Examining Preschool Teachers’ Attitudes about the Usage of Technological Tools in Education

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.