The number of preventions taken for the Corona (COVID-19) virus, which has been on our agenda for a long time and will continue to occupy its place for a while, apparently, is increasing day by day. The Government decided to give a break for schools and encourage teachers to prepare online tutorials to continue education. We made this 8-step guide to help people involved in the field of education. We hope you will benefit from it.
1- Keep Calm
As a mother, a father, a spouse, an employee, do not blame yourself for the moments that you are concerned about all of the many roles you have and as a result of this concern you cannot keep your calm. But from now, on, when talking to your child, try to explain to him in simple language how this process works. Especially at the primary school level, children will tell each other in the form of disaster scenarios by exaggerating the news they heard from their families. For this reason, you can watch videos from real and reliable sources that he can understand. You can convince him that everything will have an end by showing similar events that happened before he was born in the past. This allows him to adapt more easily to the online education he will start.
2- Set the Appropriate Study Environment
Generally, when it comes to the working environment, there was a table, a chair, a book, notebooks and pencils. Of course, this changed with the changing educational model. Children have gotten used to using the tablets and computers they normally use, or by lying on their beds. But when it comes to online education, this use will reduce their focus levels considerably. Especially when they are bored or tired if they are lying down, their perceptions will shift to other distractors, and maybe they will fall asleep. In order to avoid these problems, the advice of the experts is that at least seventy per cent of online education is done at the desk in a quiet and calm environment by wearing headphones. In this way, high efficiency can be obtained from distance education.
3- Ensure Continuity
The most influential factor in continuing education in the school term was to take the students’ attendance at the beginning of the school. Even if the children were reluctant in the morning, they were somehow keeping their way to the school in order not to write. But, in online education, there is no such force to lift children out of bed in the morning. For this reason, it may be motivating behaviours that parents can do by setting sustainable goals for them and sitting in front of the computer with them for the first few days. It is not a very realistic idea to expect them to get up at school at seven in the morning, but it may be sustainable to set a time for them to wake up.
4- Get Feedback
The motivation we are talking about should actually start right after classes begin. Normally, especially primary school teachers, follow a method that educates their students not only by listening and reading but also by explaining that they understand and reinforce the information in this way. But it is difficult to do this in online education. With your help, this problem can also be overcome. Spend 20-30 minutes with your children at the end of each day to discuss what they learned in education that day. Ask them why they don’t understand that part well when they get stuck. In this way, the efficiency of the lessons will be significantly increased.
5- Create Them Space
Another nice atmosphere created by the school is the breaks where the children run like crazy and have fun. Unfortunately, breaks in online education are determined by the child’s own discipline. But here, too, there will be a never-ending break problem. The fact that the child who leaves the desk once can return to that desk requires severe discipline and responsibility. Generous breaks can be determined from the very beginning to solve this problem. For example, instead of giving a one-hour break, ti would be wiser to give two or three short breaks, not to cool the child from the tutorial.
6- Improve Computer Skills
It will be inevitable for technical failures to occur in training going on on the online platform, especially in the early stages. If you master the subject, you will take the computer or tablet and immediately try to improve the situation, and you will want to minimize the time it has lost. But remember that this process is also part of education. Allow him to discover when he needs to create a new document, download a file or use a program that he has not experienced before. This will positively affect his motor development and problem-solving skills.
7-Develop Their Note-Taking Skills
What we are most accustomed to at school is to put the information dictated by our teachers into our notebook. We do not have to decide what should be written and what should not be written. The teacher writes on the blackboard or reads it to us, and we write them down in notebooks. But in online education, children need to decide which parts are important and worth taking notes. The problem that can be encountered at this point is that children are bored towards the end of the lesson and only keep on looking at the screen instead of taking notes. At this point, motivation decreases because taking notes provides serious follow-up. As a parent, you can check the notebook at the end of the course until this habit is acquired. You can even ask him questions from his notes.
8- Help Them Use Time Effectively
The most effective way to manage your time is planning. Sitting with him the previous day and plan the next day’s online lessons is an efficient way of managing your time. Determining the breaks or even writing what you can do after the lesson step by step will make you and your child feel safe and calm. If you go outside after the lessons, we recommend you to spend time at the seaside, oxygen-filled places and enjoy your time. We hope you can get through this process in the most efficient way.
CAN TERLER | Karaisalı Atatürk Middle School English Teacher
Fear of school is defined as “Resisting school-age child not to go to school, not accepting friends and carrying out behaviors like crying” and according to research, 4 out of 5 children have problems on the first day of school.
