标题：Investigation of the Relationship Between Secondary School Teachers' Purposes of Using Social Media and Their Levels of Informal Learning with Smartphones
摘要：Purpose: This study has two main purposes, which are to reveal teachers 'views on social media use and their levels of informal learning with smartphones, and to determine the relationship between teachers' social media usage purposes and their levels of informal learning with smartphones.Design/Methodology/Approach: Explanatory mixed design was used in the survey made using a survey model and mixed methods. The study's population consists of 1,198 teachers working in secondary schools in Kars Province, whereas the study's sample group consists of 303 secondary school teachers selected using the multi-stage stratified purposeful sampling method. “Purpose of Using Social Media Scale,” “Informal Learning Activities with Smartphones Scale,” and the “Semi-Structured Interview Form for Opinions of Teachers on Social Media and Informal Learning” were used as data collection tools in the study. One-Way Variance Analysis, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis H test as well as t test for frequency, percentage, relative coefficient of variable, and arithmetic mean independent samples were used to analyze the study's quantitative data. The study's qualitative data were resolved using descriptive and content analysis.Findings: The results of the study showed that teachers' use of social media for content-sharing purposes and the level of informal learning with smartphones decreased as their age increased and that their use of social media for communication and content-sharing purposes and the level of informal learning with smartphones decreased as their seniority increased. It was determined that the use of social media for research, to share content, and to initiate communication decreased as the time spent using social media decreased. It was also seen that all the teachers who participated in the study transferred and used the videos, information, and documents they saw on social media in their lessons, that they learned informal information from social media, and that they used their smartphones in informal learning.Highlights: In the light of the results of this study, it can be suggested to create a social media platform that enables all stakeholders of education to take part in every stage of the formation, and that makes it possible to work educationally with more advanced features. According to EBA and to evaluate the work done in a reliable and valid way.
