Abstract:

In recent years, smartphone usage has grown regularly and become widely used in everyday life. The main aim of the emergence of the Internet is to facilitate easy, quick, safe access to information. Smartphones can perform not only features of ordinary mobile phones but also most operations that computers can conduct. Smartphones are indispensable part of both business life and everyday life. The aim of this study is to determine Hacettepe University Biology Teacher Candidates' smartphone addiction and their ideas for smartphone usage in education. The study sample consists of 91 students out of a total of 138 students attending the Department of Biology Education in Hacettepe University. With a view to measure smartphone Addictions, Smartphone Addiction Scale adopted into Turkish and validity and reliability of which was analyzed by Demirci et al (2014) was used. In addition, within the scope of the research, teacher candidates' views towards smartphone usage in education were detected.

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