METU EDS 544

Pinker, talking about his famous book. I recommend reading the book.

As written, it is open all for the stakeholders to evaluate this draft.

A text that I found while searching for something else. It was fun to read it.

This will be one of the readings for the Humanism week

The author tries to give the state-of-art of Education in Turkey while stating some theories of education.

Educators, instructors,teachers are force being passive to actively enroll in education system of Turkey. Sometimes I think that there is no any other option than writing your thoughts. Doing, implementing, creating, producing sth are not your actions any more, or am I so pessimistic lately?

A practice on task based teaching.

Looks like audiences unintentionally participated , however , organizing such an activity is a nice idea, I guess. Hope students did not think reverse though.

First, there should be simple changes in the classroom. Then more complex ones will be taken into consideration. What I mean is that for example most of the studies are nearly screaming that main problems of the education system, lack of teachers, lack of space which is suitable for learning, lack of classrooms. I can not say anything about their intent of refreshing the education system, but can't understand the ignorance of such physical problems. Maslow pyramid..

The system has not recognized that the curricula is not a seat that we can change constantly. They are also not aware that it is not easy to implement it with a sudden change.

You can find the famous basis of Piaget's developmental stages via demonstrations.

They summarized the main ideas briefly.Thats nice. Also the backgound music is really complementary :)