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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​

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​

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...

  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.

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 be...

  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​

  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...

Women vs Men Girls vs Boys Females vs Males You have probably realized that I have written masculine names with pink and feminine names with blue. If the case were the opposite you would not even realize it. Most of the peoples' brains are wired to stereotyping genders. In schools stereotyping is hidden in lessons. It is possible to see many things such as "Tom likes to play with cars, Margaret likes to play with girls", "Tom's dad fixes the washing machine while Margaret's mother washes the dishes" these two are just examples from gender stereotyping. But it has a big effect on students' lives. For instance, mathematics and physics are seen to have negative relations with female gender, in addition to the science they all are seen as a male work area (Makarova & Herzog, 2015). This affects students when they choose their profession, girls tend  not to prefer being an engineer since it is a male dominated and masculine profession. When the case...

Can students be teachers or only teachers can teach efficiently? According to a research when students teach to each other, they learn twice as efficient than they learn alone (Whitman, 1988). Peer teaching and learning is described as a peer teacher teaching to students in a similar age groups with the students who are learning (Fink, 2020). In this context, a student becomes a teacher and teaches to their friends or other students at the same age group. It is also done by enabling students to help and teach other during the lessons. Unlike the common belief, students are also good teachers because there are many benefits of peer teaching. When a peer teacher teaches a subject or a lesson, the other students find them fun and enjoyable (Graziano, 2017) because they share the similar values, ethics, and enjoy similar things because they belong in the same generation. The students' prejudice towards the lesson may change positively, they can get motivated by their peers, it promotes...

Mathematics, we  have always had dreams about it. Generally it is found boring by the students, personally it was kind of boring but it was always an interesting subject for me. Frankly, there is a thing called gamification, beware it is not gaming, gamification is applying game concepts to non-game environments with the aim of education. We can apply these principles to mathematics too, and it is also found that gamified education increases students' performance level in mathematics (Jagust et al., 2018). Mathematics teachers should try to gamify their lessons, there are some ways to do it. (Khare, 2018) Rules, goals and objectives should be set when gamifying a subject, mathematical problems can be used to create those objectives; puzzles can be done about equations and other mathematical subjects. Badges can be given for achievements such as solving an equation, explaining a hard mathematical concept to other students, completing the homework successfully etc. You can find a det...

 Here is my educational video about writing an Essay. I hope you like it.

Have you ever experienced a blackout just before you had some assignments to do? Do you need to prepare some materials for your students but you don't have access to your computer? Is your computer too old to handle those things? Do not worry my colleague, I am at your rescue, it is not possible to carry a computer all times, we all know it well. Frankly, there are some ways to create teaching material through our mobile phones.  Another point I want to talk about is using mobile apps during the lessons. Especially it has been found that Kahoot provides students with increased attention span, increased engagement, fun, enjoyment (Licorsish et al., 2018). Also it has been noted that it creates a positive learning environment for students by providing them with quality time, they increase students' willingness to participate in the lesson by gamifying the context (Bicen & Kocakoyun, 2018) . I have some recommendations to share with you if you are interested in learning that k...

  Making mistakes or not making mistakes? Have you ever been afraid of making a mistake and because of this you have not answered questions of your teacher? That happened to me so I will assume that it happened to you too. But as teachers we should be aware of that making mistakes are essential for students to progress. No student was born with a mind good at everything. That's why we should let students make mistakes and we should never discourage them when they make mistakes. Just let them know that it is okay to do errors and mistakes, and mistakes are necessary to learn and gain experience from. So they should see it as an advantage for their learning rather than a halt. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

  Reading books or not reading books, that is the question. Reading is on option, but nowadays it is neglected. People do not want to read, mainly the fact that our technological devices provide us with many interactive media, so people get bored when they read books and they cannot hold to it. But the thing is, if you do not read even if you do know how to read, you do not have any difference between a person who does not know to read. Reading improves you, your mind and the way of thinking. As teachers we should aim to make students get the habit of reading, it can be books, magazines, articles, comics, actually anything they can learn from. Because most of the habits are formed in school years. This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

Do you know how to choose a profession? Do you know that the profession that you will choose will shape your future life? Since we are teachers we should lead students to the right path. I want to share a story of mine. Since childhood I have always wanted to be a teacher. But my teachers always told me "Do not be a teacher, it is a bad profession, be a doctor or engineer, did you lose your mind?". I also tried to change my subject  from mathematics to English, but my teachers ignored me. Anyway, I got accepted in the Teaching Mathematics department at Marmara University and in my second year I started doing double major in Teaching English Language. If I had been guided better, I could have achieved better. So, what I am trying to prove is that if a student is sure about his profession, as teachers we should help them to achieve their goals. If they do not know what profession to choose, we should help them. There are some steps we can provide. First, assess the student...

It is peculiar that I have always been aware of Ma yer's Principles of Multimedia Learning. But the thing is that I didn't know their names. I will briefly describe the principles, but I will not go into detail by giving their names.  1: Do not include distracting materials. 2: Signal the most important part. 3: Do narration and graphics together but do not include text as a third element. 4: Relevant things should be physically grouped. 5: Visuals + Voice-over should be done simultaneously. 6: Divide information into sections. 7: Do a pre-training to recall background knowledge. 8: Visuals and spoken words are better than visuals and text. 9: Pictures are better teachers than texts. 10: Informal addressing helps humans to learn better. 11: Human voice should be preferred over a robotic voice. 12: You do not need to put your head in a video, it does not help with learning. Basically these are the principles to apply when producing a video teaching material, from now on you shou...

​ I believe that you all heard about Cyber-Bullying. Do you know how hard it is to deal with it? ​ Considering the fact that people who are subjected  to cyber bullying also face being bullied in the real life, which makes things worse. There are a few things we can do to prevent it. ​ 1- Do not respond to them because that’s what they want you to do. ​ 2- Try not to take their comments seriously and do not reread them. ​ 3- If you can, block them from your social media accounts and seek help from an adult.​ 4-If bullying keeps happening, collect data, messages, images, email, posts etc. first report their messages to the posts.​ 5- As a last choice report them to authorities. ​ This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​

  What do you think when you see this sentence? Do you even consider it as a sentence? ​ Actually, it is grammatically correct, and even has a real meaning. Languages are not obvious systems; it is not an easy task to comprehend all of their properties. ​ Let me explain the sentence you see on the right. Buffalo is an animal name, also there is a city called Buffalo in New York, and buffalo as a verb means “to bully” so when you put all these things up it means Buffalo buffalos which Buffalo buffalos buffaloed buffaloes Buffalo buffaloes. It may still be confusing, if you are interested in learning about it more, click here . ​ This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​ ​ ​ ​ ​

  Do you know whom to believe in? How can we be sure if they tell the truth but the whole truth? Imagine that you go to a park and see a child swinging.​  When you approach him, he tells you to never trust old men. You find it peculiar and sit on a bench next to an old man. The man tells you children always tell the truth.​  Now you remember what the child has told you:  "never trust old men". But this man says to trust in children. If you believe the child's words, you must not trust the old man. But if you do, then you should not trust the child at all. Who is telling the truth?​  Basically this is called "Liar Paradox". You can find further information on  here . This post was designed for EDT5004 BAU, Spring 2021​ ​ ​ ​