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Although there are extensive studies on how the Internet is used by teachers as an instructional tool in social studies classes, less work has been done to explain how students themselves use and interact with Internet sources to study for social studies classes. The purpose of this research is to investigate how Turkish middle school students use the Internet to study and do their social studies homework. Fifty-seven middle school students completed an open ended questionnaire in one of Northern Turkey’s larger cities. The results show that this group of Turkish middle school students use the Internet extensively, both to gather information for their homework and for non-academic purposes such as playing games, using social media and downloading music and films.  \nIntroduction  \nThe tremendous growth in Internet technologies has brought email, web pages, online services, specialized electronic networks, and software and global information resources to our homes as well as to schools (Bennett, Bishop, Dalgarno, Waycott, & Kennedy, 2012; Friedman & Heafner, 2008; Rice & Wilson, 1999; Rose & Fernlund, 1997; Vanfossen & Shiveley, 2003; Zhang & Quintana, 2012) . PEW Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project’s data shows that 80 % of American adults currently have Internet access either at home or on smartphones (Zickuhr & Smith, 2013) . Similarly, there is a steady increase in the number of Turkish households with Internet access, with 50% reporting connection to the Internet (Turkish Statistical Agency, 2013) . Accordingly, Internet access in schools has increased greatly in recent years. Virtually all schools in the United States (Wells & Lewis, 2006) and 93 % of computers located in the classroom have Internet access (Gray, Thomas, & Lewis, 2010). According to data provided by the Turkish Ministry of National Education, all high schools and 98% of elementary schools in Turkey have high-speed Internet access somewhere in their buildings (Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı, 2012) .  \nThe increasing availability of the Internet in schools has triggered the curiosity of scholars studying the role of the Internet’s potential role in developing more constructive and student-centered models of social studies education (Saye, 2002). Interacting with a wide variety of resources with diverse qualities and authenticities promotes students’critical thinking, problem solving, authentic experiences, and decision making about real social problems (Ehman, 2002; Saye, 2002; White, 2002). While leading social studies education  \n* This work was supported by the Scientific Research Project Coordination Unit of Istanbul University, Project Number YADOP 21296  \nMehmet, 2014 Canadian Social Studies, Volume 47, No. 1  \njournals such as Theory and Research in Social Education, Social Education, and Social Studies and Young Learner have published technology themed issues in recent years (Friedman & VanFossen, 2010; Mason Bolick, 2002), very little research explores the actual use of the Internet by students in the social studies classroom. Instead, the early literature on this issue mostly focuses on convincing teachers about the value of the Internet and how teachers can use it in the social studies classroom (Friedman & VanFossen, 2010) .  \nThese studies gave few details on the methods students use to gather and process information from the Internet to complete their social studies homework or projects, leaving a gap in the literature on the use of the Internet in the social studies classroom and the ","cbCainCe1M79DQ94","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainCe1M79DQ94","pdf",236520,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Internet access in schools\n## Research gap\n# Literature Review\n## How the Internet is used in social studies education","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of this research?\",\"answer\":\"To investigate how Turkish middle school students use the Internet to study social studies and to complete their social studies homework.\"},{\"question\":\"How many students participated, and how was data collected?\",\"answer\":\"Fifty-seven middle school students completed an open-ended questionnaire in one of Northern Turkey’s larger cities.\"},{\"question\":\"What did the results show about students’ Internet use?\",\"answer\":\"Students used the Internet extensively for homework-related information gathering and for non-academic purposes such as games, social media, and downloading music and films.\"}]","How Turkish Middle School Students Use the Internet to Study Social Studies | PDF",1792085346,43]