LEGO Education Teacher Conference: Towards the Future of Education with Innovative Teachers
The event named "LEGO Education Teacher Conference: Towards the Future of Education with Innovative Teachers" was organized by the Innovation and Educational Technologies General Directorate, in cooperation with MEB ETKİM, LEGO Education, Teknokta and METU BİLTEMM Center. The conference, held on October 16, 2023, aimed to support innovative approaches in education and improve the digital skills of teachers. During the one-day event, workshops were held in areas such as STEM education and robotic-coding applications in education in simultaneously held workshops.
At the event, Dr. Bilgehan Özbaylanlı (Head of MEB YEĞİTEK R&D and Ecosystem Department) and Sümeyye Hatice Eral (Head of MEB YEĞİTEK Digital Skills Department), Fatma Bezek (Founder of Teknokta Education), Villy Outzen (LEGO Education Director), Prof. Dr. Belma Tuğrul (Faculty Member at Istanbul Aydın University) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Göknur Kaplan (Director of METU BİLTEMM Center) made speeches. 120 teachers (primary school teaching, information technologies, technology and design, mathematics and science) from Ankara attended the conference.