The level of information technology literacy and utilization of these technologies by the teachers in elemantary schools

In research, the level of the information technology literacy of the teachers in primary education and determination of the usage of these were evaluated. The universe of this research is consisting of the teachers working in the primary schools in Ankara and cities of Ankara in 2007-2008 school years. The sample is consisting of 459 teachers who are chosen with simple random sampling. In the research relational scanning model was used. To measure the level of IT literacy a scale includes 6 factors and 38 matters which base the model of literacy of Dynamic IT was used. Reliability and validity study were made for the allowed scale and the scale was adopted to Turkish. In the analysis of the data; frequency (f) descriptive statistics, percent (%), arithmetic mean ( ), standard deviation (s), in the single and multiple factor comparisons variance analysis and non- parametric tests such as Kruskal Wallis H-Test, Mann Whitney U test was used. In the research the level of meaningfulness was decided at .05.Teachers used IT more frequent to search information and material in the web, to prepare lesson notes and material, to use in the activities of the lesson plan, to make personal and occupational improvement, to the goals of the measurement and evaluation. Problem solving and basic information technology capabilities of teachers are higher. It was seen that the level of the literacy of IT of the less seniority teachers and the teachers who are postgraduate are higher. The points of the teachers who used IT frequently for teaching and the teachers always used the IT for personal and occupational improvement are in the high level of the literacy of IT .