Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Cite as/ Atıf: Şimşek, Ş. (2022). Türkçe ders kitaplarında dijital yetkinlik. Turkish Studies - Education, 17(3), 469- 484. https://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.57919 Received/Geliş: 08 March/Mart 2022 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 25 June/Haziran 2022 Published/Yayın: 30 June/Haziran 2022 © Yazar(lar)/Author(s) | CC BY- NC 4.0 Türkçe Ders Kitaplarında Dijital Yetkinlik Digital Competence in Turkish Textbooks Şahin Şimşek * Abstract: The rapid development of science and technology, the easy accessibility and widespread use of devices such as mobile phones, computers, tablets, which enable people to easily access information and socialize, have determined people's priorities and preferences, and human needs have changed in this direction in the 21st century. Curriculum has been updated in parallel with the changing human needs. It is important to what extent digital competencies are reflected in the updated programs and textbooks. Digital competence, which consists of the sum of several skills in itself, can be briefly defined as the ability to use information and communication technologies in a safe and critical manner. The aim of this study is to determine how much digital competence mentioned in the 2019 Turkish Language Curriculum is included in secondary school Turkish textbooks. The study is a survey model, one of the qualitative research methods, and document analysis technique was used to obtain the data. The obtained data were interpreted by content analysis. Although digitalization and digital competencies are mentioned in the updated programs, it has been observed that digital competencies are not sufficiently included in the textbooks, and digital competencies in a small number are related to digital literacy and digital security, and other sub-skills are not mentioned except for a single text. In particular, the Covid-19 epidemic, which is one of the biggest epidemics in the world, and the subsequent realization of education have shown that individuals who can use digital technologies are more advantageous than those who cannot. Curriculums updated according to today's human needs should be reflected in the textbooks, and the digital competencies required to train the human model required by the age should not be limited to the Information Technologies course. In all the courses that the student attends, he/she should encounter the whole of knowledge and skills required of the digital age, from simple to complex as appropriate. In order to gain the digital competencies mentioned in the Turkish Language Curriculum, digital competencies in the dimensions of text, activities, preparation questions, preparation for the next lesson, and visuals should be taught in Turkish textbooks, and these skills should be tried to be gained. Structured Abstract: Thanks to the rapidly developing communication technologies, it has become easier to access information and our age has been described as the information age. One of the human competencies required by the information age is to be able to use new technologies and to quickly access accurate and secure information from appropriate sources. Developing communication technologies, the high demand for these technologies, the fact that computers make human life easier, and the transfer of information to digital environments, the execution of transactions by public institutions and private institutions with citizens * Doç. Dr., Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Türkçe ve Sosyal Bilimler Eğitimi Bölümü Assoc. Prof. Dr., Kastamonu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education 0000-0003-4433-0004 ssimsek@kastamonu.edu.tr