One of the educational objectives of information studies is the education of information literacy. We fear that this object might be misunderstood simply as a computer skills education. Some causes of this misunderstanding are considered in the surrounding circumstances of the information studies, e. g. lack of parental academic discipline, entrance examination for University, etc. It is shown that practical training seems to be overemphasized in the information studies. We consider that this trend might also lead to the misunderstanding of the information studies. In the last section, one practical lesson is introduced which may deal with this trend. The lecture is intentionally separated from the practical training in this lesson.

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To date, based on my experience of “modified web−based teaching”, topics that are to be taught at information processing classes of universities can be divided into two categories；some of them have to be taught by teachers themselves, and the others can to be taught by the assistants under teachers’ direction.What are exactly to be taught as fundamental skills of information processing at information processing classes of universities, based on my practice and experience, are the application technique by which students apply the “literacy” in the information processing to their majors. The former category of the topics, which I mentioned above, consists of the application technique of the “literacy” in the information processing to one's academism. And it gives the real value and the necessity to the information processing classes to be taught at no other than universities.According to the latter category I mentioned above, we have to organize the inevitable and suitable curriculum for the information processing classes at universities, taking much on the application technique of the “literacy” in the information processing to one's academism, as what comes after mere information literacy classes.

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In this paper, we present a review of the three phases of the information education system in Hirosaki University's general education curriculum. Through the transition, we have encountered several problems, such as, misfits between the offered classes and students’ expectation, shortage of teaching staff, and lack of students’ motivation. We found that most of these problems stem largely from the biased idea that some computer specialists should conduct information education. Based of the analysis, we present a better system for information education, which organically unites computer skills and wide−ranging knowledge about information.

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The collaboration between “Information” and “English” is extremely important as students, in order to process English information on the computer, must learn common elements in dealing with Japanese and English text and peculiar elements to English. The purpose of this paper is to investigate computer processing of English text in “Information” and “English” textbooks and analyse the linkage between the two subjects. The study examined all of the 156 textbooks and has found that there are only few computer activities to process English text and that the contents and the timings of the activities may require adjustments between the subjects.

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I continued the practice which utilizes an Internet as the means of the alternating current between children and the local resident.When using e−mail and a BBS and so on through this practice, it noticed the fact that there are a lot of children who can not tell its opinion and question, question to the partner by expressing them accurately.Therefore, I utilized an Internet and told opinion and question to the partner accurately and studied the way of bringing up the ability for the discussion to be able to be done.“The online debate system” was the result of this research and practiced using it.The child, the teacher and the guardian in five elementary school in Hachioji City participated and did practice with four times to 2 years.Through the class practice of 2 years, it confirmed the thing that “the logically idea, expressing” thing is important especially. Also, it was possible to consider what one the lower rank ability is.

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Unification of plural techniques is a crucial skill for engineers, especially for employment in Japan's complex and diverse professional environment. However, present teaching methods in technical high schools are insufficient to nourish that capability of integrated thinking in a systematic manner, commonly called systems consciousness. For example, the typical curriculum syllabus at schools of engineering emphasizes individual themes in experimental subjects. This study analyzed programming processes of exercises, using Looper motion mechanics, as a unique teaching material. The exercises require the directed motion of a ball from “Start” to “Finish” on a maze. In addition, the exercises confirmed the following points：1）Students can define a “system.” 2）They can state “examples of systems.” Therefore, this integrated laboratory teaching unification of plural subjects is presumed to be effective for this educational goal at a technical high school.

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The purpose of this study is to explore an ideal syllabus for reciprocal teaching where students learn English reading, supported by Graphic Organizer（GO）through computer software originally developed for presentation. In an English reading class where reciprocal teaching was substituted for lectures, thirty−seven senior high school students in their 3rd grade were required to produce GO through “Microsoft PowerPoint,” instead of merely translating from English into Japanese. From the result of the questionnaires obtained, we reached our conclusion that the participants in this study were fully satisfied with the reciprocal teaching class, where they produced their Graphic Organizers.

