COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED REFLECTIVE APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EBT 6018 TECHNOLOGY-SUPPORTED REFLECTIVE APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Educational Technologies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Educational Technologies

Course Objective

Through the Technology-Supported Reflective Applications course, it is aimed to develop and improve the students both reflective thinking skills and reflective practice experience with the help Web 2.0 technologies. By running hands-on activities during the course, the students will raise awareness with regard to the potential benefits of these technologies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the key terms related to reflective practice,
2   Interpret the importance of reflective practice in terms of educational aspects.
3   Discuss about the reflective practice models and choose the most appropriate model for varied needs.
4   Plan technology-supported reflective practice activities for a certain learning need.
5   Conduct technology-supported reflective practice activities through recent Web 2.0 technologies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Reflective practice: History and Relation to Education Field
2 Key terms of reflective practice: Reflection, reflective thinking and reflective judgement
3 Key terms of reflective practice: Reflective teacher, education and learning
4 Reflective practice: Description, properties and procedure.
5 Reflective practice: Models and levels.
6 Reviewing the best reflective practices.
7 Mid-term exam
8 Strategies supporting to improve reflective practice.
9 Website creation tools: Blogs and wikis.
10 Knowledge organization and sharing tools: Social bookmarking and aggregrators.
11 Multimodal production tools: Digital storytelling and comic strip creation
12 Text-based tools: Note taking and discussion boards.
13 Image-based tools: Mindmapping and word clouds
14 Multimedia organizaton and sharing
15 Student presentations and course evaluations.

Recomended or Required Reading

Johns, C. (2004). Becoming a reflective practitioner. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Joyce, T. M. (2013). Reflective practice through blogging: An alternative for open and distance learning context. Journal of Communication, 4(2), 123-130.
Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. USA: Basic books.
Taggart, G.L. & Wilson; A.P. (2005). Promoting reflective thinking in teachers: 50 action strategies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Thompson, N. & Pascal, J. (2012). Developing critically reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 13(2), 311-325.
Zeichner, K. M., & Tabachnick, B. R. (2001). Reflections on reflective teaching. Teacher development: exploring our own practice, 1, 72.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Observation (Examplary practices), Discussion, Question-Answer, Case Study, Brainstorming, Preparing&presenting a report.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

In-class participation, written homework, discussions, student reflections, presentations of examplary practices, hands-on activities through Web 2.0 technologies.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr.Öğr.Üyesi Elif Buğra KUZU DEMIR
Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi Bölümü,
Hasan Ali Yücel Binası, Kat-3
elif.demir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.434433533
LO.535553533

CONTACT INFORMATION
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