Research on Integrating Network Technology into Schools and Changing Teachers' Awareness

本研究的目的如下。(1)在推动网络技术融入学校的过程中，如何改变教师在教育中使用网络的意识？(2)为了促进网络的使用，我们应该为师生准备什么样的修改？我们与n.i.i的几个机构合作策划了一个教育项目，我们帮助学生能够相互交流意见并分析项目。研究表明，许多教师承认在课堂上使用网络（电子邮件和WWW等）对他们来说很重要。许多教师认为在教育中积极使用网络对学生非常有用，因此应该支持教师和学生在课堂上积极使用信息技术。我们制作了网页，让合作学校的学生可以使用，并自由分享资讯。此外，我们注意到有许多教师如果能轻松地使用信息技术，就能有效地设计他们的课程，我们为不熟悉技术的教师开发了一个教育计划。我们研究了网络技术在课堂上的效果与教师意识之间的关系。我们提出了一种新的方法来评估信息工具在课堂上的贡献。研究结果表明，教师发现学生使用视频会议等技术与外国学生交换意见非常重要，他们也发现使用这些系统作为视频会议工具彼此沟通是有效的，这就产生了一个新的问题。那是一笔通信费用。我们讨论了通过视频会议促进定期联系所产生的新问题。我们提出了一个解决方案，通过博弈论的方法从成本分配问题应用到教育问题。

The purpose of this research was as follows.(1) How teachers' awareness of network use in education could be changed when integrating network technology into schools was promoted?(2) What kind of modifications should we prepare for teachers and students to promote the network use?We planned an educational program in collaboration with several institutions in N.I.and we assisted students in able to exchange their opinions with one another and analyzed the program.1. It was shown that many teachers admitted it was significant for them to use the network (e-mail and WWW, etc.) in a class.2. Many teachers thought that active network use in education was very useful to students, and it was followed that teachers and students should be supported to use information technology actively in a class. We made homepages so that students of partner schools could use them and share information freely.Furthermore we focused on the fact that there were many teachers who could design their classes effectively if they could use information technology easily, and we developed an educational program for teachers who were unfamiliar with with technology.3. We studied the relationship between the effect of network technology in a class and teachers' awareness. We proposed a new way to assess contribution of the information tool in a class.4. The result of the research showed that teachers found it was very important for students to exchange opinions with foreign students using technology such as video conference, and they also found it was effective to use these systems as a video-conferencing tool to communicate with one another, which resulted in a new problem. That was a correspondence expense. We discussed the new problem which would be resulted from promoting regular contact using video conference.We proposed a solution, which was applied from cost allocation problems through a game theoretical approach into educational issues.