Abstract:

The main aim of this research is to determine the opinions of the pre-service teachers studying in the final year of an education faculty regarding the educational use of information technology (IT) in their own teaching in the future. The research is designed as a phenomology. Maximum variation sampling was chosen to obtain more detailed information from the participants. The research was conducted with 11 pre-service teachers studying in final year at an education faculty during the 2016-2017 academic year. The qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interview form and analyzed with content analysis method. As a result of the analysis, the findings are grouped under these headings: definitions for integration of IT into teaching, knowledge of IT technologies, competencies related to IT use, contribution of IT to the teaching, negative aspects of IT use and suggestions for undergraduate education. In addition, it was found that pre-service teachers had positive views about the usage of information technologies in teaching.

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