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The purpose of this research is to reveal teachers’ opinions about using social media. This research has been conducted by a phenomenological research design. The data has been collected by semi-structured interview technique. After analyzing the collected data, the participants’ perceptions about social media are; communication, sharing, personal-information, virtual-information, vehicle, danger, socialization, world, time-machine, and thief. Furthermore, teachers determine the relationship between social media and education as no contribution, excellent resource, educational based, activity, useful, powerful relationships-sociality, shyness, source of an idea, and home-school. Teachers offer some recommendations to use social media more effectively: education sharing should be increased, education pages and groups should be more followed, social media should be used for the aim of communication and information sharing, and current studies and developments should be followed. Consequently, the researchers have concluded that teachers’ perceptions, relationships with social media, and usage levels vary.

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