Use of commercial games for educational purposes: Will today's teacher candidates use them in the future?

Date

2005-11-30

Author

Bakar, Aysegul
Inal, Yavuz
Çağıltay, Kürşat

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

68
views

0
downloads

URI

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84906974191&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84418

Collections

Unclassified, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

USE OF COMMERCIAL GAMES FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES: WILL TODAY'S TEACHER CANDIDATES USE THEM IN THE FUTURE? Bakar, Aysegul; Inal, Yavuz; Çağıltay, Kürşat (2005-11-30) The use of computer games in educational settings has been discussed by many educators. Herein, the opinions of teachers gain great importance because they are the ones who will use the games in classrooms. In this respect, this study was conducted to identify the opinions of prospective teachers who are the teachers of future on the use of games in classroom. After playing three commercial games (Quake, The Incredible Machine and Age of Empires), prospective teachers analyzed and evaluated them by focusing...
Use of graping calculators in high school mathematics-1: Samples of the students' views as a case study Ersoy, Yasar (2007-12-01) Background/Problem Statement: While the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in general computers and advanced calculators in particular has been increased in teaching mathematics in developed countries, the introduction of such developments into Turkish educational system are late and difficult. However, some private schools in Turkey use the same technology, and for developing an appropriate policy and having the benefits for Turkey the applications in these schools should be followed t...
Use of nontraditional rating sources in performance appraisals Sümer, Hayriye Canan; Bilgiç, Reyhan (2006-01-01) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a multi-source feedback system in a public sector organization and, more specifically, to examine performance appraisals provided by nontraditional rating sources (i.e., subordinates, peers, and sell) both psychometrically and on the basis of user-reactions. Intraclass correlations (i.e., inter-rater reliabilities) for subordinate evaluations were found to be relatively high (49). The pattern of correlations between ratings provided by different s...
Use of open educational resources how why and why not İslim, Ömer Faruk; Gürel Köybaşı, Nergis Ayşe; Çağıltay, Kürşat (2016-06-01) Open Educational Resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW) target barriers of education and learning by sharing knowledge for free to benefit self-learners, educators, and students. This study aims to investigate the use of OER both as a supplementary resource for a traditional course and as a resource for self-learners. First, the attitudes and perceptions of undergraduate students toward using a General Physics Laboratory OER and about how those resources contributed to the outcomes of the course were dete...
Utilization of social networking websites in education: a case of facebook Tınmaz, Hasan; Çağıltay, Kürşat; Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (2011) The aim of this study is to seek fundamental uses and gratifications of a social networking website, Facebook as a case, and the possible advantages and the challenges of utilization of Facebook for instructional activities. The research study encompassed four main steps; the analysis of uses & gratifications of Facebook, the analysis of Facebook utilization possibilities for instruction, the interviewing for two preceding steps, and the realization and analysis of a course on Facebook. In the study both qu...

Citation Formats

A. Bakar, Y. Inal, and K. Çağıltay, “Use of commercial games for educational purposes: Will today’s teacher candidates use them in the future?,” 2005, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84906974191&origin=inward.