesting to me. 33% of the participants argued that because they cannot figure out whether a student is on task or not while performing something on a technological device, they refrain from using it.

This presentation is the most effective ı have ever seen. And also last minutes of the presentaion, it gives important mesages. I again see that technology can change everything in education. In what way? for example as Mishra presented, you can do lecture in your class but it can be followed all around the world even if it is a lecture. You can spread your lecture through the world. If you are a little bit creative, you can develop your presentation or teaching/learning activitives and make them very effective. At that point technology usage is not only using computers or smart boards, it also helps gaining attention, makes your classroom activities more global. Mishra gives emphasis on effective usage of technology. An email can be used as a reminder or a storage area. So the final point is that teachers should be equipped for usaing technology in their classroom not only in sake of using it but also bringing up creative, collaborative, sharer generations.

The results of the current study show that teachers involved in Fatih Project were especially content with being able to make their lessons visually more appealing for their students. They were, however, not satisfied with the in-service training provided, especially in understanding ways to effectively integrate the technologies into their teaching, and the limitations put upon Internet access from the tablets. The impacts of these tools on their teaching practices were very minimal.

You probably came across the famous quote by Dr. Ray Clifford saying "Technology will not replace teachers, but teachers who do not use technology will be replaced." Well, that might change sooner than we had anticipated. Some companies have been working very hard for several years to manufacture real-time translation devices like the one mentioned in the article attached. Although most of the attempts are too immature to be taken seriously, I think we will have devices in the next decade that are able to translate satisfactorily across languages. Whether this will have a tangible impact on language teaching professionals is yet to be seen.

The flipped classroom describes a reversal of traditional teaching where students gain first exposure to new material outside of class, usually via reading or lecture videos, and then class time is used to do the harder work of assimilating that knowledge through strategies such as problem-solving, discussion or debates.

Here you can find activity examples for that can be used in-class for the flipped classroom. You should see the group activity examples which are interesting.

Some of these assessment tools will be a part of our in-class discussion, Sezin. Thanks for sharing!

Indeed, some of these activities could also be used for our TPACK game. Thanks :)