An example of the use of technology in history lesson: Interactive unit design

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effects of the history book which is interacted via 2D code barcodes on the attitudes of the 12th grade students at the " Kemalism and Turkish Revolution" unit and their attitudes towards the use of technology in the history lesson. The research was carried out in a lower socioeconomic state school within the borders of Adana province in the 2018-2019 academic year. In this research, a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group was used, and experimental and control groups were formed to test the effectiveness of the barcode interacting units. A total of 65 students, 32 of whom were in the control group and 33 in the experimental group, participated in the study. While collecting research data, the 25-item " Academic Achievement Test" prepared by the researcher was used to measure the success of the students in history subjects; In order to measure the technology attitudes, prepared by Yavuz & Coşkun (2008) and the necessary permission was taken ,and this attitude scale was adapted to quinary likert scale" the attitudes towards technology in the history lesson. Lessons were processed with traditional teaching methods in the control group, and in the experimental group, the lessons were prepared with the help of the code barcode placed on the tablets 'chosen subjects within the scope of the interactive unit designed to open the visual and audio materials and videos about the subject in the selected unit. The scales were applied as pre-test and post-test to both group students before and after the unit subjects were processed. For the analysis of the data, SPSS (Statistical Packet for Social Sciences) 22.0 program was used. Data obtained from achievement test and attitude scale were analyzed by using t-test. Analyzes have shown that the use of interactive unit design is more effective than the current traditional method in students' academic achievements in the subjects covered by the research. In addition, the effect size value was calculated as 0.67 (medium level). In the attitudes towards technology in the history class, it was seen that the attitude scores of the experimental group students were higher in all sub-dimensions of the scale. however, this difference was not statistically significant. Keywords: Interactive Unit, Technology Assisted History Education, QR Code Barcode, Education With QR Code, FATIH Poject, EBA.