Teachers’ Opinions about FATIH Project: Awareness, Foresight and Expectations

Abstract

This study aims to reveal thoughts of teachers about FATIH project with the dimensions of awareness, foresight and expectation. Study sample consisted of a total of 1201 teachers serving in 16 different cities. “Evaluation Scale of Thoughts about FATIH Project” developed by Karal et al. (2013) was used as data collection tool. The scale consists of three dimensions including awareness, foresight and expectation dimensions, and the open ended question “your thoughts you want to add ...” In data analysis, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, independent t-test, ANOVA were used for quantitative data, and content analysis method was used for qualitative data. In conclusion, it was determined that teachers’ level of awareness about the technologies to be brought in to schools and benefits of such technologies was high, they had the foresights that technical problems would be suffered in the course of implementation of the project, learning outcomes would be affected negatively and equality of opportunity could not be achieved only by technology, and they had the expectation of provision of a practical and long-term effective in-service training in small groups by professionals.