Technology in Teacher Education

When I was undergrad, I have tried Second Life for one of my courses. This reminded me of those old days. Thanks Sibel!

Yapılandırmacı yaklaşımı temel alan model, bireyin internet üzerinden eriştiği, daha önceden öğretmen tarafından hazırlanmış ve öğrencinin araştırma yapacağı kaynakların belirtilmiş olduğu sayfalar içeren, günlük hayat ile ilgili bir problemin çözümünü gerektiren ve öğrencilerin işbirliği içinde çalışmalarına imkân tanıyan etkinlikler içerir.

eBooks, Blogging, Cloud Sync, Screenshots

Here are some suggested teacher apps for inquiry based learning

You can find the pdf version of mobile teaching and learning e-book from this url. It can be beneficial for us.

I saw this new three days ago...Let's accept it in addition to my presentation. They use Minecraft for educational aim. MinecraftEdu

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

In 2011, Katy Independent School District, in partnership with Cisco, launched the final phase of a technology transformation. The teachers explain how they transformed their vision of instruction by integrating mobile learning strategies.

Lets take a look at how OERs are percieved by students with a rap song :)

I enjoyed it :)

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!

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.

To me, the most interesting thing in this infographic is that distance learning is not recent at all, and it actually dates as back as 1700s through correspondence. As you walk through the history of online learning on the left column, the right column will inform you about some other fun facts that happened at the very same year.

Dear friends, I liked this infographic because it is followable to see the development of online learning, year by year

I think a striking point in this infographic seems to be that the developments in the last decade seems to be quicker and more extensive than ever. There are only 12-year distance (2002-2014) between when OpenCourseWare started and 98 % of the universities started online programs. It is also seen that online courses are regarded as highly as face-to-face courses for most people of business and academy which might put the existence of today's pyhsical schools into risk. When we consider that online courses and learning tools are not that common in Turkey, it seems we are left behind that new distant learning paradigm in the world.

An infographic on technology AND education. This infographic compares 2002 and 2012 in internet usage. Quantitative (the what) and qualitative (the how and why) perpectives.

I love how it shows the most searched items. You can clearly see what the trends were back then.

Seeing the enormous increase in the number of people using Facebook (from 3 to 900 million users), time spent on the Internet (46 minutes to 4 hours) made me think back about Punya Mishra's (at SITE Keynote) comment on making learning process a part of student's daily life. e.g. a class discussion or course content carried out on Facebook which can increase student participation. Inserting education to top trend websites or applications might be a useful idea to reflect upon.

In the infographic, it is stated that " 98% of college students own a digital device" and "3 of 4 students say they wouldn't be able to study without technology". Based on these findings, I can suggest that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) can be a promising trend since students can study in classroom environment with their own technologies.

I agree with this infographic. Technology is the most important way to capture the attention of today's students.

I agree with you, Ceren. Increased student achievement as a consequence of use of Twitter in classes is interesting. I would like to give an example how it can occur. Students can use Twitter to write their short reflections about a topic they learnt in class. It may increase students' engagement in lessons outside of the class and as a result it may foster learning.