Starting school for a child is the first step of entering the social environment outside of his family. According to his/her parents the main reason for the child’s fear of school is leaving him there and not picking him up again. Therefore, some children may develop school phobia. In fact, what is feared is not only the school, but the fear of losing the child’s trust, control, nutrition, approval, protection.
In these children, which we frequently encounter in schools, movements such as loss of interest and energy, irritability, introversion, crying without reason, complaints of headache and abdominal pain can be observed.
What can be done to children who fear this school to overcome this fear?
Children should be given realistic information about the school so that they do not have negative feelings towards the school. Before starting school, the mother can encourage the child to make different friendships. In addition, other family members can share their school experiences with the child.
Family members should be in a common attitude towards going to school and the child should not be allowed not to go to school without any exceptional situation.
It should be emphasized that every mother and father have their own concerns for their children, these concerns will pass over time and what they learn at school is also important to them.
At home, the dependence of the child on the parents should be tried to be reduced, the activitiy he / she finds on his own should be supported, and the toys and games he / she can play alone should be limited.
During this period, their teachers should tell the child that he should come to school and cares about his learning. It should not be forgotten that being unable to do what is taught will cause anxiety for the child and teachers should not be worried about teaching at first. It should be remembered that strict attitude increases problems.
In addition, as much as parents, teachers have a great responsibility during the first period of school. In the first days, instead of starting classes, the school should be introduced. What kind of benefits the school will provide to children should be explained with the cartoons, small plays and theatrical performances that the child will love. In these activities, it should be ensured that children feel responsible for school by assigning duties and taking responsibility.
If the child is afraid or he cried, the reasons for this should be asked in a soft style. Certainly, a sarcastic, dismissive and comparative attitude should not be taken. The child should be told in an appropriate language that the school is not a place to be afraid of. He should be smiling, not glum.
The first days of the school, which has a very important place in the lives of children is needed great crise management skills. In order to overcome this fear of the child in the lightest way, the school should cooperate and work together in cooperation with the family.
TAHA MUTLU | Atabey 75. Yıl Middle School Science and Technology Teacher
Children in school age are avoiding doing homework as much as possible. Doing homework becomes challenging for families as well as children. While the children who come home after an intense history want to evaluate their time with activities such as resting and playing, homework is waiting for them to be done. They are also overwhelmed by the fact that parents constantly say “do your homework”
WHY OUR CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE DONE HOMEWORKS MUST BE EXPLAINED
The main purpose of the homeworks is to enable students to spend their time outside the school by acquiring knowledge, and to fulfill their duties independently of parents or another individual by gaining responsibility and order.
When our children return from school, they should not be asked to start doing homework right away. First, a work program for daily activities should be prepared and according to this plan, the rest should be allocated when they return home.
Teachers should also take care that the assignments they give are really useful for the child, worth the time they allocate, refer them to research, are not too long, that children can add something to themselves and lead to creativity. Otherwise, the child can comment, “I already know this, what is the use to me.”
SORUMLULUK BİLİNCİ İLE DERS ÇALIŞMAYI SEVDİREBİLMEK
Children should be given the opportunity and supported to do their jobs in order to develop their skills and create a sense of responsibility. Our children should be given duties, and should be given the opportunity to do things right or wrong. Even if it is wrong, that child should do that task so that the awareness of responsibility develops.
The most difficult part of the students is the fact that they do not do their homework of the lesson they love and do not want to do their homework. Homework that is difficult for him can be divided into sections to make it easier to do. As a result, by giving awards, the child can be reinforced in doing homework.
Continuous intervention in children while doing homework causes them to be unable to find solutions when they are left on their own. For this reason, the assistance to be provided to the child should be measured.
And perhaps most importantly, don’t be on TV while your child is doing homework. While he is doing homework, read the book. Spend a certain time of the day on it and let the child see that you are reading a book. If you have decided, continue to practice without stepping back consistently.
Not so 20-30 years ago, if you were told to make video calls with your mobile phone in a short period of time, you probably would have been told by someone who is a dreamer. The interesting thing is that; We did not have much expectation for new technological developments recently, but today, when a new model of a known mobile phone is launched, most of us are in for a shocking technological development. This is also an important indicator of the magnitude of the pace of progress in technology. And many of us can’t even be surprised when there’s really a significant technological advance. If the teleportation happens, we’re almost able to say that if a friend tries, I’ll try. As a result of such technological developments, it is obvious that many of the occupations that are being carried out today will lose their validity in the future.
