Examining Teachers' Use of Interactive Features of Smart Board: Is Smart Board Really Used as an Interactive Tool?

• In Event: 26.080 - Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: 26.080-1 - Instructional Technology Applications in Content Areas: Language Education

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine high school teachers’ use of interactive features of smartboards on behalf of teachers' opinions. Quantitative research was used and 535 teachers working in pilot schools from ten province under the project of Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology (FATIH) participated in the study. Data were collected through a smartboards’ interactive features usage level scale and analysed through non-parametric tests. A significant difference was found between the level of teachers’ use of the interactive features of smartboard and professional experience, province, computer ownership, having training of smartboards on their field, previous experience of smartboard usage, usage duration, frequency of use and the case of suggesting the use of smartboards.

Authors

• Cemal Tatli

• Eylem Kilic, Yuzuncu Yil University