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Some Notes on Instructional Design
The previous semester, I had the chance to take the Instructional Design Course from Ayhan Doğan who is a great teacher. So I want to share some of my notes here which I took before, during and after the lesson.
First I want to start with the Introduction to Instructional Design (Dick & Carey, 2001). I’m just going to make a brief summary of that chapter with some visuals I prepared.
The first chapter starts with a traditional instructional process which contains only learners, textbooks and instructors. To teach the students already existing content in their textbook was the duty of the teacher. According to this, training the teacher would be enough to raise the learning.
However, the modern appearance of the instructional process includes learners, instructional materials, instructor, and learning environment. It is more systematic. In the chapter, we also have a chance to find the answer to a question: What is a system? In a system, every single unit reckons upon each other. Every unit of the system (materials, instructor, learner, environment) is related to each other. The failure of one means the hitch of the whole. The instructional system evolves whenever something goes wrong, it automatically starts to look for a solution that can make itself better. For example, if a student has a problem with the present perfect tense and s/he doesn’t understand the way the instructor taught, then a new way should be found. But on the contrary, I believe the system should change continuously. The process should improve progressively without needing a failure in order to change.
In the “Components of the Systems Approach Model” part, Dick and Carey explain us the instructional system design step by step. I think this part is to ease our understanding of the whole concept. However, as the authors said, if you are a novice, you will understand the system better when “you begin to use” it. So the first chapter crayons the aims, the utility of the instructional process and why should we use the systems approach.
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6th Educational Technology Summit
Yesterday on 2nd March of February, I had a chance to attend the 6th Educational Technology Summit spectacularly coordinated by Işıl Boy Ergül. It was instructive and educational training that lasted from 8 am to 7 pm. Every second was filled with knowledge and joy. It was really successful in terms of raising awareness and consciousness about the future in education.
This year, suitable with the motto of the event (From Past to Future), a group called Flapper Swing appeared on stage with the dancers. They were unexpectedly fascinating, professional and quite fun, however, I would expect a more technological opening.
In the workshops and presentations, I found answers to questions like “How can we use technology effectively in education? How can we be creative in the lesson and does creativity have any boundaries? How can we create rich lessons using AR and VR applications? What is Artificial Intelligence and what is the relationship between AI and education? Do school designs affect success? How to be a game-friendly-school?” Serdar Kuzuloğlu, who made the closing speech, mentioned about the uncertain future that is waiting for us and how hard is to educate our children to that unknown future.
The summit was really energetic, you can see the excitement on staff members’ face. It was obvious that they worked hard, and it was worth it. It was a day full of learning, technology, and fun. I would like to thank personally the architecture of this successful summit, Işıl Boy Ergül, and her cool organization committee to bring such valuable people together. I am looking forward excitedly to the ETZ20.
If you want to know more about the summit, you can follow their Instagram account: “edtechsummit” or you can visit the website: https://www.egitimteknolojilerizirvesi.com/en/
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