For example, I recently caught the attention of a letter affixed to the glass of a tailor shop: Ironing with a robot ”. The tragicomic side of the job is the fact that these robots, which are currently ironing only in the tailoring industry, will make tailors do their job in the future by doing other tasks. Of course, this is not the case only for tailors. Besides tailor robots will replace people in most occupational groups. Even today, robots have started to take the place of people in some areas. In China, for example, only robots are now in production. Again, a robot in China will serve as an announcer on TV announced. Or you may have heard that unmanned taxis will slowly begin to operate in the UK. In addition, projects such as unmanned flying cars and unmanned passenger planes will be implemented after a while. In addition, there are hospitals where only surgical robots can be performed. In the future, all medical support services can be performed by robots with surgical interventions. Together with the occupational groups mentioned above, most of the robots are likely to take away their occupation from people in the occupational group. Because the cost of labor and success rates in that job will involuntarily enable robots to replace people.
Which professions will continue to be valid despite technology?
The main issue that needs to be considered is not which professions robots will take place in the future, but which professions will continue to be valid despite technological advances. For example, there are painter robots that have the ability to make unique paintings that require a high level of creativity. You’ve also heard the robots composing. Who can claim that robots that can do even creative activities such as painting and composition today cannot develop their own software in the future. Perhaps our main problem in the future will be not how the robots do or fail to do it, but how to protect ourselves from the robots. Especially when we think about the possibility of serious competition between humans and robots in the future. One of the important professions that does not exist today and that will exist in the future may be robot safety expertise, which includes skills such as software development, which aims to ensure our safety against robots. From this point of view, it will not be surprising that the human labor force, which is active in production and service sectors, will concentrate on security in the future.
The living conditions of plants and animals will also be affected…
The effects of technological development will not be limited to humans. The vegetable and animal products we consume today can be replaced by artificial products in the future. Of course, there are many parameters. Conditions such as human population and environmental factors are very important. However, it can be said that technological development affects people and the living conditions of plants and animals.
In summary, considering the differences between our recent past and present technological conditions, we can have very different conditions than today’s living conditions even in the near future. When we consider the philosophical aspect of the work, the following question may come to our mind: As humanity, are we obliged to this technological development? We all know that even though there are communities like the Amishler who reject technology, there is no practical return of this technological development worldwide. We hope that the positive results of this development will exceed our expectations and that the possible negative results can be minimized.
Activities in which children participate both in terms of their physical and mental development are of great importance. Arts, science, sports or nature activities improve children’s perspectives as well as their self-confidence.
Science and nature activities help children to better understand the environment they live in; develops analytical thinking, problem solving and coping skills. Science and nature activities are also important in developing children’s creativity.
1. Learning through experimentation:
Engaging in science and nature activities allows children to learn through hands-on experimentation, fostering scientific thinking techniques.
2. Improved observation skills:
Children develop their ability to observe, analyze, and synthesize information, honing their powers of observation.
3. Enhanced academic success:
Science and nature activities not only teach correct thinking methods but also positively impact children’s performance in school lessons.
4. Stimulated curiosity:
These activities fuel children’s curiosity, encouraging them to ask questions and fostering a thirst for learning.
5. Improved eye-hand coordination:
Children develop better eye and hand coordination as they participate in experiments and hands-on tasks.
6. Motor skills development:
For children aged 0-8, participating in nature activities and science workshops aids in the development of motor skills.
7. Social skill enhancement:
Children interacting with peers during these activities have the opportunity to develop their social skills and teamwork abilities.
8. Boosted self-confidence:
Involvement in culture, art, science, nature, or sports activities enables children to discover their talents, promoting self-confidence.
9. Creative problem-solving:
Children exposed to diverse subjects learn to generate ideas and approach problems from different perspectives.
In our age of technology, children start to benefit from technology at a younger age. Many parents are surprised by the tendency of children to this technology, which seems to be innate, and question how true it is. However, technology provides benefit to everyone as long as it is used in dose. The important thing is; to determine how much time children spend with technology in a day and to keep this period within the recommended limits. Let’s take a look at the benefits of technology to children.
