A Survey of Middle and Upper Elementary School Students’ Knowledge of Cloud Computing
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/liir.v005.222Keywords:
Knowledge of cloud computing, Japanese elementary school, Middle and upper elementary school students, One-to-one devicesAbstract
In this study, a questionnaire was administered to middle and upper elementary school students to evaluate their cloud computing knowledge to obtain suggestions for instructional strategies to understand and promote the utilization of cloud computing. Pictures and sentences explaining cloud computing were evaluated based on the evaluation criteria developed from the points of view proposed by Mitsui et al. As a result, we found that some viewpoints were easy to understand, and some were difficult to understand. Overall, we found that the general level of cloud computing knowledge acquisition was low. In addition, the upper grades were not necessarily more proficient, and there were differences between classes. In addition, we analyzed the relationship between the students’ cloud computing knowledge and the teacher’s experience. As a result, students whose homeroom teachers had limited experience and students whose homeroom teachers had extensive experience teaching students to utilize one-to-one devices were more likely to have acquired knowledge of cloud computing.
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