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NSaime Yapar

Schools Without Walls - 3 views

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    The topic is about charter schools in US. It is not easy to understand what is charter school but it is like a publicly founded school where the "educational experience is qualitatively different". They just try different style of learning. "Charters were originally a progressive movement (called the "small schools" movement) started by University of Massachusetts professor Ray Budde and American Federation of Teachers leader, Al Shanker to explore best practices for education without bureaucracy." (wikipedia: charter school) Quote from the original text "Students taught by teachers with at least five years' experience outperformed students with less experienced teachers, regardless of the type of school attended, but charter school students with inexperienced teachers did significantly worse than students in traditional public schools with less experienced teachers. (The impact of this finding is compounded by the fact that charter schools are twice as likely as traditional public schools to employ inexperienced teachers.)" This means that experienced teachers are better than in experienced ones (Not suprised?) but more importantly it shows us that if you try something new it is better to have an experienced teacher :)
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    As far as I understand, if you have a brilliant idea about the ways that the education can be implemented, you can ask for being a charter school. As a charter school, you are free from governmental regulations and obligations. However, your performance is monitored closely. In that schools, new innovative methods are tried out, and apparently inexperienced teachers are not successful at all comparing to traditional ones. This is because the experience. I remember my internship time. As an intern teacher, I had difficulty even implementing techniques that I had been taught throughout my undergraduate career. It was because concrete experiences are much more hard to accomplish that abstract ones. And self-evidently being "concretely experienced" needs time. After years and years in active teaching, teachers naturally can have the ability to integrate innovative methods in their teaching. If the innovation is surprising (like technology integration while experienced teachers might not have enough knowledge), they at least have the ability not to confuse with the new innovation, they can resist and hold on their traditional experiences. New teachers may become confused with undergraduate knowledge and innovations since both of them are still not deeply got used to.
dozoran

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education - 6 views

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    It says that children can learn with internet without any intervention from outside -like a teacher. When the topic is not defined, children can learn what they want. But for some specific topics, they at least need the very first idea -a question, sometimes even a pre-designed system of information and instruction. Are we too much interfering to students' learning process?
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    Thanks for this video. It shows an interesting method but when ı watched this video, some question come up my mind. First of them; where is creativity of instructional methods? In time students can be bored because of sitting on front of a screen for a long time and how can we motivate students effectively? Second one is; how can it be achieved the objectives which requires teachers? for example; social onjectives and values require a role model in teaching enviroment and socialization is an important issue. And also this system requires updates frequently, this is another issue. Finally, moreover someone should orginaze this computer system and design instruction process, in bire there is a teacher or orginazer on planning system in my oppinon.(Am ı more critical? :) )
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    Dincer, thanks for sharing the video. Both you and Hatice raised important questions. I've known Sugata Mitra's work quite some time now and the Hole in the Wall Project. I also investigated similar projects such as One Laptop Per Child and some other similar ones that have emerged in India. Perhaps, these models are encouraging us to question and reflect on teachers' role in the learning process. We might also ask "what it is that we want our children learn" and "how they actually learn certain things". This is also related to Hatice's question on motivation. We will see if theories of instruction will help us answer some of these questions.
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    First of all thanks for the video. It reminded me the "Fatih Project" in Turkey as well regarding the pre, primary and elementary level students using their own technological access during learning process. It is supposed to be completed at the end of 2013 however the same instructional and motivational questions trigger me to question its function. When we consider th learning as a whole such personal use may turn out to be misuse without interfere but in specific cases such as vocabulary teaching through learner's independent autonomy, I can support the idea. We should be clear about what is the target audience and the issue, though.
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    Such educational frameworks support the trend of shift from teacher-centeredness to student-centeredness. In the past, when we need to ask something, we asked to our elders- in school, to teachers. Now, we have an additional elder, the internet. It can answer almost anything. In that sense, the impact of the technology can not be ignored. The idea of providing internet access to places that is scarce in terms of teachers is reasonable - which also supports the idea of distance education. Besides, bringing technology is easier and cheaper than bringing a teacher with resources. However, we still need teachers as -cliche but vital term- "facilitators" and regulators in self-learning process. It is necessary for constructivism as well as child-driven education or for any other self-learning methods. Someone is needed for wrapping-up the knowledge gained, for assessing the results, for remedying circumstances that obstruct the learning process, for deciding goals or organizing goals to be attained, and for secure and heuristic browsing on the internet. In that sense, I support the idea of "self organized learning environments" as Mitra offers, but also I contend that there should be teachers around these environments for facilitating. In short, we should not quit important elements of education while trying to make it better.
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    I believe although computers and instructional softwares are amazing to enhance the effectiveness of instruction, they are not enough. They are always limited. It is impossible to load them all possible questions of students and their responses. Moreover, none of the computers or softwares would be able to fulfill students' emotional and motivational needs. There is also the uniqueness of the students; not all of the students would enjoy a computer-based education. Lastly, as a science educator when I think for my area; it is never the same to make an experiment on computer and in a laboratory. Students learn better when they are actively engaged in an experiment and seethe results with their eyes.
dozoran

