After reviewing the literature...

I have read lots of papers and book chapters on reflective practice, pre-service teacher education, and computer-based scaffolds. Today, we are supposed to bring our initial ideas about our design to the class. I am planning to design a portal for pre-service teachers. I just drew a storyboard of it. For now, it is a paper-based prototype!

My New Discovery :)

Here is my new discovery. It is book thumb holder. It is quite handy and practical. It works especially in crowded public transportation vehicles. It helped me a lot when I was in Istanbul, trying to read my book in the metro.

Hello again after a long time :)

I went back to Turkey in the winter break and came back with a fresh mind :) I had a chance to elaborate my research interests, and I have noticed that I am more interested in pre-service teacher education rather than in-service teacher education. More specifically, how to scaffold pre-service teachers to be reflective practitioners in a computer-based learning environment would be my focal point and main research question.

Nowadays, I am reading the related literature. I have learnt that online journals, e-portfolios, web templates, and visual scaffolds have been used to enhance both pre-service and in-service teachers' reflective thinking.

I would like to conduct a design-based study, and create my own computer-based environment that scaffolds pre-service teachers in the process of reflective thinking.

I haven't specified my subject matter area, yet. But most probably it will be in STEM. For now, it is better for me to proceed with boarder questions. During the literature review and prototyping, I hope I will narrow them down.