Turkish Studies - International, Year 2018 Issue Volume 13 Issue 6

The Effect of Youtube in Music Education: Online Piano Lessons

Fulya AÇIKSÖZ, Bahar GÜDEK — 2026-07-16

One of the indispensable subjects of the music and music education in this era encirling with the technology is the web site of YouTube which is at the top of the online video sharing sites. YouTube channel created in 2005, according to the worldwide sources is approximately downloaded 48 hour video content in each minute and this channel is viewed by 3 billion people on daily base. YouTube with its perceived feature which is not overlooked, as an instrument for a rapid and effective education at the present time is with this structure considered as a subject for the different academic researches. In this survey based upon the gist of the usage of the internet and technology in music education, performance videos of the different music kinds, online music educating videos and YouTube commanly used as online video sharing site are tackeled. This is a descriptive research aiming the determination of the situation and deducing to different results and suggestions with the purpose of analyzing the effects of using YouTube and online piano practices in music education. At the end of a field scanning aimed determining the best ones, two video channels have been chosen releasing by way of YouTube as representing the online piano education perfect. 302 online piano lessons determined throughout the selected channels Hoffman Academy and Piano Video Lessons were tabulated after an analyzing in terms of content and meaning. According to the data obtained, this survey has reached to end of following outcomes; examining YouTube online video lessons could be followed with no charge by way of internet connection, only the instructor is present in the class during the education, videos prepared entitling generally as begining, intermediate and advanced, etc. level, exemplifications related to the subjects are practically demonstrated at piano and positions of the hands are mostly transferred with a close shot footage, piano lessons are mostly for the beginners, visual materials are frequently used in expressing the subjects, in the lessons, basic technical studies, the theoric expressings such as music alphabet, music theory and rhythm practices, ear trainings, sight-reading studies, improvization and composing practices are practically pointed out by the instructor at piano.

Influence of Education Information Network Aided with on Teaching the Concepts of ‘Measurement of Force and Friction”

Hüseyin ARTUN, Merve Gül KIRICI , Hasan BAKIRCI — 2026-07-16

Education Information Network (EIN) is a technological tool which has a rich content and which is formed to service the goals of teachers and students by addressing individual differences in education. The present study investigated the influence of EIN-aided learning environments on students’ learning the concepts of “Measurement of Force and Friction”. In the study, the simple experimental design with a single pretest-posttest group, one of quantitative research approaches, was used. In order to determine the research sample, the simple random sampling method was used, and a total of 33 elementary school 5th grade students were selected as the participants of the study. In the study, 10 open-ended questions prepared by the researchers in a way to cover the concepts of “Measurement of Force and Friction” were used as the data collection tool. For the comparison of the data collected before and after the application process, dependent t-test was applied. The students’ responses to the open-ended questions were analyzed using the categories of ‘Fails to understand’, ‘Misunderstands’, ‘Partially understands with certain misconception, ‘Partially understands’ and ‘Fully understands’. The dependent samples t-test results regarding the single-group pretest-posttest applications revealed a significant difference between the pretest and posttest, showing that EIN-aided education had positive influence on the students’ learning the concepts. The results suggest that further research could be conducted to investigate the influence of EIN-aided educational applications on students’ success within the scope of different lesson units of the course of Science, in other courses and at different class grades.

Relationship between İnformation Literacy and Personal Development Regions of Child Development Program Students

