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Abstract—This research was conducted in 2018 to determine the opinions of prospective teachers about the usability of Web 2.0 tools in education. Quantitative research method was used in the research. The research was conducted in the spring term of 2018–2019. The study group consisted of prospective teachers studying at the faculties of education of the foundation university. 114 prospective teachers participated in the study. The data collection tool called Son The Problems of the Last Year Students of the Faculty of Education and Their Problems in Teaching Practice gelistiril developed by Aylin Demirhan and Meryem Yakut was applied to the teacher candidates. The data were collected by the researchers. The collected data were analysed using the SPSS program. To analyse the data obtained from the data collection tool, frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values, T-test and analysis of variance applied. According to the results of the study, prospective teachers’ opinions about the use of Web 2.0 tools are highly positive. It is thought that the students' ability to create content with active participation, support social interaction, and creativity in educational environments, and it is seen in the results of the research that the prospective teachers reported positive opinions. Web 2.0 tools are thought to have a positive effect on learning due to their rich content and may be useful in increasing the prospective teachers' communicative abilities with their common workspaces. Therefore, it is predicted that teachers' use of Web 2.0 tools in their courses will contribute to the development of prospective teachers. In addition, it is thought that the training to be provided by educators who have an important role in guiding prospective teachers and guiding them for a better education will enable prospective teachers to use Web 2.0 tools more frequently and efficiently.

Highlights

  • Adopting these connections in the society with the technology of change and development from past to present, we can constantly fold in this process and we have various abilities to structure and change these changes [1]

  • In the study conducted by Yavanoglu, Sagiroglu and Colak [6], online social networks, ‘Individuals are defined as tools for social communication in virtual environments created by people by identifying themselves in the social life on the internet and communicating to people with whom they can reach the same cultural level by means of internet communication methods and by showing symbolic movements that symbolise various gestures made in normal social life

  • The opinions of university teachers about the usability of Web 2.0 tools in education and teaching and the results and interpretations related to the findings are given

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Introduction

Adopting these connections in the society with the technology of change and development from past to present, we can constantly fold in this process and we have various abilities to structure and change these changes [1]. A website 2.0 pages focusing on teacher candidates, an easy structure and training areas related to broad product ranges suitable for the elderly and the elderly, the technologies on our website, our options for technologies and the planning of the teacher candidates themselves are planned to be supported [8] [ When all these issues were handled, today's information technology and infrastructure development very rapidly, with the development of the normal web understanding is not used, mostly by providing the effectiveness of preservice teachers said that the structure closer [9] [27]. Looking at the service and applications on the last computer on the web, the menu item states that the content can be focused on (picture, video, article, presentation sharing, etc.), that standard applications and services become operable and that the understanding of different production and the ability to form social networks gains importance [10]

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