Öğretim Teknolojileri ve Öğretmen Eğitimi Dergisi
Yazarlar: Erkan ÇALIŞKAN
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Anahtar Kelimeler:Pre-service teacher,Technology integration,Interactive board,Tablet PC,FATIH Project
Özet: Teaching environments and methods are very important for success of teaching activities. Changes on teaching / learning environments and methods affect learning success directly. With the developing technology, we have seen more support of technology at instructional activities. There are a lot of studies interested with environments and methods in the literature. Especially, some studies, which focus on effects of environments and methods, have contributed to the implementations. Technological developments and new trends in educational-instructional implementations require governments to initiate educational reforms. For this purpose, Turkey started supporting the “Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology” (FATIH) project. The general aims of FATIH Project are (1) equating opportunities in education, (2) supporting the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools such as interactive boards (IBs) and tablet PCs in the classrooms. The project started in November, 2010, after approval from the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) and the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications. The FATIH project was funded by the Ministry of Science; Industry and Technology; Ministry of Economy; Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Development; Undersecretaries of Treasury; and Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). This extensive and ongoing project has the following five main components: • supplying equipment and software substructure; • providing educational e-content and management of e-content; • promoting effective usage of the ICT in teaching programs; • offering in-service training of teachers; and • promoting conscious, reliable, manageable, and measurable ICT usage. In this study, pre-service teachers’ thoughts about environment, method, FATIH Project and using of interactive board and tablet PC for instructional purposes were examined. Convenient sampling was used to reach 24 pre-service teachers. Also, voluntary participation, academic success, and class level were used as criteria for sampling. The study was designed in survey model and data were gathered via interviews and analyzed with content analysis method in accordance with qualitative research design. According to the findings, pre-service teachers have knowledge about the project but they have some issues to use interactive boards and tablet PCs effectively. The pre-service teachers participating in the study defines environment and method correctly. Methods are more important for 8 of participants (33%), while 5 of them (21%) say that environment is more important for instruction. 11 of pre-service teachers (46%) believe that environments and methods have equal importance on success of instructional activities. Pre-service teachers defines FATIH Project as using of information and communication technologies (f=13, 54%) and changing of classroom forms (f=11, 46%). They emphasize that skills and habits are most important challenges. They specify that the project will improve students’ and teachers’ technology literacy. According to pre-service teachers, the most important points of using of IB and tablet PC are method and activities (f=11, 46%), content (f=10, 42%), active participation (f=8, 33%), and student control (f=4, 17%). Only 10 pre-service teachers (42%) have mentioned more appropriate teaching methods for using IBs and tablet PCs in classroom. At this point, more professional development such as in-service training for technology integration is needed. The results of this study also indicates that instructors should focus more on designing and using of e-course content in the instructional technology and material design courses at the undergraduate level.