Obstacles at Integration of Schools into Information and Communication Technologies by taking into consideration the Opinions of the Teachers and Principles of Primary and Secondary Schools in Turkey

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have also affected educational institutions. Due to its importance in society, education should be adapted promptly to ICTs .As such; this would be an important step to implicate the possible obstacles in the integration of schools to ICT and to take the required preventive measures. The rationale underlying this study will hopefully help in gaining better perspective to overcome the obstacles for the integration of the schools in Turkey into ICTs. For this purpose, we consulted teachers and principles in primary education. The “School Survey of Obstacles in Integration of the Schools and ICT”, was designed by the researcher and used in the present study. The survey was administered to 1564 persons in 214 schools. Mean was 2.242 and standard deviation was .524 for the entire group of participants of the study. These figures correspond to “Serious obstacle” as the point intervals coded according to the alternatives. Accordi...