Examining the attitudes of class teacher candidates towards the educational use of social networks

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Burak Demir., Yücehan Yücesoy and Behçet Öznacar

Education with the developments experienced with today's technology; Communication, cooperation and active participation interact with Social Networks in aspects such as resource sharing, social networks have entered into education and training life in many aspects and sometimes participated in learning activities. In this research, it is aimed to include the attitudes of classroom teacher candidates regarding the use of social networks from an educational point of view. The participating group in the study consisted of 91 Class Teacher candidates who are continuing their education in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The screening model, which is one of the research quantitative research methods, was used. In the study, the data were collected with the Attitude Scale for Educational Use of Social Networks developed by Kesici (2019) and analyzed with SPSS 17 program, and as a result of the research, it was determined that the attitudes of teacher candidates for educational use of social networks were above average.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2021.4973.24943
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