Abstract:
Education and technology are two basic elements in order to obtain skilled labor. Education provides a continuous improvement with willing and permanent changes in the abilities and behaviors of an individual. Technology is a discipline that provides the link between science and practice and occurs in a certain aim and order that are target - driven. Modern education gives an education based on the practice that makes the students active by using new technologies. The productivity of improving the workforce based on the skilled and sectoral expectations also depends on this. To use education technology provides a permanent education because the person first teaches and after he/she obtains the ability of practice in the effective and permanent learning. For this reason, to learn something by making and living is the most effective method. Infrastructure, lack of technological equipment, the level of instructors can cause to fall behind the technological development in the service and production sector of vocational and technical schools in Turkey. Vocational and technical schools cannot achieve their education objectives based on the practice, because they cannot use the education technology properly. As a result of this, the loss of skilled labor that has the ability of using the information technologies that is important for the development of a country can occur. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
