The content suggestions of information technologies and software course teacher candidates for nonrigid curriculum / Bilişim teknolojileri ve yazılım dersi öğretmen adaylarının esnek programa yönelik içerik önerileri
The content suggestions of information technologies and software course teacher candidates for nonrigid curriculum / Bilişim teknolojileri ve yazılım dersi öğretmen adaylarının esnek programa yönelik içerik önerileri
Yazar: Orhan, Derya; Filiz, Ozan; Kurt, Adile Aşkım
Dergi: Eğitimde Kuram ve Uygulama, Vol. 10 No. 5, 2014
Anahtar kelimeler: Web 2.0, Information technologies and software course, Curriculum. ; Web 2.0, Bilişim Teknolojileri ve Yazılım dersi, Öğretim programı

At different periods, various changes are conducted in schools, which are affiliated by Ministry of National Education in the aspect of 21st century’s learner skills. One of these is change on curriculums. Information Technologies and Software (ITS) courses’ curriculum also changed on the point of becoming valid on 2012-2013 academic year and gained a nonrigid context. Considering that nonrigid curriculum gives only a framework for courses, the question that is about teacher’s content preferences comes to mind. In this study, teacher candidates’ content suggestions were examined. For this purpose, it was requested that ITS teacher candidates, who took the Special Teaching Method I course, which is at 5th semester of Anadolu University, Faculty of Education, Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department’s bachelor degree, designed a ITS course process regarding to nonrigid ITS curriculum. During designing the course related to learning field and performance indicators, they were supposed to determine aims and outputs, prepare contents, plan educational activities and design evaluation and assessment processes. Teacher candidates presented their designs and suggestions via blog, which is one of the current Web 2.0 technologies. In this study, teacher candidates suggested contents with 52 different topics totally. These topics are the codes of the study. The content analysis was conducted with these codes and a structure, which came from the teacher candidate’s views, was enounced.

At different periods, various changes are conducted in schools, which are affiliated by Ministry of National Education in the aspect of 21st century’s learner skills. One of these is change on curriculums. Information Technologies and Software (ITS) courses’ curriculum also changed on the point of becoming valid on 20122013 academic year and gained a nonrigid context. Considering that nonrigid curriculum gives only a framework for courses, the question that is about teacher’s content preferences comes to mind. In this study, teacher candidates’ content suggestions were examined. For this purpose, it was requested that ITS teacher candidates, who took the Special Teaching Method I course, which is at 5th semester of Anadolu University, Faculty of Education, Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department’s bachelor degree, designed a ITS course process regarding to nonrigid ITS curriculum. During designing the course related to learning field and performance indicators, they were supposed to determine aims and outputs, prepare contents, plan educational activities and design evaluation and assessment processes. Teacher candidates presented their designs and suggestions via blog, which is one of the current Web 2.0 technologies. In this study, teacher candidates suggested contents with 52 different topics totally. These topics are the codes of the study. The content analysis was conducted with these codes and a structure, which came from the teacher candidate’s views, was enounced.