Education of Information Science as Scientific Literacy

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560092
• 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院, 教授 (50216909)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 情報の理 / 科学教育 / 情報学基礎

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Information Science is a science that pursues the truth behind information phenomena whereas Physics is a science that pursues the truth behind natural phenomena. Essential knowledge on Information Science can be considered as Scientific Literacy for people living in the information society. We have involved in developing teaching material and tools, where some tools are unplugged and others are plugged. We used our teaching materials and tools in University Lectures and improved them based on feedbacks. We also developed new sets of teaching materials and tools as Web applications and new sets of unplugged tools by exploiting 3D printers.

Free Research Field

情報科学