Dear All,Today I wanted to share my ICT background and my thoughts concerning ICT with you. The reason of this was my visit to www.globalmorality.com portal this morning. I saw some comments about the technology use and I wanted to write this. I hope you enjoy it.
A teacher is the one who should be running before the other citizens of the nation to update himself/herself to be a good resource and guide for his/her students. This has always been my motto while training my students. As a teacher trainer, I have been in this business for 34 years. In 1974-while I was a student at Izmir Teachers' Training College, one of my instructors had given me an assignment about "Using video in teaching". TV was a very new tool for us and video, naturaly, had sounded so awkward to me. I was watching black-white TV programs since 1973 it was a very shocking homework for me. I had felt hopeless for weeks and after tiring efforts I had found a picture of video in the Turkish-American library and had prepared a very simple one and I had handed it to my dearest instructor; Prof.Dr. Ömer Demircan. He has been always a pioneer in his field and he still is. My first experience with video was in 1986 after that. My video teacher, Prof. Susan Stempleski within the Full Bright program, taught us in detail how to use it effectively while teaching a foreign language.
Then, during my Ph.D. Classes in Gaziantep I had the opportunity of having a "Computers & Technology" course from a Russian IT professor. He was an excellent teacher and as a result of his motivation, I had dared to write my own dissertation on my new toy_Olivetti. It was so simple but much more better than a typewriter. I could the chance of deleting and rewriting the errors. Forthermore, I was not wasting paper. It took my looong nights to finalize my dissertation but it was my product. :)
Then, in 1995 I decided to participate my first international conference_ the 6th IFIP World Congress at Birmingham, UK. My paper had got the approval by the organizing committee to be presented. Its title was: "Reducing Teacher Resistance to Innovations". I know it is still a problematic issue in many places. After that, in 2001 I started to have web pages to share my thoughts with the world and I started online projects with NYDT, from South Africa.
2004 was the starting year of my ICT Seagulls Project. Through it, I am publicising SQCs as well. The same year was a landmark for me; I started collaborating with Microsoft Turkey and until the end of 2008, as one of their advisors I localized the PIL Innovative Teachers Program to Turkish schools. I trained 200 teachers and coaches to reduce the teacher resistance to change. My efforts still go on in Boğaziçi University for 6 terms with the "Innovative Teaching" Course to senior students of the Faculty of Education. Feedback I obtain from my ex-students, proves the importance of that course not only to the students but to the administrators of the Faculty. My e-book on this journey is being shared by the Ministry of National Education, Educational Technologies Department on the address of: www.yenilikciogretmenler.meb.gov.tr
Hayal Koksal (Ph.D.)
President, Peace & Quality Education Center
President, Association for Continuous Improvement (Sü Ge Der)
Director General (Turkey), WCTQEE
Director, Turkish Center for Schools of Quality
Instructor, Bogazici University
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