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Information technologies offer many opportunities to people. However, they cause some ethical problems whose impacts may become more apparent in the coming years. Thus teachers, who play a key role in preparing the posterity to the future, are expected to be good digital citizens who have adequate information on digital ethics and are competent in the ethical use of information technologies. In this research, pre-service teachers’ ethical use levels of information technologies were examined in terms of some variables. The research was designed in a cross-sectional survey. The study group comprised a total of 221 pre-service teachers studying in faculties of education in different state universities. In the research, the “Personal Information Form” and “Information and Communication Technologies Ethics Scale” were used as data collection tools. As a result of data analysis, it was determined that the pre service teachers’ ethical use level of information technologies showed a statistically significant difference according to their gender, department, the skill of using the internet, state of having previously participated in a course or seminar regarding digital ethics, and their knowledge level of cyber-crimes and law enforcement. According to the research result, it was concluded that the pre-service teachers had a high ethical use level of information technologies.

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