METHOD OF TRAINING K-12 STUDENTS SKILLS TO CONVEY INFORMATION TO OTHERS IN THE WEB2.0 SOCIETY

摘要

We describe our training method for educating children inrninformation skills they need for living in the Web2.0rnsociety. We defined an information and communicationrntechnology (ICT) standard for K-12 students andrndeveloped two incremental training methods to meet thisrnstandard. The particular skills we evaluated wererninformation conveying skills.rnThe training method has two unique points. First wernintroduced a new collaborative knowledge-sharing tool,rncalled the multidatabase module, to help guide students tornproperly express and share their knowledge. We also usedrnactual worksheets and tags (Post-it notes) to enablernstudents to comment on other students' work throughrnface-to-face collaboration.rnBy blending face-to-face and virtual collaborativernactivities, we show that ICT beginners can rapidly makernprogress.rnWe assessed the effectiveness of this method by usingrnit to train 240 first year junior high students. Over 90% ofrnthe students, considered as beginners in terms of Internetrnand PC skills, learned how to convey informationrneffectively over the web.