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An Analysis of Fields and Scientific Literacy Content Elements of Scientific Reports in a Popular Portal Site in Korea (국내 포탈사이트 과학 기사 분야와 과학적 소양 내용 요소 분석)

  • Lee, Myeong-Je
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.338-345
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze science fields and content elements of the science reports in a web portal site of Republic of Korea in view of scientific literacy. The main results of the analysis on the 679 reports sampled in a year are as follows. First, 506 reports in 46 fields were identified. Reports about technology and earth science occupies 16% respectively, and life science occupies 13%, medical science 4%, chemistry, company, others 3% and physics 1%. Almost reports show technology as associate field. Second, the frequency rate of reports including scientific literacy content elements is 52%. Reports related to 'physics' and 'chemistry' as dominant fields show relatively high rate in scientific literacy elements. The element, 'social context' is included in about 96% of the reports. Both 'data and statistics' and 'application' show relatively low rate and large gaps according to dominant fields. A few concluding remarks and proposals follow from these results. First, as almost science reports show the nature of integrated science, scientific literacy acquisition through science reports in internet requires the integrated scientific view. Especially most science reports includes the contents related to technology or medical science, so the point of view in the science-technological literacy is required. Second, the scientific literacy content elements in reports show various rates according to dominant fields. Therefore, science reports need to complement the deficient content elements to carry out the role of science reports as scientific literacy sources.

Analyzing the Levels of ICT Literacy for Elementary and Middle School Students (초·중학생의 ICT 리터러시 수준 분석)

  • Nam, Chang Woo;Ahn, Seonghun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.525-535
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences of elementary and middle school students' ICT literacy. For this purpose, this study implemented ICT literacy test for students in 250 elementary- and 250 middle schools. The main categories of assessment include two components of 'literacy ability elements' and 'literacy content elements.' The main results are as follows. In terms of city size, Large City had the highest overall scores of ICT literacy test for both elementary and middle school students among the three groups(Large City, Middle/Small City, and Eup(Middle Town)/Myeon(Small Town)). Also, in terms of gender, female students had relatively higher overall scores of ICT literacy test than male students for both elementary and middle school levels.

A Study on Composition and Utilization of Digital Literacy Education elements Using Open Contents (오픈 콘텐츠를 활용한 디지털 리터러시 학습 요소 구성과 활용)

  • Hong, Myunghui;Lee, Soonyoung
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.711-721
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    • 2018
  • The development of artificial intelligence technology and the shift to a software-driven society are raising the need for digital literacy education on how to access, understand, use, create and share new open content in a variety of sustainable open content. At this point in time, this paper defines the digital literacy as the subliteracy concept for data, tools, and device elements. It is defined as a concept that includes cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and is stratified by computer literacy, ICT literacy, and information literacy. Open content is also defined as teaching-learning materials that can be used and shared freely by anyone, such as the Open Education Resource (OER) and the Open Access movement. Based on the two definitions, a three-step strategy for digital literacy education was developed to select open content in the digital environment, followed by a digital literacy education plan, and finally, an education frame to foster digital literacy capabilities.

The Effects of Elementary and Middle School Students' Computer Use and Information(Computer) Educational Experiences on their ICT Literacy Levels (초·중학생의 컴퓨터 활용 및 정보(컴퓨터) 교육 경험이 ICT 리터러시 수준에 미치는 영향)

  • Nam, Chang Woo;Ahn, Seonghun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.18-32
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences of elementary and middle school students' ICT literacy by their computer use and information(computer) educational experiences. For this purpose, this study implemented ICT literacy test for students in 300 elementary (4th~6th)- and 300 middle(7th~9th) schools in 2015. The ICT literacy test was composed of two components of 'literacy ability elements' and 'literacy content elements.' The main results of this study are as follows. First, in both of elementary and middle schools, there are positive relationships between students' 'computer use at home' and 'computer outside school,' and their ICT literacy test scores, but their extreme computer use affected their ICT literacy test scores negatively. Second, in both of elementary and middle schools, there are positive relationships between students' information(computer) educational experiences and their ICT literacy test scores.

Digital Content to Improve Artificial Intelligence Literacy Ability

  • Han, Sun Gwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.12
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to design and develop effective digital contents to improve the ability for artificial intelligence literacy. First, we defined AI literacy and analyzed the competencies required for artificial intelligence literacy. After selecting the educational elements for AI ability, we composed 10 educational programs. To confirm the appropriateness of designed contents, we verified through content validity test by 10 experts. The CVI value was over 0.75, which was highly valid. The developed content was installed on the online system and applied to 55 AI beginners for 4 weeks. The learners showed a positive result of at least 3.85 in the items of content difficulty, understanding, effectiveness, and learning challenge. As a result of this analysis, we can see that the developed content is positive for helping many people understand AI and improving AI literacy.

Analysis of ICT literacy levels of elementary and middle school students according to their skill sets (초.중학생의 영재분야에 따른 ICT 리터러시 능력 수준 분석)

  • Lee, SeungJin;Kim, JaMee;Lee, WonGyu
    • The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2013
  • For the increasingly complicated and technology dependent 21st century, ICT literacy is being emphasized by education authorities as a key ability needed to succeed in a knowledge-based society. Accordingly, since 2007, several studies have been conducted to measure the ICT literacy levels of students. This study aimed at analyzing how ICT literacy levels vary according to students' skill sets from the viewpoint of educational convenience. To fulfill this goal, the ICT literacy abilities of 167 elementary students and 159 middle school students (all receiving education at "gifted students" education centers) were compared with the following results. First, elementary students displayed differences with regards to 'computer and network' and 'information society and ethics' among the content elements, and 'critical mind' and 'information communication' among capability elements according to their skill sets. Second, middle school students displayed differences with regards to 'information society and ethics' and 'information organization and creation' elements according to their skill sets. The significance of this study lies in the fact that it measured the ICT literacy levels of --and made suggestions for education to-- students specially gifted in information, science and mathematics rather than general students.

