**Section 8**

**Quality Assessment** 

440 Social Sciences and Cultural Studies – Issues of Language, Public Opinion, Education and Welfare

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**24** 

Şendil Can

*Turkey* 

*Muğla University, Faculty of Education* 

**The Effects of Environment and Family Factors** 

In our world, where information and technology is increasingly developing, it is undeniable fact that technology has great impact on education. The main goal of education is to equip individuals with required knowledge and show them how to use this knowledge. To do so, the traditional methods used seem to be inadequate. In this respect, there is a need to make

Every type of tool and equipment helping to reduce the interaction between the student and the subject that needs to be learned to the level where the student can understand it is in the scope of educational technologies. In the classroom wide-range of materials ranging from teacher, chalk and blackboard to educational videos and virtual environment can be used (Akpnar, 2004; Hannafin & Peck, 1988). It is of great importance to make use of more educational tools in the classroom to help students understand better. In today's classrooms, visual and auditory materials come to the fore. For these visual and auditory materials to be effectively used, the specific features of the tools should be known. These features may seem to be very simple sometimes, but they can be very important for the effective use of a tool; hence, for the quality of the lesson (Küçükahmet, 1999). Binbaşoğlu (1994) reported the good sides of educational materials-based teaching as follows: they help maintain the continuity of teaching and enhance motivation, they help teach correctly, they bring variety, reality and concreteness to teaching and learning environment and they are emotionally enriching. On the other hand, they lessen the use of language, they can be really expensive, they may be time-consuming, teachers may not be qualified enough to use such tools and

Alper and Gülbahar (2009; 124-125) performed a meta-analysis on studies carried out on educational technologies between 2003 and 2007, and they found that most of the studies focus on "the effects of multimedia-enhanced computer" and "integration of technology and internet education". Research looking at the application of various dimensions of education technology in teaching has revealed that educational technology applications have multi-

use of educational technologies (Uzunboylu, 1995; Yenice, 2003).

they may lead to deterioration of thinking skills (Rüzgar, 2005).

**1. Introduction** 

**on Pre-Service Science Teachers' Attitudes** 

**Towards Educational Technologies** 

**(The Case of Muğla University-Turkey)** 

*Department of Elementary Education Science Education Field, Muğla* 
