Abstract
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the temporary interruption of educational activities in the classroom. Digitalization of the classrooms emerged as a need following that process. The objective of this study is to compare the digital citizenship levels of teacher candidates studying in the last year at the departments of classroom teaching and primary school classroom teachers and to reveal their needs. A total of 38 primary school classroom teachers and 27 classroom teacher candidates in the last year of teaching programs in North Cyprus participated in the research. This descriptive study was designed as a case study, which is a qualitative research approach. The data of the study were gathered within the frame of a grounded theory coding process and were analyzed through descriptive analysis, content analysis and the constant comparison technique. The digital citizenship levels of the classroom teachers and teacher candidates were analyzed according to the sub-dimensions of digital citizenship. As a result of the research, it was found that the digital citizenship sub-dimension scores of the classroom teachers were higher than the teacher candidates and that the teacher candidates needed digital citizenship education.
Highlights
As a result of the continuingly developing modern technologies, distance has become unimportant, which has led to a fundamental transformation of human life (Davies, 2011)
Desktop computers, laptops, smart phones, and tablets, and other mobile devices allow humans to integrate the digital world into their daily lives and they can contact their friends via online media
Time saving Not using due to insecurity. This result shows adjustment with the results of the study conducted by Vural and Kurt (2018) and it is concluded that individuals from all areas of society are able to access digital equipment-tools and the applications in their daily lives, especially through mobile devices
Summary
As a result of the continuingly developing modern technologies, distance has become unimportant, which has led to a fundamental transformation of human life (Davies, 2011). This change has triggered human curiosity toward technology and the Internet and the levels of interest and addition to the Internet are continually increasing. In the last decade alone, the regular access and use of digital technology have increased in all age groups (Rideout, 2017). Parallel to the increase in use of the Internet, the development of mobile devices, information communication technologies and cloud technologies have had a considerable impact. People have started to use mobile devices in schools or other
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