Japan Journal of Educational Technology
Online ISSN : 2432-6038
Print ISSN : 0385-5236
Analysis of Children's Web Browsing Process on ICT Educationin Elementary Schools
Hidefumi KlKUCHIKanji AKAHORI
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2003 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 143-153

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This paper describes an analysis of children's Web browsing behavior during Information Communication Technology (ICT) classes at an elementary school. There are huge numbers of information on the Web. ICT literacy is requested to children, because they have to discover the topic by themselves from the Web. Children's Web browsing processes were specifically analyzed. As results, the following findings were picked up. 1) The children easily mastered a concept and operation of Web browsing. 2) Children used a "back" button of a browser frequently. This method reduces cognitive load on the children's Web navigation. 3) Results revealed that younger children viewed pages for significantly shorter periods of time when compared to older children. Moreover, this article describes a problem of Web browsing in ICT class.
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