The Status of SMART Education in KOREA

JeongWon Choi; YoungJun Lee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 175–178

The purpose of this study is to suggest implications after analyzing the status of SMART education that is promoted currently in Korea. In this study changes on national Internet environment, education paradigm shift, definition of SMART education...

Reflection of Informatics Gifted Students to Puzzle Based Algorithm Learning for Improving Computational Thinking

JeongWon Choi; Youngjun Lee

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 69–74

Computational thinking, the core of computer science, became critical learning skill for all learners. In order to cultivating computational thinking, learners have to design problem solving process to solve efficiently and effectively and represent ...

Topics: Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues, Students

A Survey on the Current Status and Requirements of Portable Learning Devices at Schools in Korea

Jeongwon Choi; YoungMin Seo; YoungJun Lee

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1322–1326

The goal of U-learning is that students can learn whenever and wherever they want. However, existing portable learning devices have met with the dissatisfaction of learners according to the results of u-learning-specialized schools, particularly in...

Improving Pre-Service Teachers Training in Universities of Education

JeongWon Choi; Eunkyoung Lee; Youngjun Lee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1561–1564

This article aims to analyze the existing computer science teachers training and to propose improvements. Modern society revolves around IT, allowing people to acquire the information they want at any time. Such a paradigm shift demands paradigm...

Topics: Workforce Education

Computing Education in Korea--Current Issues and Endeavors

Jeongwon Choi; Sangjin An; Youngjun Lee

ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (May 2015)

Computer education has been provided for a long period of time in Korea. Starting as a vocational program, the content of computer education for students evolved to include content on computer literacy, Information Communication Technology (ICT)...

The Development of App Making Learning Curriculum for Informatics Gifted Elementary School Students to Improve their Computational Thinking

SungJin Hwang; JeongWon Choi; YoungJun Lee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 96–101

Computational thinking has recently become an important paradigm in computer education. A good example that shows the development of computational thinking can be found in smart devices that resolve many problematic situations in daily life. For...

Topics: Elementary Education, Information Technology Education, Computational Thinking

A Case Study of Team Teaching for the Improvement of Algorithm Teaching Ability among Pre-service Computer Science Teachers

JeongWon Choi; YoungMin Seo; YoungJun Lee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 28–32

In this study, team teaching was conducted with a teacher to improve the algorithm-teaching performance of 18 pre-service computer science teachers in teacher training. The teacher videotaped the pre-service teachers’ lesson trial performances, and...

The possibility of play education for improving computational thinking of preschoolers

Yun-Roc Cho; Jeongwon Choi; Youngjun Lee

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1160–1163

Education for young children have to be consist of necessary ability for future society. Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill for everyone in the mid-21st century. The purpose of this research is to study the possibility of...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, Children, Curriculum

A survey on the perception of south Korea elementary school teachers’ competency about technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge(TPACK)

JinWon Yi; JeongWon Choi; YoungJun Lee

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 45–50

This research analyzed investigation by collecting 140 elementary school teachers’ response through survey based on google web rom June to July 2015 for seeing the point in time standard by researching and analyzing elementary school teacher...

Topics: Teachers, research, Elementary Education, Policy Issues

The Status of Informatics Gifted Education in Korea

JaeHyeong Park; JeongWon Choi; YoungJun Lee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2660–2664

The purpose of this study is to explore the current status of informatics gifted education in Korea and to suggest the implications. Informatics gifted education is growing trend. Students are seleted through 2, 3-steps process and each class...

Design of SMART Teaching and Learning System for Informatics Gifted Students

JeongWon Choi; Eunkyung Lee; Youngjun Lee

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1075–1080

The purpose of this research is to design SMART Teaching and Learning that strengthens computational thinking ability of the gifted information technology students based on the SMART education propelled by the government with regards to the...

Topics: Instructional Design, Implementation Examples & Issues, Other

Design of Content Development Course for Preliminary Teacher Training

SangJin An; JeongWon Choi; YoungJun Lee

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1029–1032

This study aims to design a liberal art course related to digital content development for preliminary teacher education. To prepare SMART education environment, teachers should have more abilities utilizing multimedia contents. Collecting, modifying,...

Topics: Instructional Design