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A Study on the Development of Student Evaluation Standards for Unplugged Computing

  • Jun, Woochun
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 2022
  • With the development of information and communication technology, information literacy and utilization are emerging as basic skills necessary for modern people. Accordingly, information education is becoming a basic literacy education for a nation. Unplugged computing is in the spotlight as a major educational method of information education. The main advantage of unplugged computing is that it is easy to convey basic theories or principles of computer science to students through play activities without the help of special information devices such as computers and tablet PCs. However, studies on student evaluation on unplugged computing have been very insufficient. In this study, students' evaluation standards are developed to maximize the educational effect of unplugged computing. The evaluation standards consist of four areas: participation, interest, satisfaction, and understanding of concepts. The results of this study can be used as a basic study for student evaluation of unplugged computing in the future.

A Study on Information Literacy Education for Enhancing Computational Thinking (컴퓨팅 사고력 향상을 위한 정보소양교육에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyungmin
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2017
  • In the fourth industrial revolution, the government has established a policy to cultivate the creative convergent talent with software literacy in order to cultivate human resources leading the economy. Therefore, software education based on computational thinking is being adopted in liberal arts courses in universities. However it would be damaged the fundamental objectives for increasing computational thinking by a weighted stress of students to learn programming of software education. In this paper, we proposed a teaching method that can improve computing thinking through information literacy education which can be directly applied in practice as a way to reduce the burden on the programming learning of software education. Through this paper, it was found that information literacy education can improve the computing thinking as well as the computing ability by making it possible to construct enough knowledge, analysis and efficient procedures for problems.

Analysis on the International Comparison of Computer Education in Schools (국외 컴퓨터 교육과정의 변화 분석)

  • Sung, Jung Sook;Kim, Hyeoncheol
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2015
  • A whole society has become software-driven and each independent fields has become convergence based on computing as the new digital economy era has come. This change affect computational literacy using computational thinking is emphasized the importance as the core competence for the future living. It means that supply of manpower with understanding software principle will decide the fate of the country. For this reason, each country are reinforcing computer science education or computing education. In this paper, we researched and analysed on new global trends of computer education in school especially focused on national curriculum and policy.

Ethics-Literacy Curriculum Modeling for Ethical Practice of 5G Information Professionals (5G 정보환경 정보전문가를 위한 윤리 리터러시 교육과정 모형연구)

  • Yoo, Sarah
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.139-166
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    • 2022
  • Ethical Issues increase when people engage in smart technological systems such as 5G, IoT, Cloud computing services and AI applications. Range of this research is comparison of various literacy concepts and its ethical issues in considering of 5G features and UX. 86 research papers and reports which have been published within the recent 5 years (2017-2022), relating the research subject, are investigated and analyzed. Two results show that various literacies can be grouped into four areas and that some of common issues among those areas as well as unique issues of each area are identified. Based on the literature analysis, an Operational Definition of Ethics-Literacy is presented and the model of ethics-literacy curriculum supporting ethical behavior of 5G information professionals is developed and suggested.

A Study on Digital Literacy Education for Adults in US Public Libraries (미국 공공도서관의 성인을 위한 디지털 리터러시 교육에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Youngmi
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.359-380
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    • 2018
  • In the digital society where ICT technology is highly developed, digital literacy is an essential competence for working and living. Developed countries around the world have been working hard to solve the digital divide and improve digital literacy. In this paper, we investigated and analyzed the case of US public libraries for improvement of digital literacy of adults including the older people. To do this, we analyzed the educational program type of digital literacy, education method, and the contents of the program, focusing on the best practices libraries of the program. Many of the educational programs still related to basic computer and Internet technologies, and training programs on Micro Office, e-mail, social media, and smartphone and tablet computing were also high. The most frequent and daily training method was informal point of use, and the content and level of education appeared to be very diverse. For digital literacy training, the librarians of the public library considered librarians' digital competence and retraining to be the most important, and the library facility and the latest equipment to be suitable for the operation of the digital literacy education program.

Design-Based Learning for Computational Thinking (Computational Thinking 향상을 위한 디자인기반 학습)

  • Kim, Soohwan;Han, Seonkwan
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we studied a design-based learning for Computational Thinking in Computational Literacy. The design-based learning for computational thinking in computational literacy education started from a MIT media laboratory in 2011. We revised the design-based learning and applied it to educational field. We considered educational strategies and derived the implications, after teaching fourth grade gifted students. Moreover we conducted and analyzed a questionnaire survey, observations and interviews. As the result, the design-based learning in computational literacy is effective for creative computational thinking that students create their ideas and make a meaningful artifacts from it. We expect that this study provides the basic data to apply a design-based learning for computational thinking to Computer education.

