Abstract
Japanese Ministry of Education conducted a national survey to grasp the degree of information abilities of fifth graders of elementary schools and second graders of junior high schools. Approximately 3,000 students became the subjects. As the results, huge difference in the skill of keyboard, low successful ratio of complex questions such as connect and integrate information, and significant correlation between the abilities and frequency of ICT use were revealed. Significant correlation between the abilities and frequency of information education requiring complex was also found out.
These findings leads various directions of research in educational media. The first is reexamination of validity of classification and sequence of eight components in three domains of objectives of information education. The second one is development of curriculum, how to run the curriculum and instructional methods to foster thinking, examining and expressing. The third is to uncover the relationship between information abilities and using ICT including tablet PC in schools. The last is accumulation of experience of ICT use in students' home.
