Learning Sciences

Hi everyone. Today I'm introducing Ann D. Thompson. She is a professor in Iowa Satte University. She is the pioneer in educational technology area. She has conducted a lot of projects. Here is the Ann thomson's publications and citation rates from google. And here is her CV. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~eat/Ann-short%20vita%201.htm

We spook about Mishra in class and Evrim Hoca gave some information about him. .
Punya Mishra is a professor of educational technology and director of the Master of Arts in Educational Technology program. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his work on the theoretical, cognitive and social aspects related to the design and use of computer-based learning environments. He has worked extensively in the area of technology integration in teacher education which led to the development (in collaboration with M. J. Koehler) of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, which has been described as "the most significant advancement in the area of technology integration in the past 25 years." He has received over $4 million in grants, published over 45 articles and book chapters and edited two books. Dr. Mishra is an award-winning instructor who teaches courses at both the masters and doctoral levels in the areas of educational technology, design and creativity. He is a gifted, creative and engaging public speaker, having made multiple keynote and invited presentations for associations and conferences nationally and internationally.
My dream is to work with him and Ann Thompson and also taking TPACK badge.:)

Yahya hoca is known with his works on education history in Turkey. He is the pioneer in History of Turkish education, especially teacher education in Turkey. His books on the link which are been sold. Here is his turkish CV: http://www.ekremyaman.com/2010/10/11/prof-dr-yahya-akyuz/

The second professor in the field is Richard Mayer. Here is the link for his published books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Richard-E.-Mayer/e/B001IOBJ48

Dr Tallal was one of the scientists I discovered last week while searching for learning sciences. She is the director of a website where you can find her free webinars. I'm also adding the sites of her projects. http://www.scilearn.com/events/webinars/ http://www.readingassistant.com/ http://www.scilearn.com/products/

We will read more about expertise. Some readings will be from Ericsson.

:) Does this mean that we will be experts about learning after about 417 days? (10000/24)

That could be a little bit irrelavant but as I am also a big fan of the importance of pratice while reading the article lines from the film, Pride and Prejudice came to my mind and it made me laugh. It could sound a bit meaningless if you haven't watched the film, but I will try to explain. Lady Catherine, the aunt of Mr.Darcy (main guy) tries to insult Elizabeth (main girl) by saying that "no excellence in music is to be acquired, without constant practice" when she could not play the piano well. Elizabeth took her revenge from Mr.Darcy when he said to her "he did not have the talent of conversing easily with people he had never met before" and Elizabeth replies that "Perhaps you should take your aunt's advice and practice?" :) As the article implies no one should never underestimate the power of practice. Even you can realize that you are doing better at something at your second or third time. Imagine that you are doing the same thing ten thousand time?

So, praise is good but we should be careful about what to praise. Yet again, it seems quite hard to praise efforts instead of intelligence considering our education system which is oriented to our success not to our efforts :(

I am compiling a Twitter list list for the class. Let's start with this. Please also recommend others that we can include in the list, on learning, cognition, technology etc.

I was in Australia last year; it is a totally different culture and the issues they discuss about education and teaching are grately different from us. To stop bullying and discrimination, they plan to create a better school environment such as better changing rooms, toilet facilities, and mixed sporting teams. I will continue to share about educational news in Australia which may help us learn and keep an eye on a different culture.

İbrahim, I also think that having insights on how different countries approaches educational issues will be an important contribution to the course. Please do keep share these examples.

The video is very funny and it shows the importance of interest, motivation, self-esteem as well as prior knowledge in learning to me, what do you think?

Thank you for sharing this. Sheldon typically may have aimed to transfer what is written in the books or most probably imitated his teachers as this was the way he was instructed. I say so as the physics teacher at the high school I studied was instructing in the same way and this is why I could not learn physics and developed a kind of prejudice towards that subject matter. As I could not comprehend the abstract terms he was talking about I quitted:(

I think we usually experience such a thing. Teachers want to teach whatever they want without stopping, but they sometimes forget that not every students is very interested in the stuff :( an important thing to keep in mind.

After I read this I become more worried about our students especially in secondary schools. There were SBS (exam for entering high schools) and they were taking 3 different exams at each grade, 6,7,8 but now with the new regulations they will have 36 exams. Apart from that in 10 years the system has changed for 5 times. what can be more devastating their chilhood than that?

I agree with you about the testing system in Turkey but it is only the top of the iceberg. For me, childhood ends for children who start the formal education in Turkey. Our system is so demanding and competitive that children cannot endure the difficulties they encounter. First of all, we have very overloaded curricula and students always need to be alert and hardworking to keep up with the required activities. While trying to make use of constructivist understanding curriculum developers missed some points: the opportunities and facilities the schools and students have, the difficulty level of activities, background of the learner and student and parent profile in Turkey, teacher characteristics in our schools and so on. The curricula cannot be implemeted in most of the schools so teachers invented their own methods and techniques which do not match to any of the instructional theories properly. Parents started to find out ways to protect their children and they made lots of mistakes. For example, some parents do projects of their children and smarter children started to sell ready-made projects at schools. Although teachers know the truth, he grade these projects because the system makes it nearly impossible to fail. In short, our system is working but not in the way writen in the curricula. The changes, negativities and difficulties in the system is damaging the childhood and future of the students. Somebody should change it, not the curricula:)

World is getting more populated, and each individual wants to have a better life. And a better life is significantly related to education. So, exams still appear to be a "must" in this racing system. Actually, I am a supporter of the exams if we want to have a more "fair race". I remember the terrible old days when successful people couldn't get what they deserved because of the bribery system in Turkey. On the other hand, I agree about the side effects of the overtesting. And as an individual who has been exposed to overtesting, the question I ask to myself is "How has the overtesting affected my mental health?" The truth is I have been stressed, depressed and sad because of the tests :(

While playing computer games, children learn English, thinking and deciding quickly and even how to rule a kingdom. Is there anything new for us, as prospective teachers, to develop our teaching? It seems that some people think so.

Turkey has been undergoing education reforms because of the same reason" ..the current system was designed and conceived for a different age..." Do you think the reformed curricula meet the requirements of 21st century? I think wee need to reform the minds of people who are designing the curricula in this country...

It is like imitating other countries and take their education systems for granted rathr than reforming. Whatever it is, the education systems not only in East but also in some parts of west are based on social efficiency theory and students are conceived as to-be-workers. Self-actualization and intellectual development are not even in the secondary place.

as it is mentioned in the video, our educattion system also kill the creativity of the students and cause them to behave like robots.I think we loose huge amont of potential to produce artistic, scientific and tecnological productions.

I hope that you'll like the video because I really liked it. It can set a good example for the modifications of the instructional techniques and learning environment since it approaches performance from a different perspective.

First of all, I really enjoyed the way the video is presented, it was fun to watch. It provides inspiring ideas on autonomy, letting people have genuine, meaningful purposes and finally letting them feel valuable and creative. Thanks for sharing this.

This is a video about how we learn through synapses and the actions in our nerves based on an experiment conducted on mice. It also shows the memorization process and how we forget something.

This is the first chapter of the book "The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences" by R. Keith Sawyer. It integrates the foundations of the learning sciences, educational technology, learning processes and the emergence of the field of learning sciences along with the rationale behind this field. I think as an introduction, this chapter will be beneficial to look at before going towards the endpoints.

Sorry, I found this accidentally. Then now, I saw that this book is in our syllabus already. :)))