Serpil Tuti SARI
Instructional Technology Professional & EdTech Consultant & Leader of Learning
Serpil Tuti-Sari, Apple Distinguished Educator, lives in Izmir. She is currently working at TED Izmir College. Previously, she worked at Providence College, Providence, RI, the USA at Instructional Technology Development Program as an instructional technologist. Serpil received her bachelor of science in Computer Education and Instructional Technology Teaching at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002. She received her master of science in Computer Education and Instructional Technology at the same university in 2005.
While she was a senior undergraduate student, she started to work as a part-time ICT teacher at Ihsan Dogramaci Foundation Bilkent Schools (K-8) and continued as full-time upon graduation. She also worked with teachers on integrating technology into education until 2011. Her leadership at Bilkent Schools resulted in three computer laboratories. Two of them were for teaching with interactive whiteboards, printer and including 25 computers. The other laboratory was for the library. It was designed for students’ research projects. After conducting the fully equipped computer laboratories, she offered computer classes to teachers for their integration of ICT into their lessons on three different levels. After two years’ time, all the teachers have had good ICT literacy and were able to create web pages for their courses.
In 2007, there was no clear ICT curriculum in the school, seeing this, she published 11 books by considering ICT skills in the world and student levels in Turkey. Three of them are for ICT teachers as guidebooks, on how to teach and how to use student books, including all lesson plans and activities. The other eight books are for 1-8 grade students including one-to-one computer activities. Her books are still in use in many schools in Turkey.
Starting in 2008, she started to work as an instructor at Bilkent University Graduate School of Education while she was still teaching Bilkent Schools. She offered many courses, some of which were computer teaching methods for computer teacher candidates, and educational technology and material development for English teacher candidates. She also supervised the teacher candidates in her classroom. Her positions at the Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University and Bilkent Schools provided a strong feedback loop and connect theory and practice for teacher candidates and students.
Starting in February 2011, she lived in Singapore for five months. She took this time examining the education system of Singapore and she made some school visits to see different examples and to see how diversity works in the school. The feedbacks were also very useful for her.
After coming back to Turkey from Singapore, she wanted to see the business side of educational technology, and she worked as an e-learning project manager at one of the top e-learning firm, Enocta, in Turkey. She had a chance to work with several companies in their e-learning projects. Also for the short term, she worked and played a key role at the Intel Turkey office as a pedagogical project manager for a nation-wide 1-to-1-tablet project (F@tih Project). She visited pilot schools and had interviewed principals, teachers, and students.
Afterward, from 2012 to 2015, she lived in the USA, where she was employed by Providence College. While continuing her position at Isikkent Egitim Campus as ICT Coordinator, she also worked as an Associate Consultant (e-learning) at Capacity Development of Employees and Employers via ICT (Bilge-İş) Project supported by European Union and Turkish Ministry of Labor. She is also a member of the IBDP community as an ITGS examiner.
She is the finalist of "Woman Leaders of Technology" as a "Successful Education Leader of the Year 2017", chosen by Microsoft & Kagider & Aydin Dogan Foundation. In 2019, she was chosen as one of the 19 Impactful Women in Turkey by Samsun Governor’s Office (Valilik) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ataturk’s arrival at Samsun to start the War of Independence.
Instructional Technology Professional & EdTech Consultant & Leader of Learning
Serpil Tuti-Sari, Apple Distinguished Educator, lives in Izmir. She is currently working at TED Izmir College. Previously, she worked at Providence College, Providence, RI, the USA at Instructional Technology Development Program as an instructional technologist. Serpil received her bachelor of science in Computer Education and Instructional Technology Teaching at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002. She received her master of science in Computer Education and Instructional Technology at the same university in 2005.
While she was a senior undergraduate student, she started to work as a part-time ICT teacher at Ihsan Dogramaci Foundation Bilkent Schools (K-8) and continued as full-time upon graduation. She also worked with teachers on integrating technology into education until 2011. Her leadership at Bilkent Schools resulted in three computer laboratories. Two of them were for teaching with interactive whiteboards, printer and including 25 computers. The other laboratory was for the library. It was designed for students’ research projects. After conducting the fully equipped computer laboratories, she offered computer classes to teachers for their integration of ICT into their lessons on three different levels. After two years’ time, all the teachers have had good ICT literacy and were able to create web pages for their courses.
In 2007, there was no clear ICT curriculum in the school, seeing this, she published 11 books by considering ICT skills in the world and student levels in Turkey. Three of them are for ICT teachers as guidebooks, on how to teach and how to use student books, including all lesson plans and activities. The other eight books are for 1-8 grade students including one-to-one computer activities. Her books are still in use in many schools in Turkey.
Starting in 2008, she started to work as an instructor at Bilkent University Graduate School of Education while she was still teaching Bilkent Schools. She offered many courses, some of which were computer teaching methods for computer teacher candidates, and educational technology and material development for English teacher candidates. She also supervised the teacher candidates in her classroom. Her positions at the Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University and Bilkent Schools provided a strong feedback loop and connect theory and practice for teacher candidates and students.
Starting in February 2011, she lived in Singapore for five months. She took this time examining the education system of Singapore and she made some school visits to see different examples and to see how diversity works in the school. The feedbacks were also very useful for her.
After coming back to Turkey from Singapore, she wanted to see the business side of educational technology, and she worked as an e-learning project manager at one of the top e-learning firm, Enocta, in Turkey. She had a chance to work with several companies in their e-learning projects. Also for the short term, she worked and played a key role at the Intel Turkey office as a pedagogical project manager for a nation-wide 1-to-1-tablet project (F@tih Project). She visited pilot schools and had interviewed principals, teachers, and students.
Afterward, from 2012 to 2015, she lived in the USA, where she was employed by Providence College. While continuing her position at Isikkent Egitim Campus as ICT Coordinator, she also worked as an Associate Consultant (e-learning) at Capacity Development of Employees and Employers via ICT (Bilge-İş) Project supported by European Union and Turkish Ministry of Labor. She is also a member of the IBDP community as an ITGS examiner.
She is the finalist of "Woman Leaders of Technology" as a "Successful Education Leader of the Year 2017", chosen by Microsoft & Kagider & Aydin Dogan Foundation. In 2019, she was chosen as one of the 19 Impactful Women in Turkey by Samsun Governor’s Office (Valilik) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ataturk’s arrival at Samsun to start the War of Independence.
