2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Teaching Materials and Tools for Education of Information Science for Elementary, Junior High and High School Students

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23650515
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Kyushu University
Principal Investigator	TAKEDA Masayuki 九州大学, システム情報科学研究科(研究院, 教授 (50216909)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	科学教育 / 情報基礎 / 情報の理 / 教育工学
Research Abstract	Information Science is a science that pursues the truth behind information phenomena whereas Physics is a science that pursues the truth behind natural phenomena. In order to widely spread essential knowledge on Information Science throughout people, we involved in developing teaching material and tools named "Digi-tama", aimed at elementary, junior high and high school students. First, we re-examined unplugged teaching tools we developed so far, and refined them. On the other hand, we also developed a set of Web applications substituting for the unplugged tools. This enables us to minimize time involved in activities with unplugged tools in our lectures, which are often time-consuming. We evaluated and improved the developed teaching materials and tools in visiting lectures at elementary and high schools.

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