MIDDLE AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ APPROACHES TO COMPUTER AND INTERNET

Year 2016, Volume: 4 , 508 - 518, 01.09.2016

Mustafa Serkan Abdüsselam Cemalettin Yıldız Resul Göl

Abstract

The aim of this
qualitative study is to determine middle and secondary school students’
approaches related to computers and internet. To achieve this aim a form
consisted of 8 open-ended questions was used. The implementation was carried
out to 322 middle school and 161 secondary school students in Trabzon and Giresun
cities on 2015-2016 school year. It was tried to determine understandings of
students related to computer and internet, their computer program and internet
sites preferences, the difficulties they have in computer and internet usage,
and their suggestions regarding effective usage of computer and internet. The
qualitative data obtained were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive
analysis methods. Data obtained showed that students saw computer mostly as a
tool for amusement and a tool which helped to lessons and they saw internet as
the fastest way to reach information and a communication way, they used office
programs in computers and preferred communication sites. Also, it was
determined that students had some problems in computer and internet usage
arising from themselves, others, computers, and internet. Thus, they thought
that there had to be in-service training courses related to these problems.
Some suggestions were given to students, families, and institutions to make
students benefit from computer and internet more effectively.

Keywords

Computer usage, internet usage, middle school students, secondary school students

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