聴覚障害者との共生を目指す教育方法のデザインと評価: 小学校2年生を対象にした事例

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In this paper, we present the results of both classroom lessons and Web-based learning for Japanese manual alphabets (YUBIMOJI) to ordinary elementary school children. So far, we have developed an easy-to-use edutainment system: Practice! YUBIMOJI AIUEO (PYA). The objectives of PYA are to promote basic expressions of Kana characters (AIUEO) of Japanese manual alphabets, and to give the experience of communication with deaf people to ordinary children at elementary school age. In our previous work, we have shown that PYA is the effective educational materials to increase the awareness of pupil concerning the universal design. Extending the results, we develop a new framework for a classroom design. For the purpose, we have improved PYA to PYA-WEB. In this paper, we have carried out series of intensive experiments at classrooms of Sumiyoshi Elementary School and Web-learning (7 or 8 years old; 59 subjects). The results are summarized as follows: 1) The greediness for learning at starting point is important to motivate learning and practice in order to let the students feel accomplished; 2) PYA-WEB is effective to increase the capability of YUBIMOJI reading; 3) PYA-WEB users with the higher motivation keep the learning effect the longer and they get a YUBIMOJI skill the more, in proportion to the access time; and 4) After the children mastered YUBIMOJI, the communication lessons with deaf people are successful. These results have suggested that PYA-WEB has encouraged children's self learning and enhanced the communication skill. The YUBIMOJI lessons with the proposed classroom design and PYA-WEB would be useful to construct a inclusive society.