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dozoran

The Crisis in Higher Education - 0 views

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    "We are reinventing education," declares Agarwal. "This will change the world."
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    Dinçer, thanks for sharing. I support the idea that traditional schools should be supported by technology. However, in my opinion, technology should not be used as a total substitute of traditional campus-based education. By stating that, I do not support idea that technology can not offer the effectiveness of content transfer to students. Rather, it offers a wide range of opportunities to enhance learning. However, in my opinion, we should not separate people from each other anywhere in the world. The long term effects of technology and mass city life is not clear yet. At least, we know about depressions and diseases because of long term stress crises. Thus, today's schools should also reteach people to be together. To put it differently, we should use technology for "better learning together".
Evrim Baran

Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 5 views

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    Here is another critique on MI. Interesting insights are presented here. 
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    The author contrasts the MI intelligence with single intelligence and says that single intelligence is not educable, rather it is an innate capacity. As an educator, this criticism for MI is useful for me only because I remember to be critical to the theory and begin to search for weakness of it. Otherwise the authors view of single intelligence (non-educable and innate) shows me, as an educator, no direction about my teaching. So I find the Gardner's view (though it may not be a theory) more compelling than the authors view even if I agree that there are problems with Gardner's word choices. Rather than "multiple intelligence theory" he could use "practices of multiple abilities".
Burcu Korkusuz

Pre-School Education - 0 views

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    It is another controversial issue that the graduates who have associate degree regarding pre-school education can complete their full bachelor's degree with such system "2+2".
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    Actually, other countries such as Austria, South Korea and Germany has an issue that most of preschool teacher comes from 2 year vocational school. There are a lot of graduates of pre-school education from the faculties of education, though. To be optimistic, most of the pre-school teachers' education level will be higher not qualitatively maybe but quantitatively.
Burcu Korkusuz

Neo Humanistic Education - 0 views

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    Some useful explanations and examples for humanistic environment in a school regarding curriculum, methods and facilities
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    Burcu, thank you for sharing. I must confess that I did not understand the difference between humanism and neo humanism:). They seemed almost the same to me. In the movie, children are running in the environment, observing the world, helping people, establishing love and trust with peers and etc. And their ages are small. I support the idea that small children should be made aware of their uniqueness. However, when they grow up, we will have to show them science, math, history and etc. The bulk of knowledge in the world and in our education might unable school to continue humanism in education. Actually, it means that especially for higher graders, we should use humanism as an element in classrooms, not a whole teaching strategy since as wee from the video, creating humanistic classroom is not feasible at all and may not be affordable for higher number of students. In the video they said that firstly they "choose" students. It means that, it is a private school. For private school, one can create almost % 100 percent humanistic environment. However, in public schools, teachers have to integrate humanistic elements into predetermined educational environments.
dozoran

Over 6.7 Million Students are Now Taking Classes Online - 0 views

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    "if students can receive similar or better outcomes by taking courses online for free, why step foot into a classroom at all?"
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    Since the beginning of the trend, one of the most controversial issues is the question of whether free online courses by the Ivy league universities will cause the decline of "other" universities and how will this affect students' choice and higher education in the next years.
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    This for sure giving us some indications about where higher education is going and how should universities respond to this change. Perhaps, new accreditation systems, different degree forms. As a country with a very big number of young population, we better act on it fast, instead of being the observers of these trends around us.
Sercan Çelik

The "Pygmalion Effect": Using Expectations To Generate Success « Annie Murphy... - 0 views

  • Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has created
  • that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy
  • The only difference between them and their peers, Rosenthal writes, “was in the mind of the teacher.”
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  • to act differently
  • higher expectations lead teachers
  • yet the expectations held in the mind of the teacher—or the parent, or the manager, or the coach—can make an enormous difference.
  • They create a warmer “socioemotional climate” for the learners they regard as high-potential, often conveying this warmth through non-verbal signals: a nod, an encouraging smile, a touch on the shoulder.
  • They teach more material, and more difficult material, to learners they see as especially promising.
  • They give up-and-coming learners more opportunities to contribute, including additional time to respond to questions.
  • They offer their “special” learners feedback on performance that is more detailed and more personalized—not just a generic “Good job.”
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    Ok, I have been trying to explain how I approach teaching in higher education. This explains it clearly. Indeed, I do have very high expectations from my students and I believe high expectations bring greater achievement.
Sercan Çelik

THE World University Rankings - 1 views

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    I also saw the rankings. However, I am not sure if the results are reliable. I did not feel anything about our progress :),
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    Erdem, this is the list about reputation. They are asking academicians about reputed universities around the world. METU has been actively involved in the international projects and quite a big number of professors were mobilized from the US, Europe, and Canada in the last couple years. However, Turkey has the lowest budget in the list. That creates problems with getting the funds that are needed to create quality research, and thus increase the number of high impact research and publications.
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    Hocam, today I have read about the details from news and also had conversation with my friends at work, the results actually seems to be reliable and proud. And yes, METU has the lowest budget!. Some details about the list: ''Dünyanın en güçlü 100 üniversite markasını'' belirlemek amacıyla yapılan ankette, katılımcılardan hem eğitim hem araştırma alanında ''mükemmel'' olarak tanımladıkları en fazla 15 üniversiteyi seçmeleri istendi. Katılımcılara, ''En başarılı mezununuzun lisansüstü eğitim için hangi üniversiteye gitmesini önerirsiniz?'' gibi sorular yöneltildi. source:http://www.cnnturk.com/2013/turkiye/03/05/odtu.dunyanin.ilk.60.universitesi.arasinda/698873.0/index.html
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    Reputation'i mukemmel ya da unlu olarak degil de saygin olarak cevirmek daha dogru gibi.
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    Bence de, kullanılan fiil de her maddede "best" fiili,
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    Thomson Reuters Scale was being used to determine the results.
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    On another list run by METU itself, URAP, METU comes 489th in 2012 listing, not URAP but for THE having so much impact on worldwide scale I'm not sure how free it is from political influence.
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