" The mathematics teacher with TPACK (Technology Pedagogy Content Knowledge) is a chess player. "

In this study, they compared CSCL based instructions and pen and paper methodologies in Mathematics education to enhance Student learning.

Singing in the video explains everything I guess :)

It is always said among Mathematicians that 'we are born to count' but what if we lost left parietal lobe? On the other hand, why are some people more gifted than others?

The article shows the connection between cognitive neuroscience and mathematics education with experiments.

While I was reading DBR, ''Forum theatre'' always came to my mind whether they resemble or not.After a quick search, i found that study.It is DBR.''It is understood as developing, testing,investigating, and refining learning environment designs and theoretical constructs, such as the pedagogical models that support learning and illustrate and predict how learning occurs.'' The data were collected through questionnaires.They used TML model(Teaching meaningful learning,you can see the table of it)According to the students, the video-supported forum-theater promoted most clearly the collaborative, co-operational,and conversational characteristics of meaningful learning.More,results suggest many refinements for Drama courses.

The reserach focuses on the relationship between individual needs(with disability) and product functions. To fill the gap and develop physical concepts, it presents some product designs. The research builds on general functions based on product design methods, formal human activity classification and ICF(It provides a systematic organizing scheme and coding rules for human functional ability and limitation) and data mining.Then they explore the applicability of a data mining technique, specifically association rule mining, as embodied in the Apriori algorithm to create knowledge in the form of quantitatively characterized heuristics for universal design.

Art is like a filter in our brain to mean the world we are in. By visiting art museums, watching more movies and put more emphasize on literature, i believe that we really can 'Design the world' with respect to critical thinking skills and social tolerance:)

This is the activity which is mentioned in the reading// A cognitive theory of Challenge.

-Why are you doing this? -I just felt like running!

So let's hope that we will have this tireness just in the end of this 'long run' of EDS542 ;)

Kiewslovski movie! I especially like the scene when father and son calculate whether the son could skate safely or not. He has a great deal of curiosity and father leads his motivation via scientific methods;)

I guess everyone of us played that game with a very clear goal: to save the princess! There was a hidden power which kept us hours and hours playing that game, now we now what it is: Flow! :)

This article presents how much CTS improves the abstract reasoning component of word problem solving in Math. Abstract subtests were not as easy as concrete components. It leads me think again of deep learning with CTS. It is really controversial topic.

Defne shared a video about teacher education in Finland and I have a document about that also which is sort of a collection and summarize of data from different resources and from my observations when I was there. But I can not share the doc file here so feel free to ask me if you are interested in;)

About homeworks, quantity and quality of them as well as measurement of academic skills.

How can it be possible to have more than %50 percent of possiblity to have the same birthday among 23 people?

According to the latest scores of PISA, it seems like we all start to search how China and South Corea is doing in their education systems. As for the question why Finland is a top-performer, there are several aspects to explain it. I think, initially, teacher education comes first and equality and equity in education follow this. Therefore they show up as top thanks to PISA. Their school tradition, history of both economics and education, population and mentality of learning could be obstacles to make it as a prototype and compare with some countries.

Now I understand your point, Christian. Thanks for sharing that pdf, I think that is related with the article since it discusses the whole structure of PISA which is showed as a scale. And for sure,that might happen that another country would be top according to another kind of testing but still there is a hard fact about Finland and their school culture. I have seen that infographic before but I feel the need to correct some issues there according to my stay in Finland. For instance, it says that there are no seperate classrooms for accelerated learning or special education but there are many of them. As for homeworks, this saying of having rarely homework is not actually reflecting the reality. They do have homeworks but the definiton of it might cause misunderstandings;)