My Experiences With Educational Technologies

Probably all of us have been in situations that made us visit the wiki pages to get information for our daily needs or responsibilities like completing homework. Even with that huge use of wikis, surely none of us had thoughts about how they have been written. They were always there for us to read. Today, I and my friend Toprak experienced the other side, the enormous community working for us and serving our needs. Planning, writing, and reviewing were the processes we followed for writing our wiki page. It was enjoyable to follow this course with my friend, of course, especially deciding on the addition of media assets for our wiki was a fun experience. Although it was enjoyable, the idea of someone going to read our page to get information to decide whether to watch the film or not was serious, I think. Watching one special film can change lives after all. The experience we had gave us the hint about what wiki writers engage for transferring information in the digital environment. A...

Before the examination of the memes and the humor culture with the learning environment formed around them, we should look into what made all of that possible: technology, the Internet, and sharing information part of it, specifically.  After we shared our experiences and learned from each other by using web 1.0, web 2.0 and its creativity tools led to an era of countless innovative ideas about all things surrounding us. One of them, of course, was about education. As a young teacher candidate, I was born into this digital world of exploding new innovations. My students will experience the same fate as well. However, the complexity and impact it has on them definitely will be more than me and my generation had. Maybe they will be familiar with artificial intelligence-created information, or they will communicate with machines in their daily lives. We cannot predict tomorrow that easily, but we have to prepare for our profession's adjustment to the future. Maybe piece by piece, but ...

Welcome to my blog about the examination of the internet meme culture and its impacts on English learners. As a young teacher candidate for ELT, I am going to make this journey as fun as possible. There is an example of what is about to come :