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The Power of Positivity | Brain Games - YouTube - 0 views

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shared by Murat Kol on 22 Nov 15 - No Cached
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  • Murat Kol on 22 Nov 15
     
    What happens when somebody is encouraged by positive reinforcement and discouraged by negative one?
  • Özlem Tantu on 23 Nov 15
     
    So behaviorism theory still works?
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Communication with Parents to Enhance Learning - 2 views

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shared by Ezgi Hazal KÖK on 02 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ezgi Hazal KÖK on 02 Oct 13
     
    The article has talked about the importance of communication with parents for learning as well as what problems we as educators may confront with by asking parents to help their children in order to enhance learning.
  • Burcu Korkusuz on 03 Oct 13
     
    Thanks for sharing this:) Actually, it is not only important but also vital to include parental communication into education procedure. I think school, parents and the student himself/herself compose the core family in education process rather than the biological family of the student. In the literature about this issue, it has been put forward that there is a positive relation between parental communication and student learning or achievement both academically and psychologically.
  • Pınar Mercan Küçükakın on 04 Oct 13
     
    One of the most difficult tasks that educators are to achieve is ensuring positive parental involvement in education. As parents are very sensitive about their children's education, nowadays most of the teachers have difficulty to create fruitful communication with parents. Parents question and crticize everything at school as they do not have confidence in educators because of improper practices they experienced or witnessed. Having training sessions, meetings and home visits can be useful in this framework. In this way, parents will be informed about the activities at school and can be involved in decision making process which will change their perceptions in a positive way.
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Cooperative and Collaborative Learning in the Classroom - Video & Lesson Transcript | S... - 2 views

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  • Erdem Uygun on 12 Dec 15
     
    A nice illustrative video on cooperative learning. It says there are five elements of true cooperative learning: 1. Face to face interaction 2. Positive interdependence 3. Individual accountability 4. Collaborative skills 5. Group processing. Face-to-face interaction does not necessary occur in physical environment. Phones or video-conferencing tools can be used in that process which leads to CSCL.
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Novice or expert: How do consumers increase their knowledge about products? -- ScienceD... - 2 views

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  • Murat Kol on 25 Oct 15
     
    The study reveals how consumers increase their knowledge when they were posed to extend their existing knowledge and experience. When the learners were assumed to be consumers of knowledge, can this study be a good pathway to understand how people learn?
  • Mine Önal on 25 Oct 15
     
    What I understood from this article is that to move from novice position to expert position, one should increase the range of their experiences. That's why novice consumers experience on a particular product. Am I right in my conclusion to this article?
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All Learning Is Emotional - 2 views

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  • elanuryilmaz on 19 Oct 15
     
    "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." ― Benjamin Franklin In the area of adult learning, Ben Franklin turns out to be quite prescient.
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  • satiburhanli on 19 Oct 15
     
    I also believe that the power of emotions in the learning. I think that if we can situmulate the emotions in lesson, we can make lessons more intesting, enjoable and the knowledge gathered through this lesson will be long lasting. Threfore, as it is stated in the article, teachers should create situations that situmalte students' emotions.
  • Erdem Uygun on 19 Oct 15
     
    That's true. Education is a social-emotional act. As I said in my personal learning theory, teaching humans is not like inserting lines of codes to series of robots to make them behave in a specific way. We all have emotions and our emotions to a specific event may not be same all the time as our point of views to an event are affected by our personal experiences, culture, philosophy, etc. In that sense, for a teacher, it is important to monitor students' feelings to a specific topic and to arrange learning environments in which students have positive feelings about a topic.
  • Evrim Baran on 19 Oct 15
     
    "Introduce failure into your learning design." something we appreciate less in our educational system.
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Learning Sciences Institute - YouTube - 8 views

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  • sermin vardal ocakli on 07 Oct 13
     
    I've watched the video twice and in the end I've felt some concerns about the results of the studies. In the "how people learn" part, researchers were testing the storage and connection system of the brain through some high-tech tools. However, does neuropsychology provide enough evidence on the functioning of the brains? Can we generalize the results to all people from all cultures? I am not the one who is against neuropsychology, but for me one discipline may not give an appropriate answer to such a deep question. My second concern is about the integration of computer programs into the curriculum as a major learning tool. We see a program where "Betty" is speaking and giving feedback on the video. The program seems user friendly, but what about the negative aspects and limitations of the integration of technology into learning? Ok, I agree that we have to adapt to the rapid technological changes in the society. However, is technology the key to all learning processes? Plus, the program is designed on the mapping of the concepts. Does concept mapping make a curriculum compelling all the time? I am not sure about all characteristics of the program, but if it hasn't been designed in a challenging style and if all students come up with the same products, then how will they develop their knowledge and reasoning abilities? I couldn't find an answer to that. As for the part "effective teaching", I am in the same opinion with the researchers that there should be a connection between the real world and the subject taught. Moreover, I think the integration of the disciplines is difficult but a very good way of giving meaning to life. Besides, in the video we see teachers as a guide, as a facilitator and there is no doubt that providing individual support to the students helps students feel more involved.
  • Pınar Mercan Küçükakın on 08 Oct 13
     