Pearson launches The Learning Curve - 1 views

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    Why we need good teachers? Why "EDS-536 Research and Practice on Technology in Teacher Education" course is important? From the site: "Good teachers are essential and need respect: There is no substitute for good teachers. The impact of good teachers extends beyond positive educational outcomes and can be linked to positive societal factors, such as lower levels of teenage pregnancy and a greater tendency to save for retirement. Creating the best teachers is about more than paying a good salary. The best performing countries attract top talent, train teachers throughout their careers and allow them freedom too."
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    Dincer, thanks for making a connection to the course. A reform in teacher education is a must in our country. The research indicates the quality of preservice teacher education is one of the biggest predictors of the student success. This finding by itself seems to explain this urgent need for a reform!
Evrim Baran

Teachers and Teaching Metaphors - 8 views

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    My best choice of educational metaphor among the slides: http://goo.gl/clcMR (Just click) Not just because of the "bike" :) But because of 1- Advice for instructor to control his/her power: Use your knowledge power in favor of the student not just for your ego! 2- Let him do it! By the way i like bikes also :D
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    And my best choice is: http://imageshack.us/a/img692/9519/28990061.png Although it is not common throughout the world to implement an educational system that raises children with consciousness about differences in cultures, religions, and thoughts among people and to impose tolerance toward these differences, a teacher should bring this idea into the classrooms (s/he can teach these values while presenting any topic, s/he can give examples and make associations about justice and tolerance etc.)
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    Most of the methaphors are impressive but my favourite ones are 6th and 10th because most working teachers have difficulties expressed in those. "You work hard, prepare things and always want students to learn the concepts perfectly but it doesn't go as you think or planned." but teaching is http://imageshack.us/a/img407/2797/slide6728.jpg
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    I like the last one most, because it emphasizes the uniqueness of the students and states that a teacher should not try to gain students what s/he know/believe; s/he should help them to find their own way and accept them as who they are.
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    Metaphors in here are pretty similar as we did in the moodle :) Anyway, I feel qualifiedas a teacher when I saw the 10th slide. I believe that breaking someone free is an amazing effort.
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    I like the one which teachers cultivate the feeds of knowledge, they plant within their students. Teaching is the long process and requires more effort from both teacher and student. And also suitable land is te essential one in order to constitute knowledge.
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    The tenth slight is interesting for me. "Teaching is like crossing borders..." I think that we can associate the border with instruction or kinds of instructional methods or theories because on one side there is the individual who learns and on the other side there is the individual who teachs. Therefore the "border" can refer to the instruction as an instrument between the teaching and learning processes.
Hatice Çilsalar