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A Research for Digital Literacy Education Methodlogies based on Mobile Devices (모바일 기기 기반의 디지털 리터러시 교육 방안에 대한 연구)

  • Hong, Myunghui;Lee, Soonyoung
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.107-115
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    • 2020
  • The computing environment is rapidly changing to mobile device base, with the development of computer technology. Until now, digital literacy education has been based on desktop PC education, but it is time to change it into literacy education suitable for mobile environment. In this paper, we propose a mobile-based digital literacy MoDL (Mobile Device Digital Literacy). MoDL proposes three phases. One is Mobile Based Digital Environment (MoDE), which builds a mobile digital environment, seconds is Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) class method when using it for education. Finally, MoDLI (MoDL Instruction) for learning mobile literacy is presented step by step. To verify the validity of the proposed, eight experts were surveyed so that the Content Validity Ratio was calculated. As a result, CVR was ensured in all items except for the applicability of MoDLI.

Digital Literacy of Middle School Students for Informatics Education (정보 교육을 위한 중학생의 디지털 리터러시 수준 분석)

  • Choi, Jeongwon
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2022
  • In order for effective informatics education it is premisd that students have digital literacy. But the absence of informatics education for about 10 years has make students have low digital literacy, and as a result, there are many voices in the school field that it is difficult to have a smooth class. Therefore in this study, the elements of digital literacy required to efficiently operate the 2015 middle school informatics curriculum and digital literacy of middle school students was analyzed. As a result, the students showed biased use of the computing devices and software the frequently use. They were inexperienced in using hardware necessary for learning, understanding basic terms for online collaboration, understanding operating systems, information searching, and producing documents. This study is meaningful in that it provides basic data that serves as a guideline for the direction of digital literacy education for effective informatics education.

The Effects of a Physical Computing Convergence Class to the Science Exploration Experiment Subject of High School on the SW Education Recognition and the Convergence Literacy (고등학교 과학탐구실험 교과에 피지컬 컴퓨팅을 융합한 수업이 SW 교육 인식 및 융합 소양에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Yura;Kim, Taeyoung
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2020
  • In the era of the 4th industrial revolution and convergence, various discussions and studies have been conducted to develop future social talents, and through this, the need for creative convergence talents is increasing. In line with the change to a software-oriented society, countries around the world are trying to strengthen SW education, but high school students' awareness of the necessity of information subject and SW education that is the center of convergence is insufficient. Therefore, opportunities for convergence of the information subject and various fields should be provided. In this study, information education was converged to the science exploration experiment subject to construct an educational program that can develop creative convergence, and a convergence class using physical computing were applied to high school students for 9 hours. As a result of the experiment, the recognition of SW education of the experimental group was improved, and it was confirmed that the learner's convergence literacy of the experimental group was statistically different from that of the control group that conducted the general science experiment class.

Analysis of Instruction Materials for Physical Computing from the Perspective of Computer and Information Literacy (컴퓨터 및 정보 리터러시 관점에서의 피지컬 컴퓨팅 교육 교재 분석)

  • Jung, Hana;Jhun, Youngseok
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.473-489
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    • 2018
  • Computer and Information Literacy(CIL) is one of Key Competences in 21st century. Many countries, including Korea, have adopted related contents in their national curriculum for conducting software education. With this movement, many book-type instruction materials for software education have been developed in Korea. However, it is scarce to find researches that evaluate the instruction materials from the perspective of CIL. In this study, we selected 4 instruction materials which were distributed by government with 'SW centered society' web site as well as were developed to teach physical computing for elementary students. Also, we analyzed if they can foster students' CIL. First of all, the evaluation framework was developed based on 'The Manual for Authorized and Approved Textbook' and 'The 2018 ICILS(International Computer and Information Literacy Study) Assessment Framework'. Then, 12 school teachers who have professional insight of software education evaluated the 4 instruction materials with the framework. Averaging the score given by evaluators, we determined that which instruction materials were superior or not. Finally, we figured out the characteristics of superior and inferior instructional materials. Based on the results of this study, we suggested implications for developing instruction materials for physical computing education to build students' CIL.