Technology in Teacher Education

Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics as some of us may be familiar with it.The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. I find it very useful to trace the research of my colleagues and get their opinions about my research. If you haven't tried it before, I strongly recommend it.

Education and technology are interconnected. This synergy is able to transform the world we live in. The contradictory phenomenon is that while being an early adopter of technology, education is also one of the last sectors to be fully transformed by it, due to institutional inertia and a number of other reasons.

When Facebook bought virtual reality company Oculus in early 2014, virtual reality blew up. While game and movie studios began reimagining the future, others looked back at the "old days" of VR - a loosely remembered period in the 1990s when gloves and goggles were super cool and everyone was going to get high on 3D graphics.

To see the timeline of the virtual reality with its pros and cons was beneficial for us.

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.

Here are a few frameworks for mobile learning.

The frameworks mentioned in the resource helped me gain a theoretical insight about m-learning. Thanks Seda!

"Delivering Performance Feedback to Teachers" is an interactive and conversation-based training simulation that lets principals practice giving feedback to virtual teacher (avatars). I think the game is beyond helpful due to the fact as school leaders, it's hard to give a neutral feedback to the teachers from time to time, which may deter the leaders from giving it at all.

Academic avatars are getting more and more popular as the academic faculty becomes younger, more Internet savvy and avatar-ish. I'll also get my avatar asap!