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An Educational Needs Analysis of Home Economics Teachers for Food Literacy Education in Secondary School Home Economics (중등 가정과 푸드리터러시 함양 식생활교육에 대한 가정과 교사의 교육 요구도 분석)

  • Song, Yunmi;Lee, Kyung Won
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.41-59
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    • 2023
  • This study aimed at analyzing the educational needs of home economics teachers for food literacy cultivation education in secondary school home economics. A total of 192 home economics teachers were surveyed about their perceptions of importance and performance of food literacy education content categories and elements, and their priorities were identified. Among the 38 content elements presented, home economics teachers recognized that the current performance level was significantly lower than that of the importance over 34 content elements. Based on the Borich educational needs assessment and the Locus for Focus Model, we identified five content elements with 'very high' educational needs ('food security/food sovereignty', 'reducing food-related waste', 'food waste management and recycling', 'food-related waste recycling', and 'country of origin information'), and four content elements with 'high' educational needs ('genetically modified food', 'ethical food consumption', 'food additives', and 'eco-friendly agricultural products'). These results indicate that dietary education in secondary school home economics should emphasize both the production and disposal of food. The findings of this study suggest implications for the needs for a new dietary education in secondary school home economics that allows students to learn all stages of food system. These results can also be used as a basis for dietary education for cultivating food literacy in secondary school home economics education.

A Study on the Development of Curriculum Content Structure for Information Literacy Education (정보활용교육을 위한 교과 내용 체계 개발 연구)

  • Park, Juhyeon;Kang, Bong-suk;Lee, Byeong-Kee
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.52 no.1
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    • pp.229-254
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to construct contents of elementary and secondary education which will be included in the information literacy education and to obtain basic information and implications necessary for developing new textbooks. For this study, three types of previously developed textbooks for information literacy education were analyzed, and curriculum content structure, and textbook structure of the draft version of the textbook 'Media and Information Life' developed in 2019-2020 were analyzed. The analysis results are as follows. the information literacy education textbook applied the information problem solving process model and contained the contents of print, and digital media and the media literacy necessary for democratic citizens, but it was necessary to add the types of libraries and media in sequence. Second, library, media, information, and reading literacy were major learning elements that made up the contents of the information literacy curriculum. Third, the "media and information life" textbook needed to present subject competencies, generalized knowledge, content system, and achievement standards in accordance with the system of the 2015 revised curriculum. In addition, social discussion was needed to derive the name of the information literacy curriculum.

Analysis of Scientific Literacy on Korean Science Curriculum of Earth Science Contents (교육과정 변천에 따른 지구과학 영역의 과학적 소양 분석)

  • Jo, Mi-Sun;Jeong, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.269-275
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    • 2016
  • This study is conducted to search about changing earth science contents influenced by the scientific literacy from the 7th curriculum to the 2015 revised curriculum. Earth science area is divided into astronomy, geology, meteorology and oceanography contents. Among the elements of scientific literacy, the contents were analyzed focusing on STS elements. In the astronomical and meteorological content areas, there were aspects of scientific literacy in all periods from the 7th to the 2015 revised curriculum. Except for the 2007 revised curriculum in the geological area and the 7th curriculum in the oceanographic content area, the aspects of scientific literacy appeared at all times. It is emphasized the usefulness of science and technology in the astronomical content area and the use of science in everyday life in geological and meteorological content area. In the oceanographic content area, it is emphasized that content of science related social issue such as resource shortage and environmental pollution. This study can be extended to the fields of physics, chemistry and life science, we suggest to inquire the scientific literacy as a integrated science.

A Study on the Language of Content Area for Improving Academic Literacy of KSL Learners: Focusing on History Texts (KSL 학습자의 학업 문식성 신장을 위한 교과 언어 교육 내용 연구 -역사 교과 텍스트를 중심으로-)

  • Shin, Beomsuk
    • Journal of Korean language education
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.117-144
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the linguistic elements that can promote academic literacy in terms of content-based instructions for KSL learners. In order to study the characteristics of learning languages for subjects, focus was given to the framework of systematic functional linguistics that has been extensively used in ELL teaching and learning research in the United States and Australia. History, which is taught in all classes and classified as a required course, was the subject of analysis. From the history curriculum, the elementary school level texts "Social Studies 5-2" and "Social Studies 6-1" were chosen for the analysis. Based on the results, we can come to the following conclusions. First, history textbooks are divided into narrative and analytical explanatory sub-genres based on their content, and there are differences in the factors that need to be focused on to find the main information. Second, the vocabulary of history textbooks should focus on the use of verbs which comprehend material processes. Particularly, learners should pay attention to the differences in meaning between low-frequency expressions. We hope that the results of this study will have a positive effect on history subject learning for learners in the "Adaptive Korean Course" and will help establish direction in terms of building curriculum contents for KSL learners.