Hakkı BAĞCI, Özlem ASLAN BAĞCI — 2026-07-16

Today, technology is expressed as the age of knowledge has become very easy to achieve thanks to the development of information and communication technologies. But there are some problems that can make it so easy for us to know that our time has come. The beginning of these is whether the information obtained is real and correct information. Individuals need to have information literacy competencies in order to be able to understand whether the information obtained is correct or not. An individual who is knowledge literate feels more comfortable in solving a problem that he or she is experiencing in education. It is an important part of personal development that the individual accepts the information obtained correctly from the right source and activates it by integrating it into his life. It is important for the students to identify themselves, especially the identification of the individual developmental orientations of the students in the education age. The purpose of this research is to examine whether there is a relationship between the level of information literacy and the personal developmental orientation of the child development program students. A screening model was used to collect the research data. Participants of the research constitute students of the 122 Child Development Program students who graduated from Sakarya University Health Services Vocational High School in the academic year 2016-2017. In order to collect data in the research, "Information Literacy Scale" developed by Adıgüzel (2011) and "Personal Growth Initiative Scale II" developed by Robitschek, Ashton, Spering, Geiger, Byers, Schotts & Thoen (2012) and adapted to Turkish by Yalçın and Malkoç (2013) was used. It has been observed that students participating in the study have a high level of information literacy. The level of information literacy of the students did not differ according to the level of the classes they had studied, whereas it was different according to the types of high school graduation. It has also been observed that students are prone to high levels of personal development. Another result is that the child development program students' personal development orientations do not differ according to the class levels they are studying and the types of high school graduation. Another consequence is that there is no significant relationship between information literacy levels of the child development program students and personal developmental orientations in terms of readiness to change, plannedness, use of resources and behavioral sub-dimensions.

Teacher Candidates’ Views on the Statements of the Competence of Using Educational Technologies and the Competence of Auxiliary Staff

İhsan Nuri DEMİREL — 2026-07-16

In this study; Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Faculty of Education Turkish Language Teacher candidates who are studying at the Department of Animal Science; A-) Adopted as Adequate Referees for the Use of Educational Technology; Thanks to the technological information obtained from the lecturers, the students can easily learn the technology; In addition to the lessons learned, the problems of adaptation of students to new technologies can be solved; Thanks to the opportunities and possibilities that the school has created, students have knowledge about many different technologies; It is motivating that the desire of the teaching staff to go to technology is to make students more interested in technology; The teaching staff and the education institution's technological background, the skills of the students to use the technology they need the least, and B-) the ones that are accepted as auxiliary staff complaints in the school; The assistant staff at the school qualitatively suffices; In the paperwork of the officers in the school, they do not say "come today tomorrow" in order to defeat the work; The security personnel at the school are very polite in their relationships; The security staff at the school do not distinguish between students; In order to get into the eyes of the security personnel at the school, security officers have searched for approaches to the issue that they are not much queen of the king and do not make 'superior guns'. Teacher candidates; A-) A questionnaire containing information on A-) Exercises for Adequacy of Employee Training Technol- ogy and B-) Adequacy of Assistive Personnel Qualifications in Schools, in order to determine the attitudes of B-) It is presented. The sample of the research constitutes a total of 121 teacher candidates who are studying at Ağrı İbrahim Chechen University Faculty of Education Turkish Education Department. According to the findings of the research; teacher candidates responded with different ratios of items including A-) Expressions towards Adequacy of Using Education Technology and B-) Adjectives to Auxiliary Personnel Sufficiency at School. Findings have made it possible to find out that teacher candidates responded at different rates to Cronbach's Alpha value of α = 0.91, which is quite reliable in this sense (Field, 2013).

A Survey on Internet Addiction Among Kick Box Athletes in terms of Demographic Factors

Mustafa KARADAĞ — 2026-07-16

Object: The relationship between the average internet use and the risky Internet behaviours of Kick Box athletes has been surveyed by socio demographic variables. Material and Method: The survey population was constituted by 2500 athletes (70 provinces, 1700 male and 800 female students) participating in Turkey Kickboxing Championships between 14-22 July 2016 in Sakarya. The sample of the survey was constituted by 243 athletes (148 male and 95 female) willing to be part of the survey. Percent (%) and frequency (f) and Pearson Chi- square analyzes were made in order to determine the demographic distributions of the individuals participating in the study. Socio-demographic data form and Young's Internet Addiction Scale (IAS) were applied to sports. According to the scores, athletes with internet addiction (IA), risky internet use (RIU) and average internet use (AIU) were statistically analyzed in terms of socio demographic and their internet usage characteristics. Findings: As the Table 2 in which the ages of participants are compared with their average internet use and risky internet use values, and Table 3 in which the genders of the participants are compared with their average internet use and risky internet use values, and Table 5 in which the sharing homes of the participants are compared with their average internet use and risky internet use values are analyzed, a significant difference p <0.05 is not detected. As the Table 4 in which the marital statuses of the participants are compared with their average internet use and risky internet use values, and Table 6 in which monthly incomes of the participants are compared with their average internet use and risky internet use values are analyzed, it is seen that there is a statistical difference and this difference is significant at p <0.05 level. Result: It has been found that the frequency of risky internet use of kick box athletes is higher among athletes who are single and have high income level than others and it has been seen that there is a significant difference between risky internet behaviours.

