Developing and Evaluating a Learning Media to Transfer Historical Causations to Solving Modern Social Issues

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26750076
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Ikejiri Ryohei 東京大学, 大学院情報学環, 特任助教 (40711031)
• Research Collaborator: SUMIKAWA Yasunobu 東京理科大学, 理工学部情報科学科, 助教 (70756303)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 歴史学習 / 類推 / 転移 / システム開発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I develop a learning media that can dynamically prepare for historical causations being similar to authentic situation in modern social issues and that prompt to transfer historical causations to solving modern social issues. First, I identify the 13 categories that characterize both modern society and historical causations by reviewing previous research. Second, I develop a learning media, "History Time Machine", using matrix operation and text classification based on the historical database with the categories to propose historical causations according to the degree of similarity of the specific modern issues appearing in the news daily. As a result of the effect verification, it is showed that this learning media can prompt to view authentic social issues appearing in the news daily from new angles.

Free Research Field

教育工学