Abstract:

With the effect of the global epidemic, the use of technology has increased more, and digital technologies have been used in all fields of life. One of these fields is education. Particularly, the attitudes towards technology and technostress levels of teacher candidates in Geography education, which is the department that undertakes the role of educator of tomorrow and where technology is partially used less, have been investigated. The aim of this study is to determine the technostress levels and attitudes towards technology of geography teacher candidates. The research is in survey model and an online questionnaire form was applied to 148 teacher candidates studying at Necmettin Erbakan and Marmara University Faculty of Education, Department of Geography Education for the 2020-2021 academic years. “Determining Teachers' Technostress Levels” and “Teacher Candidates' Attitudes towards Technology” scales were used as data collection tools. The internal consistency coefficients obtained in this study were calculated as .86 and .83. As a result of the study, the attitudes towards technology and technostress levels of the geography teacher candidates were found to be medium level. The grade level and average daily internet usage time are important for technostress, but it does not make any difference according to the attitude towards technology. While gender is not an important variable for technostress, it is important in terms of attitude towards technology, men have more technology attitudes than women. There is a negative and low level relationship between attitude towards technology and technostress level. As a recommendation, It may also be suggested to provide geography teacher candidates with more applied training in order to gain an attitude towards technology and reduce their technostress’

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