Internet Usage Habits and Internet Usage in Educational Studies of Vocational School Students

Authors : Zehra Deniz YAKINCI, Perihan GÜRBÜZ, Gülsüm YETİŞ

Pages : 33-46

Doi:10.18009/jcer.330925

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Publication Date : 2018-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Internet is the easiest way to access information. It provides positive contributions to individual and surroundings, in learning and information era. At this point the answers of the questions: ‘How do young people use internet and how much do they use internet for their education?’ come into prominence. In order to find the answers; a questionnaire prepared by resarchers and Young Internet Addiction Test- Short Form insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(YIAT-SF); was used on ‘Health Services Vocational High School’ students, in this study. 3.4 % of students were found to have internet addiction and the average internet usage was found to be 5 hours daily. When students were asked to enumerate the internet sites they use, the result was: social media, news sites, movie and series sites, educational and informational content sites, play sites, e-mail, shopping sites, and sexual content sites in order of usage preferance. While social media was preferred by 79.4% in the first place, educational content sites were determined to be preferred by 5.7% in the first place among others. The second most frequently used sites by students were movies and series insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(22.8%);. Educational / informational content insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(20.2 %); sites were the fifth preferred sites in the preference order.
Keywords : internet kullanım alışkanlığı, eğitsel çalışmalarda internet kullanımı, Young internet bağımlılığı ölçeği, Meslek yüksekokulu öğrencileri

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