EduCom isn’t just the system that brings technological solutions to education,
it also supports the further computer education and systems. EduCom gives opportunity
to teachers, students and education directors to analyze, to use and to create new
computer management systems.
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Connecting Education And Technology
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The "Education & Computer Connection" is a valuable source of
information for educators, parents and students who use technology
and the internet to enhance learning. As educators, we must be positive
role models for our students. Students must see teachers as proficient users
of technology in the classroom. Teachers must provide opportunities for
students to access the Internet and to develop high-quality activities
with hands-on use of current technology.
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Technology in the Classroom:
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The use of computers, technology applications
and hands-on learning enables each student to tie-in your classroom o
bjectives and make a connection to real-world applications.
This methodology gives each student equal access to a world of knowledge
limited only by the imagination.
As an example, in Doga Schools a project called
YUTES (High-Tech Education System) has been started with Turkey Formal Science Center
TUBİTAK. That system contains fully high-tech classrooms. You can find detailed
information about these in the pages of this school. EduCom is supporting this
project in the ‘managament analyzes’ step.
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Technology for Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
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OVERVIEW:
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Teaching is changing and, in many ways, becoming a more difficult job
because of increasingly numerous contradictory expectations, including the following:
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We are living in an age of information overload with the expectation that
students will learn high-level skills such as how to access, evaluate, analyze, and
synthesize vast quantities of information. At the same time, teachers are evaluated
by their ability to have students pass tests that often give no value to these abilities.
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Teachers are expected to teach students to solve complex problems that require
knowledge necessary across many subject areas even as they are held accountable
for the teaching and learning of isolated skills and information.
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Teachers are expected to meet the needs of all students and move them toward
fulfillment of their individual potential even as they are pressured to prepare
students for maximum performance on high-stakes assessment tests that are the primary
measure of student and school success.
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Technology can actually assist with some of these expectations and make teachers-and
their students—more successful. However, as the world becomes more
complex—virtually year-to-year instead of the generation-to-generation pace of most of
the last century—educational needs continue to shift from teaching and learning isolated
skills and information within each content area, to teaching skills that enable students
to solve complex problems across many areas. Educators must prepare for a technology-rich
future and keep up with change by adopting effective strategies that infuse lessons with
appropriate technologies. This makes a uthentic assessment needs even more important:
Assessments must keep pace with effective instructional technology use. All this while
educators at every level, but teachers especially, actively pursue professional development
that enables a lifelong exploration of ways to enhance the teaching and learning of science
and mathematics and support science and mathematics education reform.
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