Students’ Attitudes Towards Computers and Internet — Everyday Use and Possibility of Use in Geography Teaching

Abstract

Students' attitudes, Geography teaching, Teaching using computers, Internet in teaching.Beginning with the fact that education needs to be oriented towards students and their interests and bearing in mind that today's children get in touch with computers since their earliest childhood, contemporary education needs to recognize the necessity of including them in the teaching process. This work represents a research conducted with the aim of examining the students' attitudes of advantages of using computers and Internet in Geography teaching, as well as determining the extent of their use in Geography teaching in elementary schools. The data were collected using questionnaire constructed for the requirements of this research and the sample covered 273 students of final grades in 7 elementary schools in Vojvodina (The Republic of Serbia). The results showed that computers and Internet are very rarely used in Geography teaching and that this aspect of modernizing the education still has not found its place in the teaching process despite its numerous advantages.