Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Sosyal Medyayı Eğitsel Amaçlı Kullanma Durumları ve Sosyal Medyaya Yönelik Tutumları
Use of Social Media for Educational Purposes by Secondary School Students and Attitudes towards Social Media

Summary/Abstract: This research aims to review use of social media for educational purposes by the secondary school students and attitudes towards social media based on different variables. Use of social media by the students for educational purposes offers them a very rich educational platform and also helps them to obtain information about the ever-changing innovations of the globalizing world. Relational screening model is used for this study and 388 secondary school students, who are selected among students attending to school in Sivas in the academic year of 2017 and 2018 with random sampling method, participated to this study. The “Educational use of social media scale” and the “Social media attitude scale” were used as data collection tools. The obtained data was tested with ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. As a result of the analyzes, it is concluded that the score of secondary school students in terms of using social media for educational purposes is at average level, there is no significant difference based on gender; the male students have a positive scores and female students have negative scores when it comes to scores relate to attitude towards social media and there is significant difference in favor of the male students if compared based on gender and time of using internet accounts for 8.6 % of the total variance regarding use of social media for educational purposes.

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