Studes on Networking of Learning Community

本研究的主要目标是：(1)开发支持学习社区网络化的系统；(2)在学校引入计算机，宣传儿童的教育，支持儿童的自由表达。为了目标(1)，我们开发了一个由物理、生物、生理学、电子学、计算机等领域的研究生、研究人员和青年教授组成的网络系统，该系统结合了小学生(Kariyoda先生在东京都信野小学的班级)和由根科学俱乐部的青年科学人员组成的网络系统。对于目标(2)，我们将一台多媒体个人电脑(Macintosh Performa)引入Freet教育的一个特殊班级(田中先生在东京Hoya第二小学的班级)，以帮助孩子们自由写作、绘画和制作画册。孩子们与年轻科学家的交流是从孩子们关于他们日常生活的问题开始的，直到孩子们和科学家们相遇才成功。此外，回答孩子们的问题也不是那么容易，因为他们的问题一开始并不是很“科学”。儿童和科学家都应该学会在进行科学研究时正确地进行沟通。弗雷内特的孩子们很容易适应电脑来表达他们的作品。通过电子邮件与卡里亚多的班级交换作品也相当成功。

Major goals of this research are ; (1) Development of the system supporting networking of learning community, and (2) Introducing computers in a school preacticing C.Freinet's education, supporting children's free expressions.For goal (1), we developed a network system conbining a elementary school children (Mr. Kariyoda's class at shin-no Elementary School, Minato-ku, Tokyo) and young scientcits in Yugen Science Club, consisting of graduate students, researchers, and young prfrssors in a variery of fields, such as physics, biology, physiology, electronics, computer, and so on. For goal (2), we introduced a multimedia personal computer (Macintosh Performa) to a special class for Freinet education (Mr. Tanaka's class at the Second Hoya Elementary School, Hoya, Tokyo) to assist children's free writing, drawing, and making albums.Results of our research may be summarized as follows. The children's communications with young scientists, initiated from children's questions on their everday life, had not been successful, until the children and scientists met each other. Moreover, it was not so easy to "answer" children's questions, because their questions were not cltearly "scientific" at the beginning. Children and Scientists both should have learned to communicate properly for sientific investigations. Freinet children adapted themselves quite easily to the computer for expressing their works. Exchange of their works with Kariyado's class through e-mail was also quite successful.