In this study, we investigate into the contents of web pages for school support in Japanese public libraries. Taking account of the present investigation, the general trends of the contents of the web pages are presented. Furthermore, the significance of the web pages for school support and the appropriate web pages are considered. Also, the contents model of web pages for school support, which is composed of five kinds of contents, is proposed. That is to say, these five kinds of contents are as follows, ① school support services, ② resource sharing, ③ library programs, ④ information resources on teaching support and the study of teaching materials for school teachers and staffs of school,⑤ information resources on learning support, reading support, and the support to improve information literacy for students.

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This paper aims to report the relationship between some consciousness of programming in high school student’s programming and the creative attitudes. At three public senior high schools. a survey was conducted of 226 first grade public senior high school students. As a result, students with a high creative attitude of “flexibility,” “analytical problem solving,” “entrepreneurship,” “cooperation,” “perseverance” and “imagination” have significantly higher consciousness in programming at 5 percent level. However, gender difference was seen in this tendency, and the level of girls was significantly lower than that of boys both in interest for programming, and the creative attitudes. From the above, it was suggested that it is necessary to construct a practical strategy such as multiple tracking of subject matter, taking into consideration the creative attitudes as a student's readiness and consciousness by gender, in programming education that promotes creativity.

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This study is to develop an interactive English word learning software using artificial intelligence (AI), and to examine the effect for infants. The used hardware is the robot shape which interacts with the infant by recognizing the pronunciation of the conversation with the attached microphone, and communicating with the cloud using the tablet terminal as a display and processing device. The developed interactive English word learning software allows infants to learn pronunciation and listening to English words (simple phrases) on the theme of fruit, Olympics, animals, seasons, weather, play, food, plant growth, and cars. As a result of the practical use of these teaching materials, infants showed a high interest in the ability to interact with robots. Through this practice, it was confirmed that activities familiar to English were possible by using interactive English learning software.

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