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Abstract

This qualitative study aims to investigate which levels of reflective thinking are used by the prospective Information Technologies teachers while they are writing their blog postings. Twenty undergraduate students who took the “Teaching Practicum” course from Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department in the Spring Semester, 2010- 2011 at Faculty of Education at Uludağ University participated in the study. Prospective teachers kept blog postings each week throughout a whole semester for their activity reports of Teaching Practicum course. The qualitative analysis of blog postings which had shown that prospective teachers wrote down their impressions about the teachers and other prospective teachers in the schools they went, at mostly understanding level while they wrote down their own activities at mostly reflection or critical reflection level..

Keywords

• Blog, teaching practicum, reflective thinking, prospective Information Technologies teacher.

Prospective Information Technologies Teachers' Reflective Thinking Levels in Their Blogs / "Bilişim Teknolojileri Öğretmen Adaylarının Bloglarında Kullandıkları Yansıtıcı Düşünme Düzeyleri"

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı öğretmen adaylarının bloglarında hangi yansıtıcı düşünme seviyelerini kullandığı belirlemektir. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinin kullanıldığı araştırmaya  2010-2011 eğitim öğretim yılında Uludağ Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi Bölümünde okuyan ve Öğretmenlik Uygulaması dersine kayıtlı 20 öğretmen adayı katılmıştır. Öğretmen adayları, Öğretmenlik Uygulaması dersi etkinlik raporları için bir dönem boyunca her hafta blog yazmışlardır. Yazılan bloglar betimsel analiz yoluyla çözümlenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının gittikleri okullarda uygulama öğretmenlerinin ya da diğer öğretmen adayları hakkında izlenimlerini aktardıkları bloglarında daha çok anlama boyutunda yazılar yazdıkları, kendi etkinlikleri hakkında yazdıkları bloglarda ise yansıtma ve eleştirel yansıtma boyutunda yazılar yazdıkları belirlenmiştir.

Keywords

• Blog, öğretmenlik uygulaması, yansıtıcı düşünme, Bilişim Teknoojileri öğretmen adayı.

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