Comparison of Users' Adoption and Use Cases of Facebook and Their Academic Procrastination

Academic procrastination is one of the many types of postponing behaviors which almost every person demonstrates from time to time. One of the sources of academic procrastination, which can be expressed as postponing academic-based works to another time without a particular reason, is replacing the work to be done with pleasurable activities such as the internet use. The aim of this study is to compare the adoption and use cases of online social networks which are accessible via the internet and used quite intensively, and academic procrastination behaviors of Facebook users. In this context, the data acquired from 715 Facebook users were analyzed through SPSS 15 software. It was found out that people who use Facebook in accordance with their social relations have higher tendency for academic procrastination than people who use it for daily purposes, furthermore, people who use Facebook for academic purposes do not have a tendency for academic procrastination as a result of the statistical analysis conducted. Another output is that users with high level of adoption of Facebook have more tendency for academic procrastination than users with medium and low level of adoption of Facebook.Academic procrastination is one of the many types of postponing behaviors which almost every person demonstrates from time to time. One of the sources of academic procrastination, which can be expressed as postponing academic-based works to another time without a particular reason, is replacing the work to be done with pleasurable activities such as the internet use. The aim of this study is to compare the adoption and use cases of online social networks which are accessible via the internet and used quite intensively, and academic procrastination behaviors of Facebook users. In this context, the data acquired from 715 Facebook users were analyzed through SPSS 15 software. It was found out that people who use Facebook in accordance with their social relations have higher tendency for academic procrastination than people who use it for daily purposes, furthermore, people who use Facebook for academic purposes do not have a tendency for academic procrastination as a result of the statistical analysis conducted. Another output is that users with high level of adoption of Facebook have more tendency for academic procrastination than users with medium and low level of adoption of Facebook

The Role of Media Literacy in Online Information Searching Strategies

Along with the spread of Web 2.0 technologies, individuals' habits such as learning, socializing, and getting information have changed rapidly. A lot of information, the accuracy of which cannot be trusted, is available in the web, and it becomes difficult to choose useful, relevant, and accurate information. This pollution is also present in the media. The abilities to choose messages in the media, to look at these messages critically, and to produce your own messages are considered among the 21st-century skills. These reasons bring media literacy (ML) and online information searching strategies (OISS) to the agenda. The processes of ML and OISS have interrelated features. Therefore, it is important and necessary to examine these concepts together. Based on this necessity, the aim of the study was to determine the role of ML in OISS. To this end, the data were collected from 1809 pre-service teachers using the OISS inventory and the ML level determination scale. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, MANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. According to the results, pre-service teachers' ML and OISS levels were above the moderate level. ML and OISS vary significantly according to the type of websites. In conclusion, ML was revealed as a predictor variable that could explain OISS at a rate of 33.2%

Defining Teachers’ Technostress Levels: A Scale Development

With the integration of technology in recent years, use of technology has rapidly increased in educational system, and has become almost a must rather than an option. The use of technology in educational processes accompanies some adaptation issues due to the nature of technology (rapid development, cost, need for electricity, change of roles, etc.). An important professional group that has been affected from this process is teaching. The pressure on teachers results in a stress commonly referred as techno-stress. The purpose of the present study is developing a Likert-type scale called as “Teachers’ Techno-stress Levels Defining Scale (TTLDS)” intended for defining teachers’ techno-stress levels. In accordance with this purpose, data were collected from 395 teachers. The steps followed in the present scale development study respectively are; forming the theoretical framework and pool of items, getting expert opinion, and testing validity and reliability. To define factor structure for validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and item discrimination; and for reliability internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) and split-halves reliability coefficient (Spearman-Brown) were calculated. Validity and reliability studies resulted in a 28-item, five-factor (“Learning-Teaching Process Oriented”, “Profession Oriented”, “Technical Issue Oriented”, “Personal Oriented”, and “Social Oriented”) scale. For reliability coefficients, Cronbach Alpha was calculated as 0.917, and Spearman-Brown was calculated as 0.845. Keywords: Technostress, Psychology, ICT use, Teachers

The Examination of Online Information Searching Strategies of Students That Use Social Network

