blogathon comments

People that I have left a comment on their posting via blogger:

Erkan ERTEM

C.Yağmur ÖZTÜRK

Bülent YÜKSEL

Bertan ÖZTÜRK

Steve NEUFELD

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creative capacity in education system

In that video Ken Robinson criticize the current education system in the world. By emphasizing the main issues  about how kids should be educated to make them more creative and intelligence person, he claims the education system has to be prepared for the view of intelligence to have a chance to be wrong as students are learning. Moreover it should consist of the art subjects except from basic disciplines such as mathematics, science in order to improve the creative capacities of the students. I entirely agree with him. Our current education system is based on the main academic subjects and does not offer any opportunity to become an author, a painter, a dancer...etc. In other words, the students are being educated out of their creative capacities.

     I have a story related with this. When I was primary school, I was interesting in folk dancing.  After we were trained for one year in school, my folklore group attained a competition. We were the third as degree. It was great experience for me. However I couldn't last this talent because of the education system as it requires to study the main subjects for preparing the exams. 

    I want to reflect the significance of this issue by making reference another experience of mine. As Mr.Robinson said that ''By the time children get to be adults most kids have lost their creative capacity.'' When I was high school, we had a language lab to be able to learn English effectively. It was very useful for this aim with our English teacher. We learned writing, reading and even speaking in English. Unfortunately like the previous experience of mine we had to quit this training because of the education system again. 

     To be honest, I don't feel that I am now able to be creative as I was in high school.  As I am getting older, it becomes a bit harder to learn new things especially to be required having creative capacity.

      peole whom I commented:
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      erkan ertem

My comments

I commented on my classmates' posts. These are:
Beril
Bertan
Bülent
Carla
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Learning with media

I have chosen ''Learning with media'' as my research topic to indicate and to expose the benefits of multimedia  in learning foreign language or gaining any knowledge. I think learning is not simply a passive to response to instruction's ''delivery''. Rather, it is an active, constructive, cognitive and social progress. Therefore, learner should manage strategically available cognitive, physical, and social resources to create new knowledge by interacting with information in the environment and integrating it with information stored in memory. I also concern about this topic because my professional interest is closely with how to teach effectively. Furthermore, it involves my personal interests in terms of the way my daily life. That is, constant contact with my friends, searching for research, and using social network-sites are possible with any forms of multimedia. At the end of this research, I hope to learn what impacts of using media as an instructional tool in teaching foreign languages to young learners or adults. Beside this, I expect to improve my personally by using the media practically and to promote my professionally by learning many useful information related with my profession interest. I have encountered some problems while I have been searching my research topic via internet. One of these is I wasn't able to manage how to abbreviation. Another one is I couldn't download the information which I exactly need. Thus I had to spend much more time on downloading than writing.