Internet is used a lot currently to induce student's learning motive. In this study, travel agency homepage as used for world geography class as one of teaching-learning method. This study is different from the existing study that they used the conten...
Internet is used a lot currently to induce student's learning motive. In this study, travel agency homepage as used for world geography class as one of teaching-learning method. This study is different from the existing study that they used the content of world geography homepage.
The good point using travel agency homepage, rather than using educational content is because of following four reasons. Firstly, because of the nature of the travel agency, they update the new content regularly that you can search the current information. Secondly, through the various data and postscript that you can't see in educational content, it could help you feel the place. Thirdly, it is organized with to do geography education related with real life like city information, tourist resort, attraction, food, lodging information, shopping, traffic, and product. Fourthly, students can use it easily that they don't have complicated admission and approval process.
Recently, in geography subject, a student learning potentiality and interest is emphasized rather than academic knowledge's accuracy and compactness. Also they say concerning social and national demand the first as education.
But as a user focused world geography education, a class that emphasizes geographical imagination like travel and experience is hard to organize just as a textbook. So in this study, we used the content of travel agency homepage to organize a world geography class that can give interest to the student.
The purpose of this study is because of following reason. Firstly, through travel geography, improve geographical imagination. Secondly, through the basis of travel agency homepage content tested the class in the spot and applied it. After that through analyzing the result, compared with lecture class that uses existing power point data and analyzed the class's effectiveness and satisfaction. So we try to show a model of world geography class that will be accomplished in the future.
Through this purpose, we create following hypothesis and try to prove it.
Firstly, the world geography class that uses the content of travel agency is higher in student's learning motivation and interest than lecture style class.
Secondly, the world geography class that uses the content of travel agency is more effective in increasing the study achievement than lecture style class.
To verify the hypothesis, we searched S Girls middle school 1st grade 2 class. We created one class as experimental group and one class as comparative group. We used 7th grade social studies -Tourