A Study On Improving Information Processing Abilities Based On PBL

Abstract

This study examined an instruction method for the improvement of information processing abilities in elementary school students. Current elementary students are required to develop information processing abilities to create new knowledge for this digital age. There is, however, a shortage of instruction strategies for these information processing abilities.This research proposes a method for teaching information processing abilities based on a problem-based learning model, and was tested with elementary students. The students developed an improved ability to create new knowledge and to present relationships with information through the process of problem solving. This study performed experimental research by comparing pre-and post-tests with twenty-three fifth grade elementary students over the course of eight months. This study produced a remarkable improvement in information selection, information reliability, information classification, information analysis, information comparison, and information internalization. This study presents an improved methodology for the teaching of information processing abilities.Keywords: Problem based learning, information processing ability, blended learning INTRODUCTION Because of the development of information engineering, the twenty-first century is being called the Knowledge-Based Society. The lifespan of information and technology is shortened, and it becomes difficult to use information that we learned in school; therefore, the ability to choose appropriate knowledge and re-compose it is needed in authentic problem situations (Evensen, Hmelo, 2000; Jonassen, 2000). Educators find new teaching methods by reflecting on existing school-based teaching methods to meet the demands of the times. One of these new teaching methods is the Problem Based Learning (PBL).To put it concretely, PBL uses authentic problems drawn from the learners' life experiences. It increases the interrelationships of learning materials and allows students to develop a higher degree of thinking ability using in-depth interaction, concrete experience, and clue-compared traditional learning methods used in the course (Barrows, 1994). It is more useful to select knowledge and information by personal individuality or thought than to simply memorize what is provided to them. Students should have more than simply a quantity of knowledge; that is, 'How much you know?' Instead, information processing abilities -that is, 'Can you make new knowledge using information?' -are what we should be developing. The difficulty is that computer classes are taught as extracurricular activities, and ICT education isn't taught in every school. In this situation, ICT education does not provide concrete examples and ways to improve 'Information Processing Abilities' because it is taught in literacy training classes.The purpose of this study is to improve information processing abilities through the solving of problems concerned with students' situations using the computer. To improve information processing abilities, t...

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