Studying attitudes of student and opinions of teacher and teacher candidate regarding the media literacy lesson

The most distinctive feature that distinguishes the individual of today's society from the individual of the previous period is that he has been living in a period when many written and visual messages are being conveyed consciously. In order to understand these messages, human beings must know the language of media which is a means of transmission and become literate. For this reason, it was aimed to determine student attitudes about media literacy course and to determine the opinions of teachers and teacher candidates. In addition, the relationship of media literacy skills with 2018 middle school Turkish course gains and the status of media literacy in renewed undergraduate programs are examined. It was determined that there is a significant difference between the opinions of the students about the way they perceive the media and the preferences of the media tools. In this study, since quantitative and qualitative research methods are used together, this research is designed with mixed method. Attitude scale was used in the quantitative dimension of the study and interview form was used in the qualitative dimension. The study group consisted of 153 eighth grade students who had taken media literacy courses in 5 secondary schools in which the elective media literacy course was given in Giresun in 2017-2018 academic year. A total of 256 students participated in the study. The working group where the qualitative data is collected is in the schools where elective media literacy course is given is consists of 5 social studies and 1 Turkish teacher and 15 social studies and 15 Turkish teacher candidates are in Giresun University Faculty of Education. The qualitative and quantitative study groups of the study were determined by random methods. SPSS 16.0 program was used to analyze the quantitative data. In the analysis of qualitative data, data collected through interviews were analyzed by content analysis. Based on the findings of the study; There is no significant difference between the attitudes of the media literacy classes and the attitudes of the media towards the perception of the media, the students prefer the media tools in the same order and they prefer the Internet, television, magazine, newspaper, radio, It was concluded that there was a semantic difference, media literacy was perceived as an unnecessary course, subjects related to media literacy were not covered in the course, and that the time allocated for this course was used as a complement to other branch courses. As a result, it has been suggested that media literacy education should be given by people who have adequate equipment in this field and the course is mandatory, not necessarily in life, and that scientific studies and research should be increased in this field.