The opening programme of the project titled ‘Developing a Computational Thinking and Coding Skills Training Model Based on the Understanding by Design Approach in Preschool’, submitted to TÜBİTAK under the leadership of Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) Faculty of Education Preschool Education Division faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şermin Metin and accepted and supported, was held at Law Amphitheatre with strong attendance.
The programme was attended by Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Mehmet Lütfi Yola, Dean of the Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Şener Büyüköztürk, instructors and students.
Speaking at the opening of the programme, Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Mehmet Lütfi Yola said: “On behalf of our Rector and the Board of Trustees, I thank our esteemed colleague Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şermin Metin, the project leader, and her team for bringing this TÜBİTAK project on such an important subject to our university. I hope that we will witness the future successes of the project together.”
WE AIM TO BRING THE CHILDREN OF THE 21ST CENTURY TO OUR SOCIETY
Project leader Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şermin Metin said: “The aim of the project is to bring to our society the new productive children of the 21st Century, who have design, computational thinking and coding skills and will contribute to the world and to our own society. This model, aimed at developing design, computational thinking and coding skills in children, consists of three stages: ‘Scales, Development of the Draft Model and Testing the Model’. In our project, which will be developed in cooperation between researchers and teachers, theory and practice will be tested through a cyclical process and then put into practice. If errors are found in the process, they will be corrected and the applications repeated. In the model, an eclectic approach will be applied, taking the learning environment and classroom climate into account.”
The advisory team of the project in which the model named TATBİK will be implemented consists of Prof. Dr. Şener Büyüköztürk, Prof. Dr. Yaşar Özbay and Prof. Dr. Erdinç Çakınoğlu, while the research group of the project includes Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kaan Batı, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Başaran, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Akbaş, Asst. Prof. Dr. Esra Akgül and Asst. Prof. Dr. Özge Kelleci Alkan. In addition, 12 teachers and 4 scholarship holders will contribute to the project.
