Abstract
Tentative school textbooks for “Media and Communication” which is a special subject for nurturing information literacy in elementary school were developed by faculty members. The focuses of the textbook are information utilization skills, flexible use of information in the 21st century, full use of integrated media in expression and communication, and so on. For the purpose, the learning activities are based on problem solving and cross-curricular approach. These points in the developing the textbooks made faculty members deepen their understanding of each phase of the subject. Paper surveys were conducted to know the influence of developing the textbook for faculty members and students. As a result, positive feedback from the members was observed. As for students, the ratio of positive answers about all focus points were high.
In actual lessons in the subject, students were observed to utilize multimedia information easily because of the easy-to-understand manner of the textbook. On the other hand, for the faculty members, it was not easy to actualizing problem solving approach and cross-curricular approach.
