COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIGITAL STORIES IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMK 5033 DIGITAL STORIES IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Chemistry Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYBÜKE PABUÇCU AKIŞ

Offered to

Chemistry Teacher Education

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to inform students about using digital stories in chemistry education and to provide them some example guidelines for designing digital stories for chemistry classrooms.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   write short stories for chemistry classrooms
2   explain the components of digital stories
3   design digital stories for chemistry classrooms
4   evaluate digital stories designed for chemistry classrooms

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Role of Storytelling in Science Education
2 2. Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool-Argumentation
3 3. Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool- 5E Model
4 4. Digital Storytelling as an Educational Tool- STEM Education
5 5. Components of Digital Stories-Scenario
6 6. Components of Digital Stories-Story Board
7 7. Components of Digital Stories-Multimedia elements
8 8. Tools for Digital Stories- I
9 9. Tools for Digital Stories- II
10 10. Tools for making cartoons
11 11. Tools for making animations
12 12. Homework presentations
13 13. Homework presentations
14 14. Assessing digital stories
15 15. General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

* Pabuccu, A. (2019). Fen Eğitiminde Dijital Hikayeler. Fen ve Matematik Eğitiminde Teknolojik Yaklaşımlar, Akgündüz, D., Ed., ISBN: 978-605-170-301-5, Anı Yayıncılık, Ankara, 229-244.
* Pabuccu, A. (2019). Kimya Eğitiminde Hikayelerin Gücü. Eğitimde Hikâyenin Gücü, Ed., Yakıncı, C. ve Kızılay, A., ISBN: 978-605-7853-07-3, Inönü Üniversitesi Yayınevi, Malatya, 115-122.
* Ohler, J.B. (2013). Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning, and Creativity, Corwin Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Doing research, project preparation, discussion, making presentation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Evaluation of homework and presentation materials

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to the course is important

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aybuke.pabuccuakis@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday between 15.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 3 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 10 100
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Final 1 3 3
Project Final Presentation 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 196

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.154445
LO.2544
LO.3543445
LO.454334