With the rapid development of information and communication technology and globalization in recent years, active use of ICT is required also in education.
This includes not only ICT but also the Internet, in the form of LMS (Learning Management System) and SNS (Social Networking Service) for education. In this study, from the point of view of gender, biology classes with plant cultivation learning through PBL (Project Based Learning) were carried out in high school science class, and students observed the botanies utilizing Instagram on SNS.
The results indicate that observation records using Instagram were more actively used by girls than boys. It may be thought from this practice that observation records using Instagram, which can record photographs and comments and send information at the same time can be expected to be used especially by girls, but also by boys. On the other hand, with boys, the number of Instagram posts was less than with girls, but the number of comments per post was shown to be greater than that of girls.
From these results, it is suggested that Instagram is an effective educational means for recording observation in science class.
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