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	%0 Journal Article
	%A Ahmet Baytak and  Cenk Akbıyık
	%D 2010
	%J International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 42, 2010
	%T Classroom Teacher Candidates' Definitions and Beliefs about Technology Integration
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/4781
	%V 42
	%X The purpose of this paper is to present teacher candidates- beliefs about technology integration in their field of study, which is classroom teaching in this case. The study was conducted among the first year students in college of education in Turkey. This study is based on both quantitative and qualitative data. For the quantitative data- Likert scale was used and for the qualitative data pattern matching was employed. The primary findings showed that students defined educational technology as technologies that improve learning with their visual, easily accessible, and productive features. They also believe these technologies could affect their future students- learning positively.

	%P 640 - 643