ATTITUDE OF PUPIL TEACHERS TOWARDS USING CYBER RESOURCES

In the last two decades, rapid developments in information technology, such as the Internet, have made considerable and dramatic impact on contemporary educational practice. For example, the Web-based teaching and learning where educators integrate the cyber resources into instructional practice can not only provide learners with distant, interactive, broad, individualized and inquiry-oriented learning activities, but also promote their knowledge construction and meaningful learning. As the cyber resources are broadly used for educational purposes, pupil teachers may have more rich experiences of utilizing the cyber resources. However, while students have increasingly more opportunities to utilize the Internet to enhance their learning outcomes, studies about the nature of learners' Web use have not kept pace with their usage of the Internet. As a result, the nature of students' Web use, such as their perceptions, attitudes and self-efficacy toward the Internet, should be highlighted by educational researchers.