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The article from International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education focuses on the hypothesis that an intelligent tutoring system that provides guidance with respect to students'meta-cognitive abilities can help them to become better learners.

I think the research design they follow is detailed, there is development of a model and then validation of it over time. I have checked one of the authors' recent publications and realized that he has researches on self-regulation during learning ,example-tracing tutors, interesting concepts to examine.

The site gives an overview of Cognitive Tutoring experiences of K-12 Education teachers and students in Carneige Learning Centre. They talk about the benefits and so.

I really like the the part of implications for teachers. It make flow theory more clearer for me.

Australia is one of the countries which makes serious money from education. A boom in foreign students, has created Brisbane's biggest export market. The visiting internationals are soaking up sunny weather and having a positive impact on the local economy.

In the website, you can find LBD projects, tools for assesment,software, people working on LBD.

Very informative LBD-specific website. It is nice to see more examples. Thanks for sharing.

I had chance to visit this website as well searching for some examples from science education. It is great that a list of people from the field of LBD are announced here.

A sum of the theories of learning topic..

The professor made a distinction between learning and deeper learning and he says deeper learning differs as it does not suggest superficial comprehension. Actually, deeper learning is not something specific to science learning; it is learning with understanding (as far as I understood). Deeper learning is what we mean by learning, is not it?

Deeper learning is what we are supposed to teach our students. Not superficial but deep and comprehensive knowledge. I don't think that the professor limits it to science learning since he doesn't focus on one subject area "science". What he says is that no matter what students learn, they should be guided and provided help in order to let them get comprehensive and permanent knowledge. Superficial knowledge which is gathered through memorization is more likely to be forgotton soon.

New Centre to research science of learning University of Melbourne education researchers will help shape the new Science of Learning Research Centre which will use scientific methods including neuroscience and psychology to improve our understanding of learning.

A new type of neurons that is believed to be the neural basis of empathy which is interpreted as a bridge between people in connecting their ideas, feelings, thoughts in shaping the world we live in.

Thank you Defne :-) I don't know why but I always like reading the issues we discuss in well-known magazines and this is one of them :-)) Up to know, we've mostly tended to make a link between feelings and psychology, but now we see that our feelings and actions are closely connected with neurons, smtg physical. I wish we could understand all its implications on education. Perhaps in the future...

I think that mirror neurons are really interesting to have such a function.

this is a basic literature review article on design based research studies.

This is very good. We will cover some aspects from this article in class.

This is the webpage from the design based research conference 2012. You can find there some good ideas. You also can download the presentations and work-shop descriptions

I didn't know about this event. Hope they organize the next one. We can check some of the cases in class. I am particularly interested in how DBR is used in teacher education research context.

In this short paper, Caine&Caine present principles of brain that will help teachers reconceptualize their teaching.

Yelda I really like this article and also it says that eachc brain is unique so iI think this is similar with educators thoughts, every child is unique..:)

"Will the day come when educators have ready access to brain-imaging machines to assist them in diagnosing reading or attention problems?" This question is important to answer, as many groups of students experience attention disorders.

In relation to what Halil shared, the website contains news and commentaries on topics that are of concern to both neuroscience and education.

A couple of yeras ago, Turkish Ministry of Education declared that some teachers wold be appointed as "experts". At the very beginning, some teachers got the title of "experts"; however, the ministry gave up the idea after a very short time. This can be a topic to be discussed at our class this week. Some of the questions that can be raised: * What is an expert teacher? * Do we need experts at our school? * How should the teachers get the title of "expert", by an exam or by working time? I added a Turkish forum where people discussed the expert teachers at schools.

It can be a good discussion topic, well suited for the week.

He directs the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His group develops new technologies to engage people (particularly children) in creative learning experiences. He received the McGraw Prize in Education for 2011.

This is the website for The International Baccalaureate (IB) program that I mentioned in the class. It is a recognized leader in the field of international education, encouraging students to be active learners, well-rounded individuals and engaged world citizens. The organization offers to schools three programmes: the Diploma Programme, the Middle Years Programme and the Primary Years Programme. It is applied in some of the private colleges such as Eyuboğlu Schools that I have worked in, İstek Schools and Enka Schools from Istanbul.

"Every child is a scientist!!!" Do you agree?

I wish he were not a scientist but eventually he is especially in the kitchen he can create different tastes he prepares coctails for himself and drinks it and tries new forms of chemical experiements and reaches different tastes it goes on like this :)

I totally agree with the idea. If you had a chance of observing little kids around you, you may have seen that they have lots of questions that even we as grown ups do not know the answer. also, the simple answers that you provide for them are never enough for them. Our professor Mr. Ok shared his experience with one of his colleague's daughter. a five year old girl learned from her parents that she came to the world as her father and mother loved each other so much. When she saw that our professor do not have a child she concluded that he doesn't love his wife so much :) and then her parents had to provide a new answer for her curiosity about how she came to world.