Open AccessPreschool teachers' views on usage of information techonologies
Author(s) -
Aylin Gök,
Selahattin Turan,
Nidan Oyman
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
eğitim ve öğretim/eğitim ve öğretim
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2148-239X
pISSN - 2146-0655
DOI - 10.14527/c1s3m8
Subject(s) - data collection , the internet , sample (material) , focus group , psychology , control (management) , information technology , field (mathematics) , mathematics education , computer science , multimedia , medical education , world wide web , sociology , medicine , mathematics , social science , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , anthropology , pure mathematics , operating system
This study aimed at investigating effects of preschool teachers' usage of information technologies on student's level of interest and attention. The sample of the study was composed by the 10 pre-school teachers living in Istanbul and the data collection instrument was the 'focus group method'. Group meetings have been applied in three sessions with the same group members in 2010. Data assessment was realized in two sessions as data casting and content analysis. In this study, in the field of information technology at pre-schools computer, internet and smart board usage rates was approached. The most important finding of this study is that when the pre-school teachers use the information technologies under control and in enough time, this reflects the opinions of the students' attention and interest.