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Mehmet Güzel & Naif Kara
The New Media Use of Gifted
Students and Its Impact on
Academic Achievement
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Journal of Youth Researches • July 2017 • 5(12) • 124-128
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 05 June 2017
Accepted
| 24 June 2017
R E V I E W
* Assist Prof., Sakarya University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism, Sakarya,
** PhD Student, Sakarya University, Social Sciences Institute, Communication Sciences, Sakarya,
Introduction
The use of new media is increasing day by day along with improvements in information
and communication technologies. Rapid developments in information technologies and
new media affect many fields and force these fields to change. Education can be accep-
ted as one of these fields. Turkey is trying to keep pace with these developments through
Fatih Project (Ekici and Yılmaz, 2013, p.318), which aims to integrate information and
communication technologies with education and sophisticates education with the use of
smart boards, tablets and computers in schools. Efforts to increase the quality of formal
education through the facilities of information and communication technologies, beyond
traditional teaching methods, undoubtedly include the education of gifted students and
this constitute an important dimension of education. It is of particular importance to utilize
Naif Kara
**
Mehmet Güzel
*
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