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ISSN 2146‐7242 Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology Volume 13, Issue 1 January 2014 Prof. Dr. Aytekin İşman Editor‐in‐Chief Prof. Dr. Jerry WILLIS ‐ ST John Fisher University in Rochester, USA Prof. Dr. J. Ana Donaldson ‐ AECT President Editors Assist.Prof.Dr. Fahme DABAJ ‐ Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC Associate Editor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Eric Zhi ‐ Feng Liu ‐ National Central University, Taiwan Assistant Editor TOJET 01.01.2014 THE TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY January 2014 Volume 13 - Issue 1 Prof. Dr. Aytekin İşman Editor-in-Chief Editors Prof. Dr. Jerry Willis Prof. Dr. J. Ana Donaldson Assist. Prof. Dr. Fahme Dabaj Associate Editor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eric Zhi - Feng Liu Assistant Editor ISSN: 2146 - 7242 Indexed by Education Resources Information Center - ERIC TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – January 2014, volume 13 Issue 1 Copyright © THE TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY All rights reserved. No part of TOJET's articles may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrival system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in TURKEY Contact Address: Prof. Dr. Aytekin İŞMAN TOJET, Editor in Chief Sakarya-Turkey Copyright © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – January 2014, volume 13 Issue 1 Message from the Editor-in-Chief Dear Colleagues, According to Teich ( 1977), the close relationship between technological and social change itself helps to explain why any given technological development is likely to have both positive and negative effects. These effects are as follows: 1. Technological advance creates a new opportunity to achieve some desired goal. 2. This requires alterations in social organization if advantage is to be taken of the new opportunity. 3. Which means that the functions of existing social structures will be interfered with. 4. With the result that other goals which were served by the older structures are now only inadequately achieved (Teich, 1977). Consider three views on the role of technology in society. First, technology is an unalloyed blessing for man and society. Technology is seen as the mother of all progress, as holding the solution to most our social problems, as helping to liberate the individual from the clutches of a complex and highly organized society, and as the source of permanent prosperity; in short, as the promise of utopia in our time (Teich, 1977). Second, technology is an unmitigated curse. Technology is said to rob people of their jobs, their privacy, their participation in democratic government, and even, in the end, their dignity as human beings. Teich also notes that technology is seen autonomous and uncontrollable, as fostering materialistic values and as destructive of religion, as bringing about a technocratic society and bureaucratic state in which the individual is increasingly submerged, and as treating, ultimately, to position nature and blow up the world (Teich, 1977). A third view of technology differs from the previous characterizations as ultimately good or bad. It argues that technology as such is not worthy of special notice, because it has been well organized as a factor in social change at least since the Industrial Revolution. It is unlikely that the social effects of computers will be nearly so traumatic as the introduction of the factory system in 18th-century England, because 1) research has shown that there has been no significant change in recent decades in the time period between invention and widespread adoption of new technology, and 2) improved communications and higher levels of education make people much more adaptable to new ideas and to new social reforms required by technology (Teich, 1977). A society should respond to the opportunities produced by technology for productive and positive development. Unfortunately, societies sometimes hinder people from developing or utilizing a particular technology. For example, high level decision makers may think that the cost of a technological development is too high, or companies may conclude that some technologies will not be favorable for maximum profits. Therefore, there is an interaction between technology or technique and society. We can see this effect anywhere in our society. For example, computer development aids society to organize work, association, company, and others to save time and money. It means that technology provides society with new opportunities to design all things well. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (TOJET) is a refereed international online journal sponsored by Sakarya University, Governor State University and TASET (The Association of Science, Education and Technology). The main mission of TOJET is to diffuse how to use technology in education all over the World. TOJET greatly appreciates the valuable contributions of the editorial board who have acted as reviewers for one or more submissions of this issue. TOJET's reviewers are drawn quite widely from all over the world with a concentration for this issue on the Europa, USA, Asia, Turkey, and others. TOJET is interested in academic articles on the issues of educational technology. The articles should talk about using educational technology in classroom, how educational technology impacts learning, and the perspectives of students, teachers, school administrators and communities on educational technology. These articles will help researchers to increase the quality of both theory and practice in the field of educational technology. TOJET will organize the 14th International Educational Technology Conference (IETC 2014) on September 03- 05, 2014 at AIC in Chicago, USA. The web page of IETC is “www.ietc.net”. Call for Papers Copyright © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – January 2014, volume 13 Issue 1 TOJET invites article contributions. Submitted articles should be about all aspects of educational technology and may address assessment, attitudes, beliefs, curriculum, equity, research, translating research into practice, learning theory, alternative conceptions, socio-cultural issues, special populations, and integration of subjects. The articles should also discuss the perspectives of students, teachers, school administrators and communities. The articles should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to TOJET. All authors can submit their manuscripts to [email protected] for the next issues. January, 01, 2014 Editor Prof. Dr. Aytekin İŞMAN Sakarya University - Turkey Jerry Willis, Marist College, USA Copyright © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – January 2014, volume 13 Issue 1 Editors Prof. Dr. Aytekin İŞMAN - Sakarya University, Turkey Prof. Dr. Jerry WILLIS - ST John Fisher University in Rochester, USA Prof. Dr. J. Ana Donaldson - AECT President Associate Editor Assist.Prof.Dr. Fahme DABAJ - Eastern Mediterranean University, TRNC Assistant Editor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Eric Zhi - Feng Liu - National Central University, Taiwan Editorial Board Prof.Dr. Adnan Baki - Karadeniz Teknik University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Ahmet Pehlivan - Cyprus International University, TRNC Prof.Dr. Ahmet Zeki Saka - Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Akif Ergin - Başkent University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Ali Al Mazari - Alfaisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Prof.Dr. Ali Ekrem Özkul - Anadolu University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Ali Paşa Ayas - Karadeniz Teknik University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Ali Rıza Akadeniz - Karadeniz Teknik University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Antoinette J. Muntjewerff - University of Amsterdam Prof.Dr. Arif Altun - Hacettepe University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Arvind Singhal - University of Texas, USA Prof.Dr. Asaf Varol - Fırat University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Aytekin İşman - Sakarya University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Brent G. Wilson - University of Colorado at Denver, USA Prof.Dr. Buket Akkoyunlu - Hacettepe University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Cengiz Hakan Aydın - Anadolu University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Chang-Shing Lee - National University of Tainan, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Charlotte N. (Lani) Gunawardena - University of New Mexico, USA Prof.Dr. Chi - Jui Lien - National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Chih - Kai Chang - National University of Taiwan, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Chin-Min Hsiung - National pingtung university, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Colin Latchem - Open Learning Consultant, Australia Prof.Dr. Colleen Sexton - Governor State University, USA Prof.Dr. Demetrios G. Sampson - University of Piraeus, Greece Prof.Dr. Dimiter G. Velev - University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria Prof.Dr. Don M. Flournoy - Ohio University, USA Prof.Dr. Dongsik Kim - Hanyang University, South Korea Prof.Dr. Enver Tahir Rıza - Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Eralp Altun - Ege University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Feng-chiao Chung - National pingtung university, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Ferhan Odabaşı - Anadolu University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Finland Cheng - National pingtung university, Taiwan Prof.Dr. Fong Soon Fook - Uniiversiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Prof.Dr. Francine Shuchat Shaw - New York University, USA Prof.Dr. Galip Akaydın - Hacettepe University, Turkey Prof.Dr. Gianni Viardo Vercelli - University of Genova, Italy Prof.Dr. Gwo - Dong Chen - National Central University