Technology in Teacher Education

Myspace, Facebook and more...funny

Briefly Social Networking

Travelling through time in social media

"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!

Here comes an infograph about social media on campus, with pros, cons and overall impact

Bunch of inspiring ideas to use Twitter for educational contexts. I've been benefiting from a couple of them in my classes, and I safely assert that Twitter increases interaction of the students, if properly used.

The content of this video is an example of a flipped classroom. It is written that "Peer into Aaron Sams' classroom as he explains why he flipped his classroom. Aaron Sams, along with Jonathan Bergmann were the first to flip their classes. The currently teach in Woodland Park Colorado and are writing a book about the Flipped Class."

Some benefits of flipped classroom

There is TPACK standards for each of the course. As a mathematics teacher I found this and I want to share this with you. From the link, one can also downlad the pdf version. Niess, M. L., Ronau, R. N., Shafer, K. G., Driskell, S. O., Harper S. R., Johnston, C., Browning, C., Özgün-Koca, S. A., & Kersaint, G. (2009). Mathematics teacher TPACK standards and development model. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial], 9(1).

Here is a Mendeley group for TPACK for those who are interested!

This is a virtual place where you can find various activities for different courses meant for TPACK.

This is an attractive presentation on TPACK framework

which technology is the most important for students and how does ıt help them

Recently IGI Global caught up with editor and contributing author Margaret Niess, who recently attended the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2013 Annual Meeting April 27th-May 1st in San Francisco, California. U.S.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. The TPACK framework extends Shulman's idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.

Here is a very short but informative video to explain the logic of flipped classroom

I also liked it. This video briefly explaining an example of flipped classroom clearly. So, I think it can be useful of understanding its meaning. At the end of the video there are comments of teachers. One says that: This is nice and all, but all it takes for this to completely fail (I've tried it) is several students who simply don't want to work say "I don't have a computer" or "I work until three in the morning." Some legitimately don't (not sure how you get around that) and some are simply lazy (don't think so? I did a lecture where students were given a sheet of paper which had sentences with missing words that I would GIVE them, and one student would not even do that). Other says that: They have smart phones, don't they? If they had time for homework outside of class, why wouldn't they have time for videos instead?... So they are really discussing the flipped classroom in practice..

This video shows the differences between a flipped and a traditional classroom in a funny way. It emphasizes benefits of flipped classroom and presents reactions of different type of students to the flipped classroom features. It is a video not only funny but also instructive.

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

The 6 Steps to Flipping A Classroom Infographic synthesizes the overwhelming to-do list of flipping your classroom into 6 easy steps that make the whole process a little less daunting. Plan Figure out which lesson you're going to flip. Outline key learning outcomes and put together a lesson plan.