Reklam - 1 views

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    This is the biggest problem of universities and It should be solved as soon as possible. what is wrong with these faculty, are students worng with chosing them or are lecturer wrong whilw working for them or other else???
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    I feel really nervous about new generation who is willing to achieve in scientific fields. I have read that German government save %60 of their total budgets for universities to invest on science. They do not consider engineering as a science field. They basically design their university facilities with scientific equipments and labs for experiments.
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    To become a teacher is not for those faculties, the thought of at least becoming a teacher (sorry for chicken translation) makes quality of teacher education decrease. Mehmet Şişman, one of the member of YÖK, mentioned in the teacher training and development symposium in Uşak that when they tried to repeal pedagogical formation most of faculty of science argued with the issue, so they have decided to go on the system for a while. There are a lot of students studying those faculties not knowing what to do, still government insists on increasing the capacity of the departments. Without calculating the ratio of employment to the capacity, of couse those people do not want to lose one more chance of getting a job, unfortunately...
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    I think we have really problem about the role of arts&scince faculty. they are supposed to prepare students to be scientists or instructors but not teachers. however, when we look at capacity of these faculties make us think that Turkey has most crowded scientist population in the world! I think for arts&science faculty we need increase in quality but decrease in numbers of capacity.
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    The mission and vision of the arts and science faculties should be presented clearly to high school students or to people who are about to make a decision about a department. Unfortunately, being a university graduate is perceived like a rare feature so most of the high school graduates try to enter a university avoiding the profession and department. Also, the students who hold a BS degree of a department of arts and science faculty should have given more opportunities, like scholarships or job opportunities, so that they will be able to continue their graduate education in a arts and science faculty.
Erdem Uygun

A letter to the teacher - 3 views

I ran accross the entry below while roaming one of the online dictionaries (itu, eksi, uludag etc.). A teacher shared one of his student's message to the teacher: 5.sınıf öğrencisi. sınav ka...

letter humanism collaboration cooperative education Schools

started by Erdem Uygun on 14 Dec 12 no follow-up yet
Erdem Uygun

Eğitim Bilişim Ağı - 0 views

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    The link to the pool that has been prepared for technology based educational materials for FATİH project. In this pool, teachers and students can send several educational materials that they created or they were using in classroom environment. They aim to extend the content with contributions of people who are actively in education in Turkey. However, it is obvious that the project needs professional e-content materials. Videos, pdf's are ok but multimedia based tools are needed.
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    Erdem thank you for sharing this website, I haven't heard about this before. While I was teaching to elementary level children I used fenokulu.net a lot as a turkish source. Now I think I can also make use of this one in the future. I also liked the fact that the website contains the pdf formats of "Bilim ve Çocuk". Very rich website indeed :)
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    Erdem, I wonder if there is any section on the website that include resources/guidelines for teachers. E.g. how to integrate those simulations in the classrooms.
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    Canan, I hope it will help, thank you, Hocam, there are just materials in the pool. I downloaded 10th grade math teacher guidelines released by Ministry of Education and started to read some sections. I saw that they offer recommendations like "using a dynamic math software, students do...". However, I don't know if they will handle the learning and usage of such software in in-service trainings. I wish I could bring more information about the system but they have not answered my CV and my sample work yet,
Erdem Uygun

Constructivism with Second Life Island Project - 1 views

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    Here is my constructivist environment example. In the past, I installed the second life software considering that it was a game. I roamed and roamed in worlds that already were created, chatted with people in another countries with my avatar. Then I thought that it was boring. It was just like sitting on Sunshine and talking with friends. Why I had to do this via my computer? This video shows us how Second Life Worlds can be used to create constructivist learning environments. In the video, a Second Life World that was prepared by a group of people called TELLS TEAM is presented. In this world, you can attend lectures, have group meetings for discussion, work on simulations and role plays whereever you are. All participants including the teacher has an avatar and walking, sitting, chatting as if they were in the same room. In this project, learners are active participants. They roam, talk, immediately can fly to role playing sessions and etc. Teacher is only responsible to present initial knowledge. I could not find how they evaluate the learners. However, it is up to you. This environment is just a tool. You can arrange your role plays, your simulations, and also your assesment. Also they have some guides to use the environment effectively on this web site: https://sites.google.com/site/secondlifeuwnshss/Home
Hatice Çilsalar

