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Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2007 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 21 | Page No.: 3226-3233
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.3226.3233
How Social Science and Geography Teachers Perceive Educational Technologies that have Been Integrated in Educational Program
Ali Ozel

Abstract: One of the major universal aims of educational systems is to raise human power suitable for the requirements of information society, one of the main steps of which is to configure the educational programs in accordance with universal interaction. The prerequisite of this step is to use the technology in the educational environment urgently and efficiently because the student-centered learning approach that goes along with educational programs relies on the individual’s establishing a relationship between the learning environment and his learning. This relationship can foster learning when established through the help of educational technologies. Teachers bear important roles in enabling the technology and educational program due to achieve the best learning. The aim of this study is to display the opinions of teachers about educational technologies that have become compulsory to be used in accordance with educational programs and their level of being used. In this study, the scanner model was used. It was stated in a study carried out on 112 social science and geography teachers working at elementary and secondary schools in the 2006-2007 Education Year that teachers didn’t use educational technologies in their activities very often; that they self-taught themselves how to use these technologies and that they found themselves partially adequate.

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Ali Ozel , 2007. How Social Science and Geography Teachers Perceive Educational Technologies that have Been Integrated in Educational Program. Journal of Applied Sciences, 7: 3226-3233.

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