Because technology is developing each day and internet is getting easier to access, the types of communication among the people also have a constant alteration. Social media being one of the leads, especially the students undergoing an education frequently use these new communication styles. Studies in this context suggest that students do not use social media only to communicate with each other but also to exchange information, cooperate and share their class materials. In this regard, the perspectives of those who will be teaching students with special needs regarding social media are important to focus on. Therefore, this inquiry aims to identify the approaches of special education candidate teachers about social media courses through metaphors. The phenomenological research design was applied in this study. Participants were chosen from the candidate teachers who studied Special Education Teaching at Sakarya University Education Faculty in 2017 and 2018. The data was collected through the forms which had expressions as "because it is … social media is like … "and content analysis was used to examine this data. The forms were filled by 87 participants and the results show that they have developed 81 different metaphors. Based on the reasons for these metaphors researchers formed 6 categories: life colour, side effect, object, dependency, necessity and waste of time. It was also observed that the perspectives of special education candidate teachers about social media courses were typically positive.
The rapid development of technology nowadays has affected the use of tools in education. The perspectives and the usage of developing technologies of teachers who serves for preschool as the first step of child education are important. It is aimed to examine the attitudes of preschool teachers about tool usage in education with this research. The research was done with 81 preschool teachers working at preschools in Sakarya city. "Personal Information Form" developed by researcher and "Attitude Scale of Technology Tool Usage in Preschool Education" developed by Kol (2012) were used as data collection tools. The gathered data was analyzed with one-way analysis of variance, frequency, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. At the end of the study, it was determined that teachers' attitudes about technological tool usage in education were positive. The attitudes of teachers who were graduated from the department of preschool teacher education are higher than teachers who were graduated from the department of child development and education. Also teachers stated that they use mostly computer, projector and television in preschool education.
Bu araştırmada özel eğitim alanında çalışan öğretmenlerin Bireyselleştirilmiş Eğitim Programı (BEP) hazırlama süreciyle ilgili yaşanılan güçlüklerin çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelenmesi amaçlandı. Araştırma, nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden tarama modeli ile gerçekleştirildi. Araştırma, Türkiye'nin çeşitli illerinde görev yapan 292 katılımcı ile gerçekleştirildi. Araştırmada veri toplamak amacıyla Tike-Bafra ve Kargın ( 2009) tarafından geliştirilerek geçerlik güvenirlik çalışması yapılan "BEP Hazırlama Sürecinde Karşılaşılan Güçlükleri Belirleme Ölçeği" kullanıldı. Ölçekten elde edilen verilerin analizinde betimsel istatistiklerden aritmetik ortalama, yüzde ve frekans kullanıldı. Ayrıca çalışmanın alt amaçları doğrultusunda t-testi ve Anova testlerinden de faydalanıldı. Yapılan analizler sonucunda araştırmaya katılan öğretmenlerin öğrenci özellik ve ihtiyaçları ile ilgili işlevsel BEP hazırlama ile ilgili bilgi eksikliklerinin olduğu, öğretmenlerin hizmet süreleri, branş ve hizmet içi eğitim alma durumlarına göre BEP hazırlama güçlüklerinin farklılaşmadığı, öğretmenlerin BEP hazırlama üsrecinde ekip üyeleri ile bilgi ve sorumlulukların paylaşılması ile ilgili güçlük yaşadığı ifade edilebilir. Elde edilen bu sonuçlara gore öğretmenlerin işlevsel BEP hazırlama konusunda bilgi ve becerileni geliştirmeye dönük çalışmalara, BEP ekip üyelerinin görev ve sorumlulukları paylaşım ile ilgili çalışmalara yer verilebilir.
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