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The goal of the study is to reveal the effect of activity-based media education on students' critical media literacy levels. A case study with fifth grade students was used in the study. A total of 18 students from a public school were participants. The data was gathered by a rubric and semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed that students have media literacy ability. Based on the result of the study, it can be suggested that either an independent media literacy course or a media literacy education integrated into other courses should be provided from the first grade. Furthermore, because of the fact that media literacy is closely related to critical thinking, teaching methods and activities in which students can gain critical questioning and thinking skills should be preferred.

This study examined the potential effects of artificial intelligence on Turkish education. A qualitative research approach was employed by posing an open-ended question to academics in order to attain this objective thanks to built-in capabilities for conducting complicated computer operations, cloud-based services, and conciliatory accession for agile network connections. This study emphasizes that Turkey is highly fragmented and consists of various business organizations at both the municipal and regional levels. The two main policy documents produced by the Turkish government suggest that colleges play a strong role in national and regional Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies for workforce growth, with substantial consequences for AI adoption strategies. These documents include information on three well-known educational entities: The new oriental workgroups, recurrent neural networks, and classroom clustering. Significant aspects of Turkey’s educational AI growth include a strong private education industry and a growing international interest. The investigation results revealed a decline in the level of understanding regarding the methods of using artificial intelligence, indicating the necessity for additional awareness-raising in Turkey.

The aim of this study is to develop a measurement tool to make an assessment of students' perceptions and opinions about citizenship. This scale was applied to 250 high school students (state school) located in the district of Sultangazi, İstanbul. After confirmatory and explanatory factor analysis, it is seen that the scale consists of 10 items and 2 factors. The scale's alpha coefficient value is .71. On the other hand, it can be said that there is statistically significant correlation among the factors. As a conclusion, scale can be used as a valid and reliable instrument in evaluating teachers' classroom practices while teaching citizenship.

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Human rights and democracy education is a form of education which includes furnishing individuals with social behaviors, and learning through experience should be considered as the grounds in order for it to make permanent changes and allow students to internalize human rights and democracy manners. Thus, the problem statement of the research question is as follows; "What are pre-service teachers' perceptions, opinions and interpretations on the effectiveness of using drama about human rights and democracy education in training Social Sciences pre-service teachers?" The study group of the action research consists of 69 junior students who were studying in the Department of Social Sciences Teaching during 2012-2013 academic year and who were taking Human Rights and Democracy course. Data for the study were gathered through open-ended question forms, semi-structured interviews and video recordings taken during drama activities. The data were analyzed by using content analysis and descriptive analysis methods. It was observed that human rights and democracy education could turn into social behaviors and the setting required for enabling awareness could be provided through drama activities.