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Exploring Teachers' Perceptions and Beliefs about the Acceptance of Smart Education and Preschoolers' Digital Literacy (교사들의 스마트 교육 수용과 유아 디지털 리터러시에 대한 인식 탐구)

  • Lee, Eun-Jeong;Lee, Jae-Shin
    • Informatization Policy
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.64-83
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    • 2016
  • Although the government mandated classroom use of smart technology, there exist obstacles to adapting smart technology as a means of educational tools in class. This study aims to explore the preconditions for integrating smart technology and early childhood education. To meet this end, this study investigates preschool teachers' perceptions about the possible benefits or negative impacts of using smart media on child education. Results show that teachers have negative rather than positive perceptions and attitudes toward preschoolers' use of smart media, which implies that rendering teachers have positive impression on smart education is most important for fostering smart education.

Cyber Learning Program of a University Library's Information Literacy Education: Its Development and Course Management (도서관 정보이용교육: Cyber 강좌 개발과 실제 운영)

  • Lee, Choon-Shil
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.5-26
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    • 2005
  • Sookmyung Women's University Library developed a Cyber Learning Program for Information Literacy Education in the Fall semester of 2004. The program was enforced as a pass/fail prerequisite of the "Reading & Writing", a compulsory course for the first-year students. The paper describes why and how the university reached to the decision to initiate such a program. It identifies the factors which contributed to the early success of the program by analyzing the contents development process and the actual course management process. Suggestions for further developments is made by analyzing the technical and procedural difficulties faced using the Learning Management System(LMS).

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A Study on Digital Media Literacy Growth Possibility for Children: Focusing on Lacan's Desire Theory (아동을 위한 디지털미디어 리터러시 성장성 연구: 라캉의 욕망이론을 중심으로)

  • Hwangbo, Wonju;Wui, Minyoung
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.420-428
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    • 2017
  • In recent trends, the first age of digital device usage has been significantly getting low and the using frequencies for younger generation have been gradually increasing. Also, while there were more negative opinions of this trend in the past, the new idea is changing to more needs of training and approaches for children's sound using guidelines for digital device. In fact, people believe the new generation will face more advanced future, called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The purpose of the paper is first to explain about the Jacques Lacan's concept of desire theory in order to understand the human's unconscious level through His desire theory. Second, the paper identifies how this unconscious level is affected to ethical aspects of new generations whose unconscious level are frequently and early exposed to digital media. Lastly, the paper will present the necessity of digital literacy education as well as future direction. Furthermore, the paper review for what is the ethics and positive guidelines of digital media for children who will become the future citizens in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

A study on the utilization ability of Instructional media based on NCS for Young Child's Preliminary Teachers

  • Ha, Yan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2017
  • This thesis progressed research on the improvements of NCS multimedia utilization for preliminary teachers. A national module has not been developed yet in terms of child education, so this thesis suggests a curriculum according to the courses taught for freshmen and sophomores of K University Child Education majors. To lessen the burden of tremendous work and classes, provide motivation and interest in learning and maximize the effect, this thesis provides NCS based curriculum. It expects to improve task performance of teachers and help them with better skills to make class materials using up-to-date multimedia, regardless of the computer literacy of preliminary teachers. This thesis does prior research on the abilities to make use of computers and understand the level of computer literacy. Then it suggests NCS based curriculum goals and its performance standards to utilize task-suitable software. It aims to enable efficient multimedia usage, and optimize the learning efficiency of education linked to Nuri precesses.

Educational Effects of Interdisciplinary Creativity Promotion Program Based on Movie-Assisted Flipped Learning of creativity and STEAM literacy indexes in College Students (영화를 활용한 플립러닝 기반의 학제 간 융합 창의성 증진 프로그램이 대학생의 창의성과 융합인재소양에 미치는 효과)

  • Kim, Byung-Man;Youn, Jeong-Jin;Kim, Seoung-Won
    • Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate how flip learning based interdisciplinary fusion creativity promotion program using movie is effective for university students creativity and fusion talent literacy. To do this, we conducted a total of 15 sessions for a total of 89 students from 44 college students and 45 non - attendance college students who attended the "Creative Fusion Creative Encounters with Film" course at Busan Metropolitan City. The collected data were analyzed by independent sample t-test using SPSS 23.0 program. The results of this study are as follows. First, flip learning based interdisciplinary fusion creativity enhancement program using movie was significant in the order of patience / attachment, humor, self - confidence, imagination, openness, independence, and curiosity in the creativity sub - domain of college students. Second, flip learning - based interdisciplinary convergence creativity enhancement programs using movies were found to have a significant effect in the order of convergence, care, communication, and creativity in the sub - areas of university students' literacy achievement. The findings of the study proved the educational effects of the interdisciplinary creativity promotion program that was based on movie-assisted flipped learning, and this study is expected to suggest some of the right directions for education-based interdisciplinary research and to give some suggestions on that.

The Composition of Curriculum to Improve ICT Instructional Media Competency of Early Childhood Teacher (유아교사의 ICT 수업매체 역량 강화를 위한 교육과정 구성 방안)

  • Lee, Young-Mi
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.588-596
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to propose an ICT-oriented teacher curriculum in order to improve early childhood teacher's competency using ICT instructional media. To this end, a survey was conducted to investigate the importance and current level of early childhood teacher's competency. After identifying the necessity of ICT instructional media competency, the contents of an ICT-oriented teacher curriculum were designed. A survey of teacher competency among 207 teachers showed the highest educational need for ICT instructional media competency. In addition, ICT-based teacher curriculum was classified into ICT literacy education and ICT utilization education based on the analysis results of sub-indexes on ICT instructional media competency. Each part was hierarchized into three levels of awareness, application, and spread according to the teacher's competency level and the educational contents were suggested based on the goals set for each level. In this study, it consisted of ICT literacy education, including understanding educational policy related to ICT utilization, understanding the goals and assessment of the ICT curriculum and ICT utilization education, including the use of teaching and learning methods, application of digital technology, ICT learning environment building and management for developing teacher professionalism related to ICT instructional media.

