Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the effects and the practical tips of utilizing tablet PC (TPC) for 「practice at home」 learning of home economics in elementary school. So, the learning practices in two elementary schools were carried out, and the interview investigation and the questioner survey and the pupils' works were analyzed. The results indicated that the use of TPC's camera applications and note applications was more effective than worksheets (WS) in the learning of 「practice at home」 for the pupils, particularly those who had difficulty in writing and in summarizing. However, due to the fact that there were a definite number of pupils who found that WS were easier to record with, it is necessary to enable them to freely choose between WS and TPC. We also learned that the pupils had found TPC easy and enjoyable to record with, easy and enjoyable to make presentations with and easy to understand classmates' presentations done with it. Moreover the results also suggested that the use of TPC tended to reduce the linguistic activities that relied on description, the classmate's presentations had the potential to improve the quality in the practice of their classmates, and such presentations might be promoted by the use of TPC.
