Development of educational program for advanced IoT engineers

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K03103
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09070:Educational technology-related
• Research Institution: International College of Technology, Kanazawa
• Principal Investigator: Minamide Akiyuki 国際高等専門学校, 電気電子工学科, 教授 (20259849)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: プログラミング教育 / 小学校低学年 / 計算機的思考

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study began with the aim of developing an educational program to foster the next generation of advanced IoT engineers, but the planned education could not be implemented as it was due to a significant lack of skills among the students. Therefore, we felt the need to consider an educational program including programming education in elementary schools, and developed new programming materials using stickers and scanners that could be used for programming education in the lower grades of elementary schools. Demonstration tests were conducted at 24 elementary schools (about 1,600 students), and the effectiveness of the educational material system was confirmed. However, the physics experiment that was to be conducted in the final stage of the project was not possible due to the spread of COVID19 infection, and a prototype system using holography was developed instead.

Free Research Field

教育工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

次世代の高度な IoT 技術者を育成するためには、小学校から高等教育機関までの情報教育の流れを踏まえて全体的に教育手法を検討していく必要性がある。本研究において全体を調査した結果、特に小学校低学年の情報教育（計算機的思考教育）の遅れが顕著であることが分かった。これは小学校の教諭がプログラミングを未経験であること、授業で使用する適切な教材がないことに起因する。本研究では、小学校低学年児童が授業内に計算機的思考を学べる教材システムを開発したことで、低学年児童の授業を小学校教諭が簡単にできるようにした。今後、本教材が広まれば小学校低学年の情報教育に大いに貢献できると思われる。