This study focused on students’ use of Internet and
web 2.0 technologies for general and educational uses in terms of gender,
technologies ownership, Internet connection, Internet and computer skills
levels and years of use. 350 middle school students and two IT teachers were
participated to the study. Descriptive data collected through a survey that
designed by the researchers and based on these results, semi-structured
interviews were conducted with their teachers. The results indicated that
students with high confidence on computer and Internet use preferred to use
social networking, video sharing and game sites than blogs, wikis e-mail
services and cloud technologies like google drive for their general Internet
and computer use. They use these technologies for homework and practice the
previous content than communicating with their peers and teachers and also for
educational games and educational videos. The findings obtained through
teachers supports the data gathered from the students.
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Publication Date | September 1, 2014 |
Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 1 |