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Educational Post 8: Mathmares

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 Mathmares! How do you feel when I say mathematics to you? Most of the people are scared of mathematics, some even think mathematics like a nightmare, they see at nights. What is the real cause behind this? Actually, mathematics is not as hard as it sounds, it seems hard because of the prejudice we have. Most of the people's fathers, mothers always say that "Mathematics is hard! I could never do it at high school, I always flunked!" and we keep saying it to our children. They grow up hearing that mathematics is hard. That's why they give up doing mathematics before even trying to understand it. Mathematics is not hard, but people make it sound like hard. You may not like mathematics, that can be accepted. But everyone can learn mathematics if they really want to learn, all we have to do is to leave our prejudice behind. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

Educational Post 10: Learning a new language

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In today's world most of the world population know English, but does that mean we do not need to learn another language? The answer is not really, there are many benefits of learning another language in addition to English. Each new language brings you a new personality, it provides you with a different perspective to see the worlds. It introduces you to a new culture. It is fun to learn a new language, it can provide you with many different job opportunities. It is now easier to learn a new language than before, there are many resources and applications online. Last but not least, it helps you to deal with dementia, since it increases gray area in the brain which directly correlates with memory. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

Blog 9: Physical Education

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Is Physical Education in schools, useless or not? In schools there are many activities that students do for physical education, jumping, climbing, running, playing football, basketball, gymnastics and the list goes on. Some students see physical education as a pointless activity. The students should be active, because a person till they become adults, have the energy to go on whole day, do many activities, but at the same time they need to recharge, use muscles build up strength. It cannot be deniable that students sit on their chairs all day long, they only have 10 minute breaks in between the lessons. And most of the students only go to the toilet because 10 minutes are not long enough to do anything. Now here is the problem, how these students will move and regain their focus? Physical Education lessons come to aid this situation, even though they are not much in lesson time they do have many benefits. According to a research the main benefits of physical education is it develops st

Educational Post 9: Physical Education waste of time or not?

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  Did you enjoy physical education lessons in school? Did you always find a way not to join them? I was the latter one. I was a chubby guy and I have never liked doing sports. I have always found a way of not joining them. Until my university life I have never done sports, but after experiencing doing sports, now I totally agree with the fact that Physical Education is necessary for students and I will claim this fact for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it enables students to reduce their weekly stress, it acts like a reliever. It teaches collaboration, most of sports done teaches teamwork to the students. It develops their motor skills, not every person is active during the day, it creates an opportunity for that type of people.

Blog 10: The future of Technology, Education and Gaming

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What will be the future of technology? What lies within this electronic world? Back in my day games were use to be played just for fun.  But there are many games that teach something to people now.   As a person who grow up playing minecraft (started playing at version 1.2.5 when ihave just started to high school). I want to talk about Minecraft primarily. It is a game that people from all ages can enjoy, from 3 year olda to 70 years olds. There is a system called 'redstone' it is kind of programing with blocks,  so there are people who create gigantic machines,  systems such as computer, calculator. It supports modding etc. So why not use it for educational purposes since it attracts almost everyone?  Actually there is Minecraft Education edition. It is mostly used for STEM education since it provides the teachers with great opportunity to put theorethical knowledge into practice. Acording to qualitative research made by Sajben (2020) it has beeb observed that it i

Educational Post 7: All Students are Teachers

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  Student interaction's playing a  big role in learning is an undeniable fact in 21st century. Are you one of the teachers that still follows teacher-based learning styles? If so, don't you think it's time for a change? Because it is known that peer interaction contributes a lot to students' learning process. There are some ways to increase this interaction and decrease your talking time in the class. Firstly, you can let students ask each other questions related to the topic, or the subject you are teaching. Create some opportunities for them to interact with each other. Do pair-work and teamwork activities, let them do projects together. Moreover, student interaction is enjoyable for the students so you will get more of your lesson. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

Educational Post 6: Gender in Education

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  People always say that  m en and women "are" equal. Indeed all genders are equal. But do we have the same treatment in education? There are many course books that stereotype and categorize people. Some examples can be given such as "My father goes to work, my mother washes the dishes, and my mother is a housewife" in English books, they are all filled up with sentences like these. "Housewife" is the first occupation that is taught to students most of the time. Together, we can change this. We must stop stereotyping, discriminating in gender, as teachers we have the role to stop it, and we have the control over it. Simply when you see sentences like these in a book, try to change  them when you teach. Course books are just there to lead you, but you can modify them as you wish. If we don't, those stereotypes get wired in students' brains, which disorient their vision of reality about genders. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 202