Reagrding the differences between traditional and digital technologies:
--Virtually all the traditional technologies share three characteristics: specificity, stability, and transparency (see Figure 3). traditional classroom technologies have specific uses, are relatively stable over time, and are transparent or easy to understand.
The truth of Koehler & Mishra's (2009) statement that ―digital technologies-such as computers, handheld devices, and software applications-by contrast, are protean (usable in many different ways . . .); unstable (rapidly changing); and opaque (the inner workings are hidden from users)‖ is demonstrated daily in preservice and inservice teacher
development programs where teachers struggle to understand how to use a range of digital technologies and why they should
You may have heard about the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as the organization that runs the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).OECD released the report of their new international study on teacher professionalism, using the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013, a survey of teachers and principals in 34 countries and economies around the world. Dian Schaffhauser's article in The Journal summarizes the highlights of this study.
The aim of this study is to reveal how well online communities of practice (oCoPs) help teachers share explicit knowledge and bring their tacit knowledge to the surface.
Adıgüzel, A. (2010). İlköğretim okullarında öğretim teknolojilerinin durumu ve sınıf öğretmenlerinin bu teknolojileri kullanma düzeyleri. Dicle Üniversitesi Ziya Gökalp Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 15, 1-17. Akıncı, A., Kurtoğlu, M. ve Seferoğlu, S.S. (2012). Bir teknoloji politikası olarak FATİH Projesinin başarılı olması için yapılması gerekenler: Bir durum analizi çalışması.
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.
This is the abstract of a research study . In this study they invited a research panel (six researchers) and an expert panel (54 science-related educators) to propose and validate the framework of TPACK-practical. They applied two rounds of anonymous communications and Delphi survey techniques; identified a total of eight dimensions of TPACK-practical and corresponding indicators and rated them as having high levels of importance. They found disciplinary differences between the different groups of experts. Their findings suggest that the structure and content of subject matter shapes not only the way they teach with technology but also the thinking logics they build longitudinally from their learning experiences
While I was doing research on TPACK, I saw that validity of TPACK-practical model was examined in Turkish context.In that study, it was revealed that the adapted form of the survey exhibited the same item-factor harmony and structure as the original form. Here is the link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131515001189
My Good-Evil oscillation ambigram design is easily one of my most popular designs - having made it to multiple publications, websites, covers of magazines, on the TV Show Brain Games... and now it has made its way into a medical research journal Frontiers of Physiology in an article on (of all things), cardiac remodeling.
It is an article about use of infrographic for introduction to Criminal Justice Course. It is taken from International Journal on New Trends in Education and Tehir Implication(IJONTE).
I could not reach my tweets under our hashtag on Twitter. :( Therefore, I wanted to share two sources for this week's discussion about mobile learning. This one is a research study for pre-service math teachers who utilize mobile learning through IPADs. It has quite promising and positive results!