Abstract
Social networks are platforms that have entered our lives together with the development of web 2.0 technologies, with millions and even billions of users. In response to many positive aspects, the safe use of social networks, including some threats and risks, is an important issue for the individual, institutional and national safety. This study is to investigate the level of safe social network usage of teacher candidates and to demonstrate whether the status of using secure safe networking varies according to demographic variables. The study group consisted of teacher candidates from a state university, Faculty of Education in Turkey. The survey model was used in this study. According to the findings obtained from the analyses, half of the teachers' candidates use social network around 1-3 hours average per day. The aim of using social networks is to communicate and chat with their friends at the very beginning. The behavior of the teachers who participate in the study is the use of safe social networking behaviors at a high level.
Highlights
The General Competence of Teaching Profession issued by the General Directorate of Teacher Training and Development of the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey states that the teacher prepares healthy and safe learning environments for all students in which effective learning can take place
The aim of this study is to investigate the level of safe social network usage of teacher candidates and to demonstrate whether the status of using secure social networking varies according to demographic variables
The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of safe social networking of teacher candidates and to reveal whether the status of using safe social networks differs according to demographic variables
Summary
Social networks are an important place among web-based software, with interactive environments where users can produce content directly, share content they produce, interpret, record, and edit shares Due to these possibilities, the number of users is constantly increasing, both learning and teaching activities, as well as the Web platforms where student-teacher-family communication can be done without limitation of time and space, reveals the importance of social networks. The number of users is constantly increasing, both learning and teaching activities, as well as the Web platforms where student-teacher-family communication can be done without limitation of time and space, reveals the importance of social networks In this period when the digital native generation began to use social networks intensively and continued, integration into education has become almost a necessity. In another proficiency statement in the same document, it is pointed out that teachers should actively use information and communication technologies in the process of learning and teaching (MoNE, 2017)
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