English abstract
This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of the schools' principals in North Al Batinah towards utilizing modern technology in education, and to examine the affects of gender on the principals' attitudes toward using educational technology. The sample of the study consists of 50 principals (males and females). The tool of the study is questionnaire which was developed to answer the questions. The questions consist of items distributed on three aspects that include, the advantages of modern educational technologies, its challenges and the methods of utilizing such technologies, and the methods of utilizing the technology. Content validity was measured, as well as internal consistency which measured the questionnaire reliability and the Cronbach's alpha was r =0.79.
The most important findings of the study are that the school principals have got high altitudes of modern education technologies utilizations. Also, there are no significant statistical differences between male and female principals in their attitudes of utilizing modern educational technology in education. The most important challenges in utilizing such techniques are providing educational devices in all classrooms in consistent manner, having classroom dedicated to education technologies in the schools, and having educational technologies specialist.
The most important recommendations of the study are providing the educational technology, such as various devices in the classrooms, preparing courses and training workshops for principals related to utilizing educational technologies findings of the modern innovations therein and increasing budget allocated to providing modern educational technologies in the schools.
