Hi, I'm Selin! | W2 Q0 | Forum

Hello everyone! It was great meeting you Chris and Madison! I’m also happy to take a course with Brittney again. I enjoyed our first class and hoping to have a great conversations with you on media and learning during the semester.

I’m from Ankara, Turkey. After starting to college, I’ve moved to Istanbul and lived there for 9 years. I’ve got my bachelor’s and master’s degree on science education from Bogazici University. During my studies in Turkey, I basically worked on how we can support pre-service science teachers to teach nature of science in their elementary science classrooms. I also worked as an informal science teacher in a science center for a year.

Now, I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education (CITE). I’m working with Joe Krajcik and our research is based on a project-based learning in elementary science classrooms. This is also the 2nd year in my research assistantship and it goes well so far. My research interests cover philosophy/nature of science, project-based learning in science education context, and the influence of identity and media resources (especially the channels of artificial intelligence) on learning.

Through this course, I hope I can have a broader and another perspective on learning. Last year, I learned about sociocultural learning theories and this semester including media and components on learning is exciting for me! Widen my perspective on learning and having a publication out of it quite motivating for me.