Abstract
Information education in higher education began half a century ago in Japan to train information professionals. Currently, it is necessary to provide information education to everyone to consider the future with the rapid changes of information society. In this paper, the history of information from prehistoric times to the present is reviewed, and the basics of information education to develop human resources foreseeing the future information society is considered, focusing on categorization of information heritage museums in the world and their utilization as suitable for learning contents and school types. In particular, the utilization of information heritage museums in school education is considered after information transmission of numbers drawn on murals and of letters and numbers, visual calculations accompanying the movement of objects, calculation tools such as abacuses, simplification of calculations using complements, mechanical calculators, electrical and electronic computers such as mainframes, various servers, personal computers, and notebook computers, and information use in an intelligent information society are categorized.
