The Determınation of Secondary School Students’ Metaphors about the Internet Concept

The aim of this research is to assess the elementary school second grade students’ metaphors that they develop. The results of the research indicate that the students have developed positive images about the internet. Internet was expressed as a source of application by the primary school students and they likened the internet to an object (abascus, bulb, usb, book etc.), to a person (clever person, father-mother, scholar, philosopher etc), to a source of information (clever library, encyclopedia, tree of information, the salad of information etc), to an animal (to a donkey, to a creature that knows everything, the ants etc.), to a machine ( machine of information) or to an ocean.