    Firstly, even if it is designed by utilizing modern technology and different understanding, which makes it a more developed and complicated one, the program used in the video reminded me the teaching machines of old times. It gives the priority to the cognitive aspect of learning. This seems to be a one-dimensional approach which underestimates the social aspect of learning. I think the value of classroom interaction for effective learning cannot be replaced by any kind of computer programs. Research on brain is really important and it provides very useful insights for learning and instructional activities. However, it should be supported by the findings of research by social psychologists as well. The very same individual may perform at varying levels when he is taught with the same methods in different environments. I personally experienced many times that even the absence of one individual in my classes affected the teaching an learning processes in a negative or positive way depending upon the classroom dinamics.
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economy and foreign students in Australia - 0 views

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  • ibrahim tanrikulu on 22 Nov 13
     
    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.
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how to motivate teachers? - 0 views

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  • sermin vardal ocakli on 20 Nov 13
     
    We are always trying to find ways to motivate sts, but don't you think that it is high time for sts to start motivating their teachers?
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  • Burcu Korkusuz on 20 Nov 13
     
    I think teacher motivation is so crucial Şermin, thanks for sharing this. We mostly experience this and I believe that teachers and students feed each other in terms of motivation. When the teachers are demotivated, it is hard to motivate students or vice versa.
  • canannn on 20 Nov 13
     
    I think you touched such an important but sometimes ignored issue, teachers as learners should also be motivated for sure. thanks for making a recall on this :)
  • Pınar Mercan Küçükakın on 20 Nov 13
     
    Şermin, most of the time I need motivation to motivate the students for learning English:) And also, I question why we ask them to learn something they dislike. I agree with Burcu, when students are demotivated, teachers lose their motivation to teach. But, if they are intrinsically motivated, teaching becomes a joy. For example, I loved teaching to 4th graders. They had such a high level of motivation that I experienced the flow while teaching them:)
  • Defne Kara on 20 Nov 13
     
    I also believe that teacher motivation is mutual.The two parties have to affect each other.Unfortunately we as teachers have to be the stimulators in our classes no matter how we feel during the day.One of the solution to keep teachers improve their skills and better their practises can be initiating positive school climate that is keeping teachers morale high by respecting their identity both as a teacher and valuable person in the community. Social parties,cookie-days can be alternative for teachers to have space to socialize, learn from each other and the sense of belongingness would enhance.It worked for some teachers that I worked with earlier.
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Current state and future of Educational Design Research - 2 views

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  • Hatice Çilsalar on 02 Dec 13
     
    Dr. Reeves answers the questions related to last five years of design based research, and its position in educational area next years.
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Eight Tips for Fostering Flow in the Classroom - 2 views

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  • elanuryilmaz on 22 Nov 15
     
    It's every teacher's dream to have students who engage deeply with their lessons, want to learn for learning's sake, and perform at the top of their potential. In other words, teachers want their kids to find "flow," that feeling of complete immersion in an activity, where we're so engaged that our worries, sense of time, and self-consciousness seem to disappear.
  • Mine Önal on 23 Nov 15
     
    I liked this article because it adds more flow elements like making kids laugh, positive realationships, and relevancy of the task and choice
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Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-supported collaborative lea... - 1 views

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  • yasinay on 13 Dec 15
     
    Computer-mediated world-wide networks have enabled a shift from contiguous learning groups to asynchronous distributed learning groups utilizing computer-supported collaborative learning environments. Although these environments can support communication and collaboration, both research and field observations are not always positive about their working.
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Case study: Teaching transferable skills through online peer collaboration and assessment - 0 views

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  • Özlem Tantu on 13 Dec 15
     
    This video includes a case study from Biology department of Bristol University. Re-development of a compulsory second year unit "Science and Success: Writing, Speaking and Communicating Science" switched from a paper-based to an online system. All aspects including submissions, peer collaboration, feedback, and marking happen online, using Blackboard. Feedback data is downloaded from Blackboard into Excel, where it is manipulated and turned into feedback packages for students. The results yeals a great positive impact of online collaboration on students.
  • satiburhanli on 13 Dec 15
     
    Thank you Özlem. This video is a good example of integration of CSCL to a course.
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Making a mistake can be rewarding, study finds: MRI study shows failure is a rewarding ... - 1 views

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  • satiburhanli on 19 Oct 15
     
