Information in the Profession
TeachersYOKOYAMA, Akiko
Grade, SemesterYear 4 2nd semest [Licence Course]
CategorySpecial Subjects
Elective, CreditsElective 2credit
 Syllabus Number3I300

Course Description

The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to understand the many aspects of network-based information society and the contents of career guidance in school.
Topics may include information and communication technology, "Web2.0", and career counseling.
Class activities will be a combination of group discussion and creating useful teaching materials for career decision making.
This course is related to DP1.

Course Objectives

(1)Students will be able to understand a network-based information society.
(2)Students will learn the gap in benefits from the information society.
(3)Students will be able to understand t new problems of the information society.
(4)Students will be able to create useful teaching materials for career decision making.

Grading Policy

(1) Reports after class and materials (30%)
(2) Learning portfolio (outcomes and reflections of learning) (50%)
(3) Final report (20 %)
We will return the submitted items such as Learning portfolio, Reports and so on and give feedback. The final test will be explained on the LMS.

Textbook and Reference

KindTitleAuthorPublisher
Textbook We will distribute and present necessary materials and references in class.
Students use LMS.
References

Requirements(Assignments)

As a pre-assignment, Students review the content of " Study of Guidance of Student
Personnel Service " and " Informatic Sociology " in 3rd grade (about 2 hours each time) (1st-2nd).
As a post-assignment students will investigate the document and put it together (about 1 hour each time)(3th - 6th)
Students will investigate the materials and prepare for presentation (about 1 hour each) (13th - 14th).

Note

In the teacher training course, it is the compulsory subject for the students who wish to acquire the "information" license.

Schedule

1The syllabus and the attention points on course, the purpose of the course, the outline, the assessment method, etc. will be explained.
2Students will make presentation and discuss on the characteristics of information society and change of society.
3Students will investigate the classification of the information industry and summarize it in groups.
4Students will investigate the ITSS data and summarize it in groups.
5Students will make presentation on ITSS and understand it.
6Students will investigate the information industry and engineers and summarize it in groups.
7Students will prepare teaching materials for career development and occupation selection, and create a plan.
8Teaching material creation ① 
Students will create outlines of teaching materials for career development and career selection support.
9Teaching material creation ②
Students will collect various information to prepare teaching materials for career development and occupation selection support.
10Teaching material creation ③
Students will prepare teaching materials in detail for career development and occupation selection support.
11Teaching material creation ④
Students will revise teaching materials created for career development and vocational support.
12Students will make presentations and discussions on the teaching materials created.
13Students will learn about support for high school students / college students who wish to be information technology engineers.
14Students will make presentations and discussions on how career education of information engineers at high school.
15Final examination and explanation
Students will summarize the reflection of learning in sentences and write a final report.