Barriers to information and communication technologies integration into elementary schools in Turkey

Abstract

With the fact that integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into teaching and learning to improve and update the education provided to younger generations is important, Turkish government has made considerable investment in acquiring hardware and software for schools, connecting them to the Internet and helping educators improve their ICT-related knowledge and skills. However, it is important to periodically assess the actual situation of ICT in educational practice in order not only to account for the financial investments, but also to inform decisions about the content and directions of future policies. The purpose of this article is to present the perceptions of classroom teachers and school principals in Turkey regarding barriers to ICT integration into teaching-learning process. © 2007 Asian Network for Scientific Information.