Thanks to the Internet, we can access the information we want at any time from our computers, tablets or phones. Whatever we want to learn or want to pass on to people, we can reach to the farthest point we can reach and get rid of the boundaries of time-space concepts. We’re going to him without waiting for the information to come. The benefit of our children is of great importance for their rapid learning.
2- Developing basic skills
You have also noticed that the age of literacy in children has decreased. The computer and even the educational programs on television have a great effect on this. Good educational software helps children develop basic skills. In addition to basic skills; technology has an impact on their ability to develop creative thinking and cause-effect relationships. For example, have you ever noticed how children playing internet games improve their foreign language? If you think that children of the time are geniuses, you have to accept that technology has a big effect on this.
3- Socializing
Of course, it cannot be denied that children who play games for long hours, watch television or deal with their phones may have socializing problems. But children who use technology for a limited time can turn it into a socializing tool. For example; certain games they play continuously may have a common interest in a social environment and thus make friends. Likewise, people can get to know people in different languages and cultures over the internet, learn a new language and recognize a new culture.
4- Developing special skills
Technology is becoming more and more unimaginable. Now we can use a tablet as a canvas to paint, we can produce a large orchestra from a computer to produce music. Why shouldn’t our children benefit from these blessings? Especially in the tablets and phones we use, there are many applications for children to improve their interests. With these applications, your children can discover their own talents. Moreover, the portableness of these tools can help to limit the child’s creativity.
If we learn how to use it in maximum efficiency instead of living in fear and escape from technology in such an age, we can make life much easier for both ourselves and our children. If we do the controls we need to do for them and make them understand the limits of using technology, we will achieve this high level of efficiency.
5- Encouraging a love for learning
Technology opens up a world of possibilities for interactive and engaging learning experiences. Educational apps, websites, and digital resources provide children with fun ways to explore various subjects, sparking their curiosity and encouraging a love for learning. Through interactive quizzes, games, and multimedia presentations, children can grasp complex concepts more easily. Moreover, technology allows for personalized learning, adapting to each child’s pace and style of learning. This tailored approach helps children build confidence in their abilities and fosters a positive attitude towards education.
6- Improving communication skills
Technology enables children to connect with family members, friends, and peers through various communication platforms like video calls, messaging apps, and social media. These interactions not only help in maintaining relationships over distances but also enhance communication skills. Through written communication in messages or emails, children learn proper grammar and spelling. Video calls and online discussions improve their ability to express thoughts and ideas clearly and confidently. As communication is a vital life skill, honing it through technology can prove invaluable in a digitally-driven world.
7- Cultivating digital literacy
Growing up in a technology-dominated era, it’s crucial for children to become digitally literate. By exposing them to technology from an early age, they become familiar with digital devices and software, developing the ability to navigate through various interfaces effortlessly. Digital literacy encompasses skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and online safety. Teaching children how to discern reliable information from misinformation on the internet empowers them to be responsible and savvy digital citizens.
8- Access to diverse learning resources
Traditional educational resources can sometimes be limited, especially in schools with budget constraints. However, technology offers access to a vast array of educational content, including e-books, online courses, and virtual simulations. This availability of diverse learning resources ensures that children have access to a broad range of information and knowledge, empowering them to explore their interests beyond the confines of traditional classroom materials.
9- Fostering creativity and imagination
Technology can serve as a powerful tool for unleashing a child’s creativity and imagination. With animation software, video editing tools, and digital art applications, children can express themselves artistically and bring their ideas to life. Online platforms for storytelling and creative writing can also ignite a passion for literature and narrative creation. By providing children with the means to explore their creative sides, technology contributes to their holistic development.
10- Building adaptability and technological skills for the future
In a world where technology continues to evolve rapidly, being adaptable and technologically proficient is vital for future success. Introducing children to technology at an early age helps them become comfortable with innovation and change. They learn to adapt to new technologies and acquire essential technical skills that will likely be indispensable in their personal and professional lives.
In conclusion, technology can be a powerful ally in children’s development when used thoughtfully and within recommended limits. Quick access to information, skill development, socialization, creativity, and digital literacy are just a few of the many benefits technology offers. By embracing technology as a tool for learning and growth, parents and educators can prepare children for a future that demands technological literacy and adaptability. Finding a balance between screen time and other activities is crucial to maximize the positive impact of technology on children’s lives. Through guidance and supervision, we can harness the potential of technology to nurture well-rounded, knowledgeable, and confident individuals ready to thrive in the digital age.
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