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Due to the recent advancement of information networks, sufficient infrastructure for e−learning is growing rapidly. It opens the way to a new style of education.This paper describes the development of a new e−learning system that features dynamic generation of educational materials for Japanese language learning. This study is conducted with the collaboration of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Japanese Language Center for International Students, and the Information Processing Center.We aim at the advancement of a Japanese language learning program that meets the growing demand for educational diversification. Various educational needs show us that textbooks have to be arranged dynamically, not just digitized statically. With thorough research on both software and educational requirements, we challenged the issue of how existing textbooks should be computerized.During the course of the development, we used some textbooks issued by the Japanese Language Center for International Students, originally made for foreigners who study Japanese language at the elementary level.This study is characterized by four aspects：1）Dynamic generation of textbooks2）Efficient interface design3）Additional creation of e−learning oriented materials4）Adaptation to a multi−language environment

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The purpose of formative tests is to provide feedback to learners in order to improve their comprehension. To improve the comprehension, the learners should review the questions that they could not make correct answers according to teachers’ advice. However, only a few learners conduct reviews on their own initiative. We propose a practical method of multiple−choice questions in formative tests in order to promote learners’ voluntary reviews based on the idea that learners should not be forced to answer if they do not have confidence to their answers.

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With the TOEFL（Test of English as a Foreign Language）being computerized in October 2000, the Writing section has become mandatory. In order to help students earn a high score in the writing section and to prepare them for writing term papers in a university setting in English speaking countries, ”Writing for the TOEFL Test” utilizing the Internet was designed. This paper describes the contents and methods of the class which will facilitate students to write proficiently in English. The conceptual framework of the teaching practice is threefold：Authenticity, Scaffolding, Reflection（Miyake, 1997）.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the organization of “information literacy” according to analysis about textbooks for information technology education. Learning contents of appering screened textbook of “Information A” were divide into 3 element of “information literacy”, and examined associative structure of 3 elements based on shifting relationship. As a result, associative structures of elements were extracted as follows：（1）“practical ability to use information”；（2）“scientific apprehension of information”；（3）“participating attitude in the information society”. Especially, group of the textbook lay stress of “scientific apprehension of information” expressed clearly transition of “practical ability to use information” to “scientific apprehension of information”, it was ideal sequence of learning activity considering to connection of “information literacy”. It seems that there was a close connection between “Scientific apprehension of information” and “participating attitude in the information society”, however, “practical ability to use information” have a separative nature from other 2 elements.

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With the introduction of accreditation by JABEE, engineering ethics education is becoming a compulsory subject in university engineering courses. There are, however, innumerable problems to be addressed. For example,（1）the number of specialists who can teach engineering ethics is overwhelmingly small,（2）textbooks on this subject have only recently been published, and（3）the subject needs to be integrated into an already−congested curriculum.In this paper, an engineering ethics education system using e−Learning was developed as a means of dealing with the present situation. Teaching materials expected that were created also serve as supplements to lectures. Characteristics of this system are as follows：（1）Students can study anytime and anywhere.（2）Teachers can promptly alter teaching materials for which immediacy is required.（3）Teachers can understand students’ progress instantaneously, and students can easily ask questions and submit reports.

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Tohoku University cooperative association（Tohoku−U−Coop）established a personal computer literacy, law and ethics seminar for the university student customers. A typical seminar was composed of hands−on instruction of how−to−use computers and the internet through their entire campus life. We have developed our own new curriculum including useful knowledge and hints of copyright law, electronic commerce, personal information and privacy protection, and cyber−crimes. These subjects are quite different from commercially offered personal computer instruction courses and they are difficult to be taught for university students by teaching assistants（TA）who usually have no or little experiences on such topics. The collaboration of Tohoku University professors and Tohoku−U−Coop have dealt with these problems and created a new PC literacy course of the new era. The course offers the basic knowledge of literacy, law and ethics of computers and the internet use required for the college students.

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An on−demand instruction system through the Internet has been introduced in the Chinese language course at basic level at the Department of Literature of Waseda University since the academic year of 2003. Through experiences with the system, it was recognized that the use of the computer has been effective in the first stage of Language instruction in which oral communication is emphasized. This paper attempts to describe the system that has been developed since 2000, and to prove that the lessons aided with the use of the computer provides more learning effectiveness in comparison with the regular classes with a great number of students. Furthermore this paper discusses possible measures as to how to effectively administer the class with a small number of students at college／university level by the introduction of the on−demand instruction system through the Internet.

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