Literacy and Breast Cancer Prevention: a Population-Based Study from Iran

  • Harirchi, Iraj;Azary, Saeedeh;Montazeri, Ali;Mousavi, Seyed Mohsen;Sedighi, Zahra;Keshtmand, Gelavizh;Zarinkolah, Zahra;Soltani, S.M. Amin Khalifeh
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.3927-3930
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    • 2012
  • Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of death from cancer among women. Evidence suggests that early diagnosis and screening interventions might help to improve outcomes. This population-based study was conducted to determine breast cancer awareness and screening behavior among Iranian women and to examine its association with women's literacy. The study was carried out in two provinces, with 1,477,045 population, located in central and eastern part of Iran. Overall, 770 women were studied. Of these, 482 (62.7%) were literate and 287 (37.3%) were not. The results obtained from the data analysis indicated that there was a significant difference between literate and illiterate women. Further analysis of the data using logistic regression showed that literacy was an important contributing factor for breast cancer prevention behavior. The findings suggest that in order to improve women's health and breast cancer outcomes providing equal educational opportunities for women seems necessary.

Development of Educational Program using Soil Seed Bank for Promoting Ecological Literacy (생태적 소양 함양을 위한 토양 종자 은행 교육 프로그램의 개발)

  • Ju, Eun Jeong;Kim, Jae Geun
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.284-297
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    • 2012
  • We developed an educational program using soil seed bank for promoting ecological literacy of children. The initial program was based on the modification of scientific methods used by ecologists. A pilot application was conducted to 4th~6th grade students. In that result, the program was most effective to 4th grade students in terms of ecological knowledge and attitude. Observation of plants in outdoor was the most interesting activity and soil seed bank experiment was the most useful activity to the students. The educational period from late March to early November was too long to keep interest for participants. In the final program, we suggested 3 months and 2 weeks education period (from the 4th week of March to the first week of July) and the 4th grade students as a target. The program consisted of 7 activities, which are "Beginning the soil seed banks observation", "Comparing plant community in each soil seed bank", "My friends, sprout", "How do you come here?", "Finding the hided plants in my school garden", "Why did the soil seed banks change?", and "Inquiring about relationship between plants and their environments". These activities include the process of student's participation of sampling and setting soil seed banks around their school, and observing and identifying the seedlings. Through these activities, students can understand the concept of soil seed banks, develop their ecological knowledge, eco-centric attitude, and ecological sensibility and inquire about the relationship between vegetation from soil seed banks and their environments.

Mental Health Literacy of the Korean Public: A Comparison between Depression and Schizophrenia (한국 성인의 정신건강역량 : 우울증과 정신분열병을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Sun Hae;Suh, Jin Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.127-158
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of the study was to identify the level of mental health literacy of the Korean public and to suggest implications of prevention and early intervention for depression and schizophrenia. A household survey was conducted on a stratified sample of community residents from 80 survey clusters in Seoul and the surrounding province who were 18-74 years of age (N=1,653). The data analysis revealed that the percentages of respondents who correctly identified symptoms of depression or schizophrenia were similar, 35.2% and 33.5% respectively. On the other hand, there were differences between the two illnesses in terms of respondents' perceptions of beliefs on causes and usefulness of various methods to address respective symptoms, and sources of mental health information. The authors compared the findings with the results found in other countries, and suggested policy and practice implications for community mental health prevention in Korea.

Who has a high level of food literacy, and who does not?: a qualitative study of college students in South Korea

  • Hyelim Yoo;Eunbin Jo;Hyeongyeong Lee;Eunji Ko;Eunjin Jang;Jiwon Sim;Sohyun Park
    • Nutrition Research and Practice
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.1155-1169
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    • 2023
  • BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Unhealthy food choices among young adults are common globally, and the incidence of chronic diseases, such as obesity, is rising. Food literacy (FL) is important for improving and maintaining individual health in a rapidly changing food environment and can form the basis for following a sustainable diet. Therefore, it is essential to improve FL among young adults, particularly college students, who are in the formative years of their lifelong food habits. This study examined the facilitators and barriers of FL and related dietary behavior among college students in South Korea. SUBJECTS/METHODS: This study recruited 25 college students with different residence types using convenience and snowball sampling. In-person, telephone, and video interviews were conducted from March to November 2021. The interview data were analyzed using framework analysis based on the socio-ecological model. RESULTS: At the individual level, prior good experiences with food were the most frequently mentioned facilitator. In contrast, the major barriers were a lack of knowledge, financial hardship, irregular schedules, and academic stress. At the interpersonal level, the influences of family and peers, such as early exposure to healthy eating habits and opportunities to have easy accessibility to farms and farming, are major facilitators, but the lack of a sense of community was the major barrier. At the environmental level, the major barriers were unfavorable food environments at home and in neighborhoods, such as the absence of kitchens in housing and large packaging of produce at markets. CONCLUSIONS: Many factors affected the students' FL and related healthy eating practices. These findings suggest that a campus-based FL program should be developed by reflecting on these facilitators and barriers.