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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.

This can be atract your interest. It will be more execited for whom want to study teacher education.

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

SITE 2016 in Savannah, Georgia, March 21-25, is the 27th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education ... I know that it is late to say for this conference but I thought that maybe the studies can be followed by this conference news.

This link is also related with the conference and useful for us. http://site.aace.org/sigs/tpack-sig/

In this website, learning activities to plan instruction for different subject areas and tools to assess evidence of teachers' knowledge for technology integration such as "Technology Integration Assessment Rubric" and "Technology Integration Observation Instrument" are shared. I think they can be quite beneficial for designing qualitative TPACK research.

Ecenaz, thank you for sharing this useful website. I liked that they match activities and strategies with possible technologies and stages together in detail. It might be a guide for a T-pack based instruction design or for our class project on T-pack.

Thank you Ecenaz for this good and useful website. It is related with the topic of week four. Moreover, "Technology Integration Assessment Rubric" and "Technology Integration Observation Instrument" are mentioned in Archambault's article.

There are many data collection tools regarding TPACK, but they measure components of TPACK (PK, CK, TK, TPK, TCK, PCK, TPCK) separately. In this study, a reliable and valid scale was developed to measure TPCK component, which is the intersection point of three main components.It was found that TPCK component consists of four constructs/dimensions. They are design, exertion, proficiency and ethics.

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.

These tools are included in a master thesis written by Muhammad Fauzan Ansyari in 2012. His study used different data collection tools such as TPACK and TAC questionnaires, a lesson plan rubric adapted from Harris, Grandgenett, and Hofer's Technology Integration Assessment Rubric, interviews about TPACK, and the researcher's logbook. They can be found in Appendices part of this thesis.

It is interesting to notice that this research study has also similar findings in terms of the problems and weaknesses in FATIH Project. It was conducted with information technologies guide teachers and it reached similar results as the lack of training for both teachers and students, and the lack of required materials to be used by both teachers and students.

I could not tweet because of the problems in my Twitter account; that is why, I would like to share the resources I have found here. :) This research study aims to learn about classroom teachers point of views about FATIH Project. Half of the teachers think that the project will be a failure because of technical problems of tablets, lack of teacher's technological competency and the training of teachers. However, they think that the project may help students in terms of not carrying heavy bags and providing a better, tehcnology-enriched learning atmosphere.

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!

Fatih Cağatay Baz, Adana Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Computer Engineering Department, Department Member. Studies Hod of computer engineering, Technology Integration, and Fatih Projesi. His articles about Mooc and Fatih Project..

Here you can see the review of Fatih Project and recommendations of the authors in accordance with their case study.

There is a project of UNESCO and Nokia which conducted in four different countries.

We have seen in our last class that using TPACK in classroom is actually not that easy. In this article, you can see what happened in the TPACK attempt of Alexandria Country Day School, Virginia, USA, which was a pilot study on iPad integration to the curricullum.

Both K12 and higher education classes can be adapted to flipped classrooms. In this infographic, flipped classrooms applied for two education levels are compared with regard to some criteria. While there are more research studies on flipped learning for higher education than ones for K12, it is interesting to see that while 78% of school teachers flipped one lesson in 2014, only 29% of college instructors tried flipping a class.