Primary school teachers' views on the social sciences lesson contents in some educational softwares in terms of compliance with the principles of seamless learning

In this research, it is aimed to examine the opinions of primary teachers in terms of the appropriateness of social sciences course contents in Education Information Network (EBA), Morpa Campus and Okulistik education softwares to seamless learning principles. The sample of the study consists of 210 primary teachers selected by simple random sampling from 385 teachers working in 4th grade in primary schools of Elazığ province in 2018-2019 academic year. Descriptive scanning model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. In the research, a questionnaire was applied to examine the opinions of primary teachers about appropriateness to seamless learning principles of 4th grade social sciences course contents in the subject of "How is the weather tomorrow?" located in the unit of "People, Places and Environments" in EBA, Morpa Campus and Okulistik educational softwares. The questionnaire was prepared using Wong and Looi's (2011) Mobile Supported Seamless Learning principles. Data were analyzed according to mean (x), standard deviation (ss), frequency (and), percentage (%) distributions. The data about the level of self-efficacy of primary teachers about using educational software were analyzed according to demographic informations (frequency of using educational software, age, gender, professional seniority, graduation department, presence of own computer, level of computer use, the status of taking of courses or lessons related to technology products pre-service and in-service) by chi-square test. According to the analyzes, it was found that there was a significant difference between the teachers'proficiency in using the educational software in terms of "professional seniority, presence of own computer and computer use level" variables but no significant difference was found in terms of other variables. In addition, the frequency of primary teachers using educational softwares was examined. According to this, although the frequency of use is close, it is concluded that the most used educational software is Morpa Campus, Okulistik is second and EBA is third. The subject of "How is the weather tomorrow?", which is one of the contents of social sciences course in EBA, Morpa Campus and Okulistik educational softwares, was found by the 4th grade teachers in accordance with the seamless learning principles. It is concluded that the software which has the highest averages in terms of compliance with the principles of seamless learning is the Morpa Campus, the second is Okulistik and the third is Eba. Key words: Educational softwares, EBA, Morpa Campus, Okulistik, Primary school teachers' views, Seamless learning.