    The human brain learns two ways - either through avoidance learning, which trains the brain to avoid committing a mistake, or through reward-based learning, a reinforcing process that occurs when someone gets the right answer. Scientists have found that making a mistake can feel rewarding, though, if the brain is given the opportunity to learn from its mistakes and assess its options.
  • Erdem Uygun on 20 Oct 15
     
    "Scientists have long understood that the brain has two ways of learning. One is avoidance learning, which is a punishing, negative experience that trains the brain to avoid repeating mistakes. The other is reward-based learning, a positive, reinforcing experience in which the brain feels rewarded for reaching the right answer." The "avoidance learning" is which I have learned from my father thanks to his raising children technique. He always wanted that we, as his children, should be faultless. And that understanding (of course he is not a pedagog :)) affected me negatively in my subsequent years. In fact, the second one, reward-based learning, is essential if someone wants to apply discussion and peer learning in his/her classroom as students who avoid making mistakes will avoid having communication with others, generating assertive questions, defend his/her arguments, asking help even if s/he struck at a ridiculous point, etc. Making mistakes is a part of learning. We need to emphasize this in our classrooms.
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Computers 'do not improve' pupil results, says OECD - BBC News - 5 views

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  • Özlem Tantu on 14 Oct 15
     
    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". These results worth to be disscussed. Shall we go back to traditional classrooms or continue with technology? If so, how should we use it in the classroom?
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  • elanuryilmaz on 15 Oct 15
     
    I deeply believe the power of motivation to learn and classroom technology can be used to enhance students' motivation in learning of the specific content. Still, it is open to debate effective use of technology in classrooms, especially in our country. To deal with this inefficiency of classroom technology, we need to focus on teachers' technology literacy and try to develop this literacy.
  • Mine Önal on 17 Oct 15
     
    Hi Özlem Hoca, BBC news you shared with us is very advisable to our friends. (1) I agree that computers may have the possibility to be distractors for learning and they may be abused by some students. Students may prefer to use computers for activities other than for school activities. When I was an intern teacher, I wanted to show how a literature search is performed to my 20, 9th grade "Project" (noncredit course) students in 2006, I ended up running from one student to another because as I leave him/her with his/her search, s/he began to sign in facebook and their emails. (2) I also agree that plagiarism may occur in homeworks due to internet resources. (3) Another interesting opinion in this news is that "We're training the students to use technology which hasn't yet been invented." We are training the students to the future that is not defined, not yet clear.
  • Erdem Uygun on 17 Oct 15
     
    I think integrating technology in classrooms is inevitable as computers have been being used in lots of areas in the world and it is a little bit optimistic to assume that education will escape from this "invasion". Today's students live with technology and indeed, technology can enhance the representation of a topic, communication among learners, eliminate time and space limitations in reaching information, etc. The article says that "frequent" use of computers in schools is more likely to be associated with lower results. Instead of frequent use, one should know how one can healthily get benefit from computers, when to use it, how to use it, when not to use it, etc. Those questions are still major questions in modern educational science research. Findings from such research can enhance the positive impact of technology in classrooms.
  • vahidetekeakay on 18 Oct 15
     
    Having read this week's reading assignment, a part of which focuses on this particular result, I felt the need to comment on your share Özlem hocam. It is mentioned in Chapter 1: Introduction that "in the 1980s, cognitive scientists like Roger Schank and Seymour Papert made claims that computers would transform the schools and learning. This was a rather radical claim and it helped form a strong consensus among parents, bussiness community, politicians that getting computers into schools was a must. During 1990s, installing computers and the Internet in schools was a major trend. By 2003, 95% of all the schools in the US had their computers and were connected to the Internet. However, the impact of this huge investment was highly disappointing. Studies had shown computer use was not correlated with improved student performance. When the reserachers began to study to find the reason, they found out that the computer use in schools was not based on learning sciences; instead, they were being used as an extension of instructional classroom. By this I mean, bringing technology to the classrooms was not enough without changing the structure of instruction. Educational software has been based on instructionist theories, with the computer performing roles that are traditionally performed by the teacher. Teachers and students were not aware of how to use those computers efficiently. Students read the texts on the computers instead of reading them on books.Learning scientists continue to emphasize the powerful role that computers can play in transforming all learning. But they reject instructionalism and behaviorism. Instead, they present a new vision of computers in schools. They suggest that computer should take on a more facilitating role, helping learners have the kind of experiences that lead to deep learning."
  • Murat Kol on 19 Oct 15
     
    It is an important an overwhelming issue about how we integrate technology into education. A well-balanced implementation is required for successful instruction between the use of technology and traditional methods like paper-pencil activities (Hitt, 2011). We should not force technology and traditional instruments like paper-pencil and blackboards fight against themselves. We may play the role of negotiator between the technology and traditional methods.
  • Evrim Baran on 19 Oct 15
     
    Perhaps, we need to focus more on the pedagogy rather than the technology.
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