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About - 0 views

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    This is an interesting website hich incleudes different web connections in it. All connections include different sources and web pages which is related to educational development both students and teacher. You can check all pages, I could not check all of them, because they are too much :). ı suggest this webside.
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    A great collection. Thank you for sharing!
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    It is difficult to keep up with all new technologies that can be used for learning and techning. However, this is a good compilation of different tools
Gamze Çetinkaya

Humanism for Schools - 1 views

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    A useful website including examples of learning and teaching materials about humanism.
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    Gamze, thanks for sharing. Especially I liked the "humanist perspectives" part since a teacher might not have difficulty in implementing a pre-planned curriculum, however, s/he might have hardship while creating a humanistic classroom. Because, in education, what is a humanistic element is and what is not is not so clear as traditional views. Remember what Ana said, "It seems some of you think that humanism means freeing yourselves or the educational environment. Humanism means enabling students to set a goal and work together to achieve that goal." Ana tries to say that we should not let learning occurs just by chance. That is not humanism. Humanistic teacher just should allow students what they want to do and teach them considering their way of learning and interests. That's why I found humanist perspectives part really useful. To illustrate, to touch on environmental issues in the classroom, you can read the related part for grasping the idea of how a humanistic teacher should behave while teaching this issue.
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.
Evrim Baran

Why memorising facts can be a keystone to learning | Teacher Network | Guardian Profess... - 2 views

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    here is the mentioned Asch's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA I have seen it before in one my psychology students' presentation. At that time, I found this very surprising and it helped me become more suspicious of how students affect each other during interactive activities.
Burcu Korkusuz

Pre-service teacher education - 0 views

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    It is a video about stimulus for teacher education especially in terms of preventing burnout
Burcu Korkusuz

Interaction between the teacher and students - 3 views

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    The interaction between the student and the teacher should be manipulated according to the content of the lesson, objectives, materials and instruments as shown in the video. Making the class more engaging requires effective conversation and good communication between the teacher and student.
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    Great video for classroom management lessons. :)
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    This is a good way forcreating active learning enviroment. Also it includes more alternatives like individual or group working. But it seems good for small class size.
Gamze Çetinkaya

Epistemological worldviews - 4 views

These are the articles related to epistemological world view scale which I brought to the classroom yesterday. Schraw, G., & Olafson, L. (2002). Teachers' epistemological world views and educati...

epistemology epistemological beliefs worldviews

started by Gamze Çetinkaya on 02 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
sinem sözen

A Look At Finish School - 1 views

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    A friend of mine has been in Finland as a teacher. I will share the anecdote she told us. While she was in her first weeks, she gave homework since it is holiday tomorrow, I think she exaggerated the giving homework. Classroom teacher came near to her and said Seçil, what are you doing? Tomorrow is holiday, they need to rest. That's why I am very interested in.
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    Sinem, thanks for sharing. This is also another related article on Finnish Educational system http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/46581035.pdf
Burcu Korkusuz

Humanistic Teacher - 1 views

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    Here is an interesting video for the essence of humanistic approach with a small introduction of a book "First the Child, Then Curriculum" by Donna Allender, a humanist teacher.
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    I was gonna share the same video but I doubted reposting it. Here you are :) "Today, I don't wanna learn RED, I wanna learn YELLOW" maybe explains little bit about humanistic learning :)
dozoran

İki Dil Bir Bavul - FILM/DOCUMENTARY - 0 views

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    This is another film about education. In this Turkish film, a western teacher goes to an eastern (kurdish) village to teach 1,2,3,4,5th grades together. It will surely provoke you to think about education in Turkey as well as daily lives of eastern people.
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    I have watched this film and I was really influenced, Thank your giving it as an example for us.
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    I also watched the movie couple times. Very touching and forces us to think about the current situation that teachers face in Eastern part of Turkey. Thanks for sharing.
Hatice Çilsalar

like multiple intelligence class - 0 views

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    an real example from Korea
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    What I also find interesting is, somebody watching the video asked questions to the teacher in the video about working in Korea as a teacher. The power of social media!!
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