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Deniz. Thanks for sharing. I am also the member of http://www.classroom20.com/ which is created by Steve Hargadon as well.

"Linking, developing and supporting English Language Teaching professionals worldwide" is the motto of IATEFL. I think it is one of the biggest field in ELT. There are many seminars, webinars and also some articles are done under the cover of this community. It is really appreciated but to join you need to pay around 56 $.

Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils' performance, says a global study from the OECD. The think tank says frequent use of computers in schools is more likely to be associated with lower results. The OECD's education director Andreas Schleicher says school technology had raised "too many false hopes".

I think the report does not show that technology is useless, but shows that we still need enourmous work on learning and teaching effective use of it. Here is another piece of news showing many teachers use technology for teacher-centered, traditional education. It brought my mind the concept of "teacher effect" that we talked in the class. " Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach" http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/06/11/why-ed-tech-is-not-transforming-how.html?cmp=ew-tc15-eml&utm_content=buffer3067c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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.

This is a case study conducted in pre-service teachers in Sydney. They observed the impact of a new curriculum adaptation and evaluated teachers' TPACK perceptions with a survey. The results displayed a positive effect on pre-service teachers' ICT tools during teaching with the help of TPACK.

"To bring you closer to how you can use social media in your teaching, I am sharing with you the graphic below that features several tips on how to leverage the power of SNSs in your classroom." An exemplary infographics.

This article demonstrates some visual diagrams related to TPACK. These are funny and interesting due to dream worlds of teacher candidates.

This article is really easy to read and with its good visual demostrations. It also shows us that as all teachers independent from which course they are teaching they are in a way have to use technology integration into their classes. This an example from science teachers and mine is an example from mathematics teaching.

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.

A flipped class keeps student learning at the center of teaching by enabling instructors to guide their students higher levels of application and deeper thinking. This table shows the differences in the student experience of a traditional and flipped class.

Over the past two years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new locations. While the debate goes on, the concept of Flipped Learning is not entirely new.

Is this new style of teaching a more efficient way of educating today's students?

"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."

I've never come across with AR use with young learners till this video. I have always thought that AR is more suitable for adult learners, but this video showed me how to integrate a complex -hi-tech app into young learner teaching setting. Thanks Melike!

The review highlights the pros and cons of facilitating weblogs for Englsih language teaching.

This qualitative study was conducted to gain insights into the perceptions of prospective English language teachers at a state university in Turkey on flipped classrooms and to introduce the implementation of a flipped classroom into an English language class. The results were interesting and there are useful recommendations for implementing flipped language lessons.

"the secret words" idea seems to be very creative. I wonder how it is implemented. I also wish we could be able to learn what they do in the classroom in this specific example. I really wonder how classroom activities work in flipped elt classes.

Sebahat Hocam, maybe we can contact the authors and ask about it.

The infographic is about how teachers can integrate Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube and Wordpress into education.It suggests that there are four dimensions. They are connect, notify, teach and curate.

The tips in this infographic are really good Ecenaz. Thank you for sharing them. In my opinion, the best thing about it is that the tips are highly integrable for all disciplines.

Ece, this is a very helpful guide for teachers on how to use social media in classroom.