Technology has been developing rapidly in our age and it has influenced every aspect of our lives as well as education and teaching. In our country, the use of technology for education is considered to be the means of catching up with developed countries by improving quality and a great deal of investment is made on this field.
The purpose of this research is to determine the perspectives of candidate teachers towards how educational technology affects classroom management, what its advantages and disadvantages are, what sort of classroom management challenges they may encounter, and so on.. The research was conducted on 336 students from the Department of Primary Education at Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education. The personal information form and the questionnaire form prepared by the researcher were used in this study as data collection tools. According to the research, candidate teachers support the use of technology in education; they think that the use of technology affects classroom management, the use of technology is a factor that incurs concerns and the use of technology must be very well known to achieve good classroom management. Additionally, they state that the use of technology for education influences the communication and the atmosphere in the class, it partially obstructs classroom control, undesired behaviors may vary between classrooms where technology is used or not used, and the number of students referred to the disciplinary committee will increase.