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from the department of child development and education. Also teachers stated that they use mostly computer, projector and television in preschool education.
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ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 152 (2014) 143 – 148

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Examining preschool teachers’ attitudes about the usage of technological tools in education +DNNÕ%D÷FÕa *$]PL%D\UDPøOED\bg]OHP$VODQ%D÷FÕb a

Department of Computer Technology, Sakarya University, Vocational School of Kaynarca Seyfettin Selim, Sakarya 54650, Turkey b Department of Child Development, Sakarya University,Vocational School of Healt Services,Sakarya 54055, Turkey

Abstract The rapid development of technology nowadays has affected the use of tools in education. The perspectives and the usage of developing technologies of teachers who serves for preschool as the first step of child education are important. It is aimed to examine the attitudes of preschool teachers about tool usage in education with this research. The research was done with 81 preschool teachers working at preschools in Sakarya city. “Personal Information Form” developed by researcher and “Attitude Scale of Technology Tool Usage in Preschool Education” developed by Kol (2012) were used as data collection tools. The gathered data was analyzed with one-way analysis of variance, frequency, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. At the end of the study, it was determined that teachers’ attitudes about technological tool usage in education were positive. The attitudes of teachers who were graduated from the department of preschool teacher education are higher than teachers who were graduated from the department of child development and education. Also teachers stated that they use mostly computer, projector and television in preschool education. © Published by by Elsevier Elsevier Ltd. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license © 2014 2014 The The Authors. Authors. Published Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the ERPA Congress 2014. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the ERPA Congress 2014. Keywords:technology; tools; preschool teachers; education

1. Introduction Human both has changed and has been the actor of the variation phenomenon as the changer until nowadays. This change process was accelerated in the last century and now it has a vertiginous speed. In this regard, acquaintanceship with technology and its functional usage takes place in the components which supports the

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adaptation of change process. In parallel with the rate of change, it is going to be a necessity for the change of education. The first step of the change in case must be at preschool education level. The integration of both teachers and school environment are important depending on technological developments. Technology is the transformation of the application of scientific information into design production against its common usage of ability to use machines. This situation can be achieved by building a bridge between theoretical information and real life problems (Newby, 1996). From another point, it can be situated that technology is the application of scientific information to daily life and educational technology is the application of scientific LQIRUPDWLRQ WR HGXFDWLRQDO H[SHULHQFHV øúPDQ   (GXFDWLRQDO WHFKQRORJ\ LV DOO NLQGV RI VXSSRUW XWLOL]Hd to GHYHORS WKH OHDUQLQJ SURFHVV WKDQ WKH XVDJH RI WHFKQRORJLFDO GHYLFHV 'HPLUHO 6HIHUR÷OX DQG