The state of internet usage by branch teachers in primary education

With the active usage of the information technologies in education, lots ofteachers and students can benefit from the digital world. With the attention of schools totechnological advancements, it becomes necessity for teachers keep up with thesedigital advancements.The goal of this research is to find out the opinions of the branch teachers onİnternet and the use of it and their ideas about the usage of the İnternet for educationalpurposes.This research took place at the schools of the Polatlı and Kazan districts inAnkara. The usage statistics of the internet among teachers of these schools, and for theones who do not use internet, their approach for internet usage has been studied.In this study public survey method has been used. The literature for dataacquisition methods has been considered and the survey has been applied to branchteachers working in primary schools for the term 2004-2005. A total of 191 branchteacher replied to survey out of 250 which means a % 76,4 response ratio.Collected data has been analyzed using SPSS 10.0 and percentage, frequencyanalyzes applied to data.The results of the analyzed data have been compared with the findings ofprevious researches about this subject. According to results, it has been found out that,teachers who learned how to use internet by themselves or who do not ever usedinternet, need courses about internet usage. It has been realized that in the courses givenby these teachers the internet usage is insufficient or nonexistent in most cases.