A Qualitative Study on Teacher Candidates` Opinions on the Necessity of Receiving New Media Training and Their Attitudes Towards Their Own Efficacy

Authors : Dilek Turan Eroğlu
Pages : 372-395
Doi:10.33464/mediaj.1731453
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Publication Date : 2025-10-27
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :Abstract Seeing the characteristics of new media like the speed, power, interaction and widespread impact of the digital world, it is a must to understand and use it correctly. For quality and effective education, it is necessary for teachers to create awareness about the subject and guide the next generation to develop and protect themselves to be educated in new media. Whether there is enough sensitivity in this regard is an issue that needs to be examined. To give students the opportunity to develop their potential and to play an active role in the development of the country, the content and methods of education should be rearranged in a way that will provide them with skills like critical thinking, creative thinking, scientific thinking, relational thinking and reasoning. Based on the fact that media literacy skills are not sufficient, it is a skill that teacher candidates are expected to complete. The existence of inadequacy in this regard is a problem. This study aims to evaluate the individual views of teacher candidates regarding their educational needs regarding the use of new media. The study was carried out by applying a semi-structured interview technique to teacher candidates who are students of the faculty of education at a university in Anatolia. The views of the teacher candidates regarding their media literacy skills show that their awareness about the subject is high but their skills are not as positive as they would like. It is argued that the media literacy course they take only for one semester in their senior year is not sufficient to provide theoretical and practical competence on the subject. Compared to the fact that the course was not compulsory previously, giving the course even for one semester creates important awareness and results in some improvements in digital content preparation and design.
Keywords : Eğitim, Medya Okuryazarlığı, Yeterlilik, Öğretmen, Tutum

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