Examine How Students Use Information and Communication Technology in their Leisure Time
Gholamreza Bakhtiari Ramezani, Mahdieh Zamani Afshar · 2015
The main objective of the present study was to examine how the use of information and communication technology in leisure time of junior school male students of Qarchak area. This research is a descriptive practical study that was conducted in a survey. Population of the study composed of all guidance school male students and 64 individuals of them were selected using a stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using the researcher made questionnaire which its reliability and validity had been approved. Nonparametric Chi-square, Wilcoxon and Friedman test was used to analyze the data. Research results indicated that the student are welcome to information and communication technologies to spend their leisure time and in the meantime, the use of television, mobile phone has the highest rate of use and radio and satellite has the lowest rates. Also , the results showed the students know partially the tools of information and communication technology, but knowledge of information and communication technology tools has not found yet properly its position and importance and the families don’t aware of position of this technology in the development of their children in the field of their education and growth character. About usage during the academic year and during the summer, there is a significant relationship between the use of computers, television, satellite, mobile phones and mobile audio and video devices (MP4-MP3), and the use rate of tools of computer, TV, Satellite TV, Telephone mobile and mobile audio and video devices (MP4-MP3) increases during summer more than during academic year. Also, most students had fun using information and communication technology tools and next the training use has been mentioned, and students for leisure time are interested more in computers, televisions and mobile phones. At the end it became clear that information and communication technologies could create some favorable changes in people.