Determining the Level of Using Smartphone in Education: Giresun Education Faculty Sample

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 18 - 25, 01.06.2016

Pınar Öztürk Geniş Aykut Emre Bozdoğan Zehra Aktaş

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the views of the preservice science teacher about the use of smartphone in education. The study group consists of 55 preservice teachers at Science Teaching Department of Giresun University Education Faculty. Questionnaire which was developed by researchers was used in this research. The questionnaire consists of two parts including 3 open-ended, 3 close-ended questions. Two expert’s opinion was taken for the content validity of questionnaire and the final version of the questionnaire was given after the necessary corrections. The results of the study showed that preservice science teachers find adequate themselves the use of other tools such as computer, tablet, smartphone excluding interactive whiteboard. This study indicates that at the point of use of technological tools for teaching in the classroom, male preservice teachers find themselves more adequate than female preservice teachers. According to the findings, preferred uppermost application in smartphones was social networking sites (facebook, twitter, instagram etc.)  by preserve science teachers. It was observed that Google was the main internet search engine. In addition to this, it was seen that magazines, newspapers, translation, play store also were commonly used. As a result of study, it was obtain that more than three-quarters of preservice teacher were used smartphones in many lectures for instructional purposes. In the study, it was suggest that the most preferred lectures by preservice teachers were content knowledge and content knowledge education to use smartphones. As a result, it is believed that this study will be beneficial for next studies about usability of smartphones in education. 

Keywords

smartphones, preservice teacher, science education

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