"Internet Usage Habits and Internet Usage in Educational Studies of Vocational School Students"

Abstract

Abstract:Internet is the easiest way to access information. It provides positive contributions to individual and surroundings in learning and information era. At this point, the answers of the questions: ‚How do young people use internet and how much do they use internet for their education?‛ come into prominence. In former researches, although internet has been shown to be used for educational purposes, there exists statistical differences in many topics as; internet usage ratios, gender usage habits, time spent on internet. Our aim was to determine vocational school students’ internet usage habits and internet usage in educational studies. 388 Inonu University Health Services Vocational School students’ of 2016-2017 academic year were included to this descriptive type of study. We performed survey method. A questionnaire prepared by researchers and Young Internet Addiction Test- Short Form (YIAT-SF) was used. We found internet addiction rate as 3.4% and the average internet usage was 5 hours daily. When students were asked to enumerate the internet sites they use, the result was: social media, news sites, movie and series sites, educational and informational content sites, play sites, e-mail, shopping sites, and sexual content sites in order of usage preference. Social media was preferred by 79.4% in the first place, educational content sites were preferred in the first place by 5.7%. The second most frequently used sites were movie and series sites (22.8%). Educational/informational content (20.2%) sites were the fifth preferred sites in the preference order.