Sajan George TedX Talk about the future of education. Sajan is the Founder & CEO of Matchbook Learning, a national non-profit school turnaround management organization that has designed and implemented a unique blended model of school, the only one of its kind targeting turnaround (i.e. bottom 5%) public schools that blends face-to-face and virtual instruction.
NMC Horizon 2016 report is up! According to the report, you can see the different types of tools or platforms to be adopted with their respective timespans. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is already here, although cited as "to be adopted in one year or less". The future seems to lead towards augmented reality and robotics.
I really liked that page which explains Technological elements usage in Physical Education and in the curriculum. He also give two examples of his lessons where he use technology in his class to show the TPACK in physical education.
In this interview Dr. Punya Mishra is talking about TPACK. In the interview, Dr. Mishra discusses the TPACK Model that he and Dr. Matthew Koelher developed. He begins the interview with an overview of the model. Dr. Mishra discusses how the model can shape educational technology integration in teacher education, K-12, and in professional development. He talks about where he sees the future development of TPACK going. The interview ends with advice he has regarding the implementation of the TPACK model in teaching and learning.
To read more about the work of Dr. Mishra, visit his Web site at http://punyamishra.com/
It is really impressive TPACK model example that can help students learning geography. By teacher's high CK, students learn similarity and differences between continents and countries. By teacher's high PK, students are seperated groups and they are leaded in order to develop good questions. Also, by teacher's high TK, students are connected to real students in different countries in real time via using techology, so all of the students work collaboratively.
I really liked it. It is fun for students but there is more than that I believe. Because in the process they are comparing other students' clues with what they know, reviewing high amount of their information. For example students at the other side of the skype call knew their friends were not in finland, estonia, latvia, belarus, ukraine, etc (neighbors of russia). But still I think they -maybe implicitly- learnt these countries are russia's neighbors. Still, I would love to examine their geography scores to be sure about this method's efficiency.
Hocam who are you :)
This article came 3 years after the original TPACK article by Mishra and Koehler and is about creation process of a self-assessment survey for pre-service teachers on their TPACK knowledge.
www.tpack.org is considered the top community for TPACK. They send out newsletters bimonthly or trimonthly, which includes the recent papers, presentations in conferences, blog entries, dissertations and theses written or published related to TPACK. It is an incredibly vast resource, and subscribing is really easy and free of charge. All you have to do is send a blank e-mail to "sympa@lists.wm.edu" with the subject line "subscribe TPACK.news NAME SURNAME". Example:
subscribe TPACK.news Ceren Korkmaz
From the link above, you can download their latest issue (#31, December 2016):
P.S: FYI, the link will expire in a couple of days :) Sorry that I can't upload files here.
The combination of technology, pedagogy and content knowledge is represented well in this video. It seems very informative and has simple explanation. Also, there are good examples for TPACK model which also aims students work collaboratively.
I stumbled upon the report John Dewey wrote after examining Turkish education system and some schools at 1924. I'm putting this here just not to lose it.
I hope this is not too basic but I was impressed and surprised to see this area has its own journal. Journal has founded in 2006 and has 43 issues so far, holding more than 200 articles. Journal is peer reviewed and has a high impact factor of 2.692 putting it the 2nd place among educational research journals. I think this success also shows the potentials of the area.
Coursera is one of the best platforms for computer supported collaborative learning. There are numerous classes from the top universities in the world, and the expansion of these classes are run through discussions in class forums. Lots of people get together to create projects and share them with their peers.
First time I watched about these kind of programs and efectiveness in education i had some questionmarks in my mind. Because according to the documentary, it was not as effective as going to school and it was not so much fun to take an online course. That is why drop-outs of school was pretty high at that time. But this looks more effective and more suitable for learning for sure! thanks for sharing!
Although online courses has some disadvantages, that platform is beyond online courses I think because it allow followers interaction instead of just slides or videos.
Also I do not remember the exact details but when that platform was founded, the demand for one course was over the expected and the system was broken. Then, the same lesson began to be given as formal education and at all users who completed the course with 100 points are the ones who take the course online.
Coursera was suggested me to improve my academic speaking skills by my adviser so I have a coursera account :) There are presentations, online courses, online exams and homework etc. Also, you can get a certificate that is valid international after completing the course successfully. Unfortunately, I did not benefit from it because the price of the course was too high, therefore I gave up the course.