Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PEGEM EGITIM VE OGRETIM DERGISI, cilt.7, sa.3, ss.421-452, 2017 (ESCI)
The purpose of this study is to reveal secondary students' habits of using Internet. For this aim, the sample consisted of 442 secondary school students. Descriptive and comparative research methods were used. According to the results of the study, children mostly used Internet for their course and fun while their level of conscious usage skill was low. The most common problems while using Internet were virus attack and stolen passwords. The precautions taken for these problems were inadequate. Another result showed that the students mostly got information about usage of Internet from their family members. A considerable number of students shared their personal information with everyone although they didn't spend a long time in social network sites. Also, there were significant differences between the students' conscious usage of Internet and taken precautions for the problems on the Internet according to grade level. According to the gender, there was no significant difference between them except for items of "making privacy setting on social networks". On the other hand, the results showed that parents' skill of Internet usage was low and, few of them had awareness towards conscious usage of Internet and the students got information mostly from their parents.