Students’ Views on the Use of Technology in Geography Course

Abstract

Use of technology in education enables students to be motivated and eager to participate in the lesson and is also a more effective tool in increasing motivation, encouraging students to the lesson and understanding the sub-ject. The aim of this study is to determine the views of secondary school students on the use of technology in geography lessons. Qualitative re-search method was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were car-ried out with 32 students who took geography lessons in Kazakhstan dur-ing the 2018-2019 academic year. The semi-structured interview form de-veloped within the scope of this research was used as a data collection tool. Results of the study showed that secondary school students found tech-nology effective and funny to use in geography lessons. Projections, com-puters, tablets and smart phones were specified by the students as useful technological tools for teaching geography. Results of the study were dis-cussed with relevant literature and important implications for further re-search and practices were presented.

Teaching and Learning foundation of the elective course "Cultural Geography"

“…Knowledge of the subject and subject methodology requires the expansion of the general worldview of the geography teacher. This is about a love of geographic science and the teaching profession, the desire to be in continuous search for new ideas, interesting facts, personal experiences, using this as the potential subject matter, and ways of traveling (Bagila et al, 2019;Agranovich et al, 2019;Nurbol et al, 2020).…”