E-Commerce Transaction Volume of Turkey and Developments of Communication Technology

Ali KELEŞ — 2026-07-16

In this study the credit card transactions between the years 2011-2016 have been analyzed to evaluate the development in e-commerce transaction volume in our country. With this study, it has been determined that the national e-commerence transaction volume of the local credit cards has increased by %283 while the international e-commerce transaction volume has increased by %278 in last six years. On the other hand, the e-commerce transaction volume of the international credit cards’ transactions has increased by %123. This study reveals that the e-commerce volume has gradually risen in the last six years and also envisages that this tendency in rise would continue. The main reasons behind this increase are the developments in internet and communication technologies. It has been compared yearly national e-commerce transaction volume with result of “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage Survey on Households and Individuals” by conducted Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI). As a result, e-commerce transaction volume in our country is increasing in parallel to the developments in internet and communication technologies. As a result, e-commerce in our country is in a continuous increase and development trend, depending on the developments in information and communication technologies. New developments will continue to add different dimensions to e-commerce. Considering the contributions to the country's economy today, it has strategic pre-requisites to support countries' e-commerce activities and to implement technological infrastructure investments and legal regulations that will remove obstacles in front of them. Turkey should take place in the global competition race in the e-commerce field. For this, our country should take the necessary steps in the technological, strategic and legal arrangements that will contribute to the development of e-commerce and provide all the necessary support and encouragement.

Web-Based System Design for Doing Special Talent Exams Online

Talha MURATHAN, Kurbani KÜÇÜK — 2026-07-16

Technological developments in recent years indicate that much of the training and examinations will take place over the web in the near future as is the case with many inland areas. In every education and training year by special talent exams students are taken to Physical Education and Sports Education Faculty, Sports Management and Coaching and Recreation Departments that are extensions of ouruniversities of Sports Science Faculty and School of Physical Education and Sports. In these examinations, in addition to physical qualification tests such as parcour, coordination and branch, candidates' weighted high school GPA, points of high er education examination are also takenin to consideration. All the stages such as; Announcement of the examination and the phase of application, evaluation of the applications, announcement of the winning candidates and the conclusion of there gistration process are maintained manually by the jury that is formed by Faculties and Vocational Schools. Since the examinations are taking too much time for the personnel who are obliged to take the exam, a web-based online examination system has been prepared in order to minimize the errors in the process of taking, analyzing, evaluating and finalizing the data. It has been observed that the Web-Based Online Examination System, which is written in coding, is a suitable system in terms of functionality. In this study, Web-Based Online Examination System, which is developed for alleviating the work load, accelerating the process and ensuring more reliance by transfering manual processes to digital media, will be discussed. After many trials of the software it has been used successfully between the years of Educationand Teaching 2014-2016 in Special TalentExams of Ardahan University School of Physical Education and Sports School at 3 years.

Investigating the Relation betwen Secondary School Students’ Attitudes towards Information Technology and Software Class and their Academic Achievement

Mustafa ÖZGENEL, Feyza BAYDAR , Filiz ÇALIŞKAN YILMAZ — 2026-07-16

The aim of this research is to investigate the relation between secondary school student’s attitudes towards information technology and software class and their achievements. Relational screening research model was used from quantitative research methods. The research was carried out in the academic year of 2017-2018. The sample of the research is the state secondary schools affiliated to Pendik District Directorate of National Education. A stratified sample was used while the sample of the research was determined. In the sample, schools were chosen coincidentally from each socioeconomic layer separated as lower, middle and upper groups. The sample is composed of 717 middle school students. In the research, information form, attitude scale for information technology class, and success test were used. Analyzing the data correlation, regression, t-test and ANOVA were performed. The result of the research determines positively and low relation between secondary school student’s attitude towards information technology and software class and academic achievement. The attitudes of the students towards information technology and software class account for 5% of the academic achievements. It has also been found that students' attitudes towards information technology and software class differ according to gender and grade levels.

