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2005年度下期
未踏ソフトウェア創造事業 採択案件評価書
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１．担当ＰＭ
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Ａｌａｎ Kａｙ （President, Viewpoints Research
Institute）
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２．採択者氏名
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開発代表者
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Ono Eri ＜大野 恵理＞（Northern Arizona University, Doctoral Student, College of
Education ）
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共同開発者
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なし
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５．テーマ名
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Child-friendly
Visual and Auditory Instruction along with Japanese Standards
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７．テーマ概要
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This project
develops a new way to introduce Squeak to elementary schools in Japan. The
project consists of two parts: 1) a new function which will show tutorials
while children are working on their Squeak projects, and 2) development of
two sets of Squeak integrated lesson plans and video-clips of necessary
skills. The purpose of the project is to promote widespread Squeak to
regular schools in Japan.
Squeak is powerful software which requires children to acquire personal
inquiry, divergent thinking, and self-directed learning in order to
construct their knowledge. One unique aspect of the project is that it
includes pilot studies which train 15 teachers to use the project. The
results of the pilot studies not only increase the quality of the project,
but also make teachers become Squeak pioneers at their own schools.
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８．採択理由
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This proposal is a
comprehensive wide-range well thought-out approach to introducing a powerful
ideas curriculum to Japan.
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９．開発目標
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Included in summary.
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１０．進捗概要
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Included in summary.
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１１．成果
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Included in summary.
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１２．プロジェクト評価
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Eri Ono is a teacher
who is concerned with helping other teachers learn how to teach children
via constructable "powerful ideas" computer authoring systems.
Her well written report exhibits quite a bit of high quality work done
during the funding period.
She came up with a number of good ideas for
helping teachers learn, implemented and tested them. As one would expect,
she found that her ideas and media (such as short demonstration movies)
helped already "tech-savvy" teachers, but had provided much less
aid to those who were not tech-savvy. She says, "It is difficult to
determine what could have been done to reduce the anxiety of the non-savvy
teachers and to improve the unit plans." She tended to blame herself
for not succeeding with all the teachers. However, our experience indicates
that she actually was very successful, and simply ran into a deep problem
with the late-adopter teachers that everyone else has also encountered. In
other words, the learning curve for those who are not intrinsically
interested in a subject is from "years to never", and this was
out of the scope of this project.
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１３．今後の課題
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I would like to find
support for this researcher to do several further investigations along
these lines, and with more assistance from the Squeak team to integrate her
materials more deeply into the Squeak children's system.
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