Overview of digital divide and democracy awareness: Primary school students' opinions

Bu çalışmada öğrencilerin BİT’e erişim ve okuryazarlık durumları ile demokrasi bilinci arasındaki ilişkiyi saptamak için öğrenci görüşleri alınmıştır. İlişkisel tarama yöntemi kullanılan araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2010-2011 eğitim-öğretim yılında ilköğretim 7. ve 8. sınıfa devam eden, 28 farklı ilden, toplam 979 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada veriler üç tane veri toplama aracı aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde frekans, yüzde, ki-kare ve Kruskal Wallis testi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre öğrencilerin üçte birinin bilgisayara ve internete erişimi bulunmamaktadır. Buna göre erişimi bulunmayan grup ile bulunan grup arasında sayısal uçurum bulunduğu söylenebilir. Öte yandan BİT okuryazarlığı orta düzeyde olan katılımcıların demokrasi bilincinin, evde BİT’e erişim durumlarına ve BİT okuryazarlığına göre anlamlı bir farklılık göstermediği belirlenmiştir.

Sayısal uçurum ve demokrasi bilincine bakış: İlköğretim öğrencilerinin görüşleri

In this study, opinions of students were collected for the sake of determining relationship between ICT access, ICT literacy, and the democratic consciousness. In the framework of the descriptive and relational study method, the working group consisted of 979 students from 28 cities who attend 7th and 8th grades of elementary school during the year of 2010-2011. In order to collect the data, three instruments were used. For the analysis of the data, frequency, percentages chi-square and Kruskal Wallis tests were used. According to the results of the survey it was confirmed that 34.8 percent of the participants neither have access to internet nor computer at home. Participants’democratic consciousness level doesn’t vary according to ICT access and ICT literacy.

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