Digital Communication: Towards a New Language

Cemal SAKALLI, Diba BAHADIROĞLU — 2026-07-16

It is the first script hieroglyphs that arise from the necessity in social and ekonomic to record the numbers that are not in memory, to record the words, to make them permanent. The article that we use today and representing the sounds of natural language has taken its present case at the end of a very slow evolutionary process. At the present time , every scope of life has been mediated, the opportunities for communication have increased, and the means of digital communication have diversified. As a result of this , emotion icons (emoticones), which can be shown as relatives to hieroglyphs, have taken place in digital communication. There are three important reasons of this status. These are : the platitude of phonetic notation , the speed of digital commucation, the need to represent of speaker in communication. The most important element of the communication medium is not only the speaker and the listener ; their faces and mimics. The emotion icons that break the platitude of digital communication add the emotion and thought of the speaker to the communication environment by representing face and mimic of the speaker and listener. Since emotion icons that can also be regarded as emotional interjection, can convey to listener a lot of emotional and intellectual information about the speaker in written digital communication , provides a practical emotional opportunity in written digital comminication. In this study, emotion icons which are frequently used in today's digital communication media are studied in terms of historical development and frequency of use, some semantic distributions. The emotion icons add the mimic and gestures of the natural language to the digital writing language and reinforce the speech form of written communication. Emotion icons that got involved in article in digital communication, are able to attach to natural language to the abstract plane of the writing language. Digital communication which is the medium combining of abstract and concrete , has been added as a new form to the changing language in the digital age.

Child, Technology and Media: A Study on Early Childhood and Primary School Teachers

2026-07-16

The purpose of this study is to examine the opinions of preschool and first grade teachers on technology and media use in education and to identify the similarities and differences between these two group of teachers according to their technology and media use in education. Participants of this study were 22 first grade primary school teachers and 29 preschool teachers. The data of this study was gathered via semi-structured interview form that was formed in accordance with the opinions of field experts and the related literature. The content analysis method was used to analyze the data. As a result of the analyzes the following four themes were identified: The place of technology in education, technology use in educational setting, media and media use in eduction and social media and it’s use in education. Findings indicated that preschool teachers gave saving on time and stimulating different senses of children prominence while first grade teachers emphasized the easy access to information. While preschool teachers emphasized the importance of technology for permanent learning, primary school teachers emphasized its importance on providing equal opportunities in education and easing understanding. Related to social media use in education preschool teachers expressed that they used social media for learning different educational activities and methods while primary school teachers use social media for communicating with parents. The results of this study were discussed in accordance with the related literature and suggestions were provided related to technology and media use in early childhood education programs.

The Role of Local News Portals in Political Informing and New Media Based Urban Nationalism

Ceren YEGEN — 2026-07-16

Local press, which not only informs to the local community about many issues but also voices the problems of the them, operates with internet sites that report online news via the internet, makes city nationalism and affects the political informing today. Because today, new media-based platforms have also affected journalism in addition to many other fields, and this effect has spread to local press, which has important missions. In fact today, many local media institutions are actively using websites along with printed publications and they are carrying out local reporting services through the internet. It is also clear that local press influences the political knowledge on a local level. In addition, the excessiveness of the subjects of local government and politics in the content of local press is often debated. Being politically informed is important for voter adults as well as for young people. At this point, it is required to point out that the young people who are thought to use them intensively, can be affected by new media platforms in terms of political knowledge. Therefore, it is important and required to research the channels affecting young people in terms of being politically informed. Therefore in this study, the effect of internet sites of local newspapers which are published in the city center of Muş upon the political informing of the youth will be analyzed via an area study to be conducted with students at Muş Alparslan University for the purpose of revealing the effect of internet sites of local newspapers upon the political informing of the youth. Local newspaper sites to be examined in the study include; Mus Ovasi (Mus Plain), Mus’un Sesi (The Voice of Mus), Mus Manset (Mus Headline), Gunaydin Mus (Good Morning Mus) and 30 Nisan (30 April).