Bu çalışmanın amacı, sosyal ağ kullanan öğrencilerin çevrimiçi bilgi arama stratejilerini, eğitim düzeyi, yaş ve günlük internet kullanım süresi açısından incelemektir. İlişkisel tarama modelinde desenlenen araştırmanın örneklemini çevrimiçi bir sosyal ağ uygulaması aracılığıyla ulaşılan 1135 katılımcı oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma verileri Demografik Özellikleri Belirleme Formu ve Çevrimiçi Bilgi Arama Stratejileri Envanteri ile toplanmıştır. Verilerin çözümlenmesinde betimsel istatistikler ve tek faktörlü varyans analizi tekniklerinden yararlanılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre sosyal ağ kullanan öğrencilerin çevrimiçi bilgi arama stratejileri, yaş, eğitim düzeyi ve günlük internet kullanım süresi bakımından anlamlı farklılık göstermektedir. Bu anlamlı farklılığın daha net belirlenmesi ve bütüncül bir bakış açısının ortaya konması için gelecek araştırmalarda farklı sosyal ağ platformu kullanan bireyler ile birlikte sosyal ağ kullanmayan bireyler de sürece katılarak veri toplanması ve çok değişkenli istatistiksel yöntemlerden yararlanılması önerilmektedir.The purpose of this study is to determine the online information searching strategies of students that use social network by the educational level, age and daily internet use. The sample of the study designed as a relational model constitute 1135 participant achieved through the social networking application. The research data were collected with the Demographic Characteristics Form and the Online Information Searching Strategy Inventory. In data analysis, descriptive statistics and one way Anova were used. According to findings, online information searching strategies of students that use social network had significant difference in terms of educational level, age and daily internet use. Future researches are recommended with various social networking platform users and nonusers and utilization of multivariate statisticals methods to clarify this significant difference and reveal holistic perspective

Personal Cyber Security Provision Scale development studyKişisel Siber Güvenliği Sağlama Ölçeği geliştirme çalışması

The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine internet users behavior related to cyber security. In this context created an item pool in accordance with expert opinion. This item pool was administered to 810 people for exploratory factor analysis. In exploratory factor analysis; principal component analysis method which is commonly used and Varimax vertical rotation method to determine the factor structure was used. Scale was administered to 292 people and structural equation modeling approach was applied to confirmation study.As a result of factor analysis,“Personal Cyber Security Provision Scale" which consists of 5 factors and 25 items and has a good compatibility was occurred. ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı internet kullanıcılarının siber güvenlik ile ilgili davranışlarını belirlemeye yönelik bir ölçek geliştirmektir. Bu bağlamda öncelikle uzman görüşü doğrultusunda 26 maddelik bir madde havuzu oluşturulmuştur. Bu madde havuzu yapı geçerliliğinin test edilmesi için Facebook sosyal paylaşımda bir uygulamayı kullanan 810 kişiye uygulanarak açımlayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizinde en sık kullanılan yöntem olan temel bileşenler analizi yöntemi kullanılmış, ölçekteki faktör yapısını belirlemek için ise Varimax - dikey döndürme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Ölçeğin doğrulama çalışması için ise aynı sosyal ağ uygulamasını kullanan ve daha önce ölçeğin uygulandığı kişilerin elendiği292 kişinin verisi kullanılarak yapısal eşitlik modeli yaklaşımı uygulanmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda 5 faktörlü ve 25 maddeden oluşan; doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonucunda ise elde edilen uyum indekslerine göre iyi bir uyuma sahip "Kişisel Siber Güvenliği Sağlama Ölçeği" ortaya çıkmıştır

Comparison of users' adoption and use cases of Facebook and their academic procrastination

Academic procrastination is one of the many types of postponing behaviors which almost every person demonstrates from time to time. One of the sources of academic procrastination, which can be expressed as postponing academic-based works to another time without a particular reason, is replacing the work to be done with pleasurable activities such as the internet use. The aim of this study is to compare the adoption and use cases of online social networks which are accessible via the internet and used quite intensively, and academic procrastination behaviors of Facebook users. In this context, the data acquired from 715 Facebook users were analyzed through SPSS 15 software. It was found out that people who use Facebook in accordance with their social relations have higher tendency for academic procrastination than people who use it for daily purposes, furthermore, people who use Facebook for academic purposes do not have a tendency for academic procrastination as a result of the statistical analysis conducted. Another output is that users with high level of adoption of Facebook have more tendency for academic procrastination than users with medium and low level of adoption of Facebook

Öğrencilerin Gözüyle Teknoloji Okuryazarlığı: Nedir, Neredeyiz, Aile ve Çocuklar İçin Neler Yapmalı?

Nowadays, there is a swift transformation in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and all technological devices and tools affect our lives both on an individual and societal level with their innovations. Especially such technological devices as computers, mobile phones and tablet PCs require us to know how to use these technologies efficiently, therefore aiming to make their use and the lives of individuals and societies much easier. In this view, the concept of technology literacy comes to the prominence. In this study designed qualitatively, the opinions of 25 students from the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies about the term technological literacy are collected. A definition is made using these concepts while students define technological literacy as becoming aware and following, ability to use, problem solving and benefiting from its use in social life. In addition to that, students stated negative opinions about the society in which they live. They stated that there is an unconscious and purposeless or limited technology use even though the use of technology differs to a great extent in terms of age. Students also made a recommendation for parents and children to get education on technology, to acquire further information and to keep a close track on technology.Günümüzde ICTlerde hızlı bir dönüşüm yaşanmakta, yenilik olarak karşımıza çıkan teknolojik araçlar ve ürünler bireysel ve toplumsal olarak yaşamı etkilemektedir. Özellikle bilgisayar, cep telefonu, tablet PC gibi çoğu teknolojik araç, bu teknolojilerin etkin bilinmesini, kullanımını ve bu sayede bireylerin ve toplumun yaşamının kolaylaştırılmasını amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda teknoloji okuryazarlığı kavramı ön plana çıkmaktadır. Bu araştırmada nitel olarak desenlenen bu araştırmada 25 bilgisayar öğretmenliği bölümü öğrencisinin görüşleri ile teknoloji okuryazarlığı kavramı ele alınmıştır. Öğrenciler teknoloji okuryazarlığını teknolojiden haberdar olma ve takip etme, kullanabilme, problem çözme ve sosyal yaşamda yararlanabilme boyutları ile değerlendirmiş, bu değerlendirmelerden yola çıkılarak da bir tanıma ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca öğrencilerin, içinde yaşadıkları toplumu olumsuz biçimde değerlendirdiği sonucu dikkat çekmiştir. Daha çok bilinçsiz ve amaçsız ya da sınırlı düzeyde bir teknoloji kullanımının var olduğu, buna karşın yaşa göre kullanımın farklılaştığı değerlendirmesinde bulunmuşlardır. Öğrenciler ailelere ve çocuklara yönelik teknolojiler konusunda eğitim alma ve bilgilendirilmenin, ayrıca teknolojinin yakından takip edilmesinin önemini dile getirmişlerdir

SOSYAL AĞ KULLANICILARI ARASINDA NOMOFOBİ YAYGINLIĞININ ÇEŞİTLİ FAKTÖRLER AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ

Bu çalışmada, mobil telefonundan yoksun kalma korkusu olarak bilinen nomofobinin sosyal ağ kullanıcıları arasındaki yaygınlığının çeşitli faktörler açısından incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Nedensel karşılaştırma modeli ile betimlenen çalışmanın çalışma grubu, günlük ortalama 5200 aktif kullanıcısı olan çevrimiçi bir sosyal ağ uygulaması aracılığıyla ulaşılan 1151 sosyal ağ kullanıcısından oluşmaktadır. Çalışmada Yıldırım ve Correia (2015) tarafından geliştirilen ve Yıldırım, Şumuer, Adnan ve Yıldırım (2016) tarafından Türkçeye uyarlanmış Nomofobi ölçeği (NMP-Q) ve demografik bilgi formu aracılığıyla toplanan veriler, betimsel istatistikler, bağımsız örneklem t-testi ve tek yönlü varyans analizi (ANOVA) teknikleri ile analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgulara göre sosyal ağ kullanıcılarının nomofobi düzeylerinin nomofobi ölçeğinden alınan puana göre ortalamanın üzerinde olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Kullanıcıların eğitim durumu ve akıllı telefon kullanma süresi değişkenlerine göre anlamlı bir fark bulunmamış, nomofobi düzeyinin akıllı telefonu kontrol sıklığı, mobil internet kullanma süresi ve günlük mobil internet kullanma süresi değişkenlerine göre anlamlı farklılık taşıdığı görülmüştür. Sonuç olarak, sosyal ağ kullanıcılarının nomofobi düzeyinin, akıllı telefonu kontrol etme sıklığı, mobil internet kullanma süresi ve günlük mobil internet kullanma süresi arttıkça arttığı gözlenmiştir.In this study, the fear of being deprived of his mobile phone known as nomophobia among to the prevalence of social network users was examined in terms of various factors. The causalcomparative method was used in this study. This study used data from 1151 online social network users. The Nomophobia Scale (NMP-Q) developed by Yildirim & Correia (2015), and adopted to Turkish by Yildirim, Sumuer, Adnan and Yildirim (2016) was used in this study. Independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze data. Findings indicate that nomophobia levels of the participants are above moderate level, based on average score. There is no significant difference as of education level, duration of mobile phone. However, there is a significant difference among number of daily checking smartphone, duration of mobile internet use, and daily duration of mobile internet use