The analysis of usage level of educational technologies by the secondary school teachers on the professional field.

Raising the next generation as a generation of information, is one of the essential goals for schools. Schools take the lead of institutions that must reach the new technologies first and use them in the most efffective way. Technology does not only affect education but also affects whole lifestyle and culture. For this reason, considering schools with information technologies and making teachers use them effectively have become a crucial necessity. Also schools have to raise individuals that are suitable for public needs. So, there is a need for revealing the attitude towards using educational technologies by teachers and a varying profile for teachers. The aim of this research is to investigate the levels of usage of the educational technologies of the secondary school teachers in the schools. This research is a quantitive research by using survey technique. 200 teachers from 10 secondary school in Istanbul in the second semester of 2012-2013 education term were used as a sample group. The first 8 questions of questionnaire was demographic information such as sex, age, proffesional experience, education level, branch, type of school they work at and whether they have taken any courses about teaching technologies. The remaining 55 questions investigate the usage of these educational technologies. The data were analyzed in frequencies and percentages by SPSS 16 program. Whether there is a meaningful difference in usage of educational technologies according to given parameters was determined by chi-square test, frequencies and percentages for those that has meaningful difference were shown in cross tables. Concidering the results of this study teachers were, good at using basic technologies in education, fair at using internet based technologies, audio-visual technologies and computer technologies and delicate at using computer systems. The lack of adequate technological infrastructure in schools and knowledge of teachers about educational technologies can be shown as a reason. Key Words 1. Education technologies 2. Teachers of middle grade of schools 3. Computer technologies 4. Teaching technologies 5. Learning and training methods