Who is digital native?

                                               Who is digital native?

Digital Natives are people, who have grown up in the digital world using technology as a way to,

     ·         communicate,

     ·         record,

     ·         educate,

     ·         and understand society

Digital natives have had access to computers, cell phones, email, and other forms of technology since birth. The digital natives possess a high level of media literacy. A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life. Digital natives are comfortable doing more than one thing at once, and in fact sometimes need to be doing more than one thing at once in order to be productive.

Positive characterizes of digital natives;

•        working in teams
•         greater self-confidence and independency
•          higher intelligence
•          achievement orientation
•          innovation
•          entertainment oriented
•          critical approach towards information

Digital natives learn much better through active learning; by doing rather than learning through instructions. Digital tool based visual and auditory things therefore their skills more developed.

On the other hand; there are some negative effects on the children. Negative characteristics

·         superficial interests

·         attention disorders

·         speech disorders

·         aggression

·         personality disorders

What is Media Literacy?

                                            

                                What is Media Literacy?

                                                            Media literacy is a repertoire of competencies that enable people to;

•   analyze,
•  evaluate,
• and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms. Education for media literacy often uses an inquiry-based pedagogic model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, hear, and read. Media literacy education provides tools to help people critically analyze messages, offers opportunities for learners to broaden their experience of media, and helps them develop creative skills in making their own media messages. Media literacy education may provide a type of protection to children and young people by helping them make good choices in their media consumption habits, and patterns of usage.

Media literacy skills can help children, youth and adults:

•      Develop critical thinking skills
•       Understand how media messages shape our culture and society
•      Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, skills, beliefs,
•      Create and distribute our own media message
•      Advocate for a changed media system

What is the LMS (Learning Management System)?

                           
                                          What is the LMS (Learning Management System)?

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning education courses or training programs. LMSs range from systems for managing training and educational records to software for distributing online or blended/hybrid college courses over the Internet with features for online collaboration. It supports classroom teaching and offering courses to a larger population of learners. A lot of learners can be online at the same time. And they can reach all content whenever they want.  Multiple users can access the LMS at any given point in time. Teachers can upload assignments, quizzes, discussions, survey, file or folder about their lessons.  Students can review their performance based on the tests and quizzes conducted by the teachers. And these things can reach by students. LMS accommodates various features- documentation and administration, recording and tracking events and programs, classroom learning.

Advantages of an LMS;

·               Easily adapting and reusing materials over time

·              More choices for creators of curriculum

·              Improvements in professional development and evaluation

Educational Games

                                          Educational Games

Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or which have incidental or secondary educational value. Educational games are games that are designed to teach people about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. Educational games for kids make learning fun with math facts, language arts, and more. 

Especially kids can learn alphabet,  numbers, colors, animals or fruits with playing simple educational games. And advancing ages children can learn something such as; history or languages with games. When children are very young playing educational games may be the only way to hold their attention. Games has visual and auditory element. This element helps the children taking attention at a long time. The games are an extension of their play time while they learn social skills and coordination. Because this games requires the ability to more than one thing at the same time. Therefore children’s skills can be developing with playing these games. 

Social media and use of social media in classroom

                                       Social media and use of social media in classroom

 Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Web 2.0 is allows to creating visual things and sharing visual and auditory. The widespread use of social media has increased the use of web 2.0. Especially the there are millions of users of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Millions of user actively uses Twitter and Facebook every day. And they regularly share something such as photographs or videos from followers or friends.

   Social media allows;

              ·           Sharing

              ·         Communication

              ·         Collaboration

              ·         Current news

    In the education social media is;

             ·          Develop communication skills

             ·  Improve participation and socia    cohesion

             ·          Empowers relationships with friends

             ·          Allows the realization of collaborative learning

            ·          Easily applicable

Facebook allows to collaboration learning in the education. And it allows students to develop research and querying skills. It provide discussion skill from the students because they can do comment the discussion topics. Student’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills can be increase. And they can learn; How to use the social media? It means they can learn media literacy. 

social media infographic

         1.  Twitter is actively used by many users on the word wide. 

         2. Twitter events spread very fast.

         3. Twitter allows lot of thing for users such as; sharing something, asking question, listing  and   doing organization

         4. Twitter is used on the web, mobile application or twitter client.

         5. Twitter users generally follow own suggestion by friends or they do online search for following somebody and sometimes suggested by twitter.

Why are you taking this course?

                                         

                                                             Why are you taking this course?

My department is Computer Education and Instructional Technology. Instructional technology have to follow some developing and changing technology such as blogs, games, simulations, wiki, etc. And also I should follow and use these developing and changing technologies in my instruction. For this reason, I am trying to develop on this issue. I want to use these subjects effectively when I give a lesson. In the first step for that I took a game based learning lesson at last year. Thanks to this course, I learned how I can design an educational game. And now, I want to learn how I can use these educational games in my lessons. How I can do gamification in the classroom. Moreover, I want to learn tools which are most effective for taking my students’ attentions by following developing new educational technology. I hope that end of the course, I will use these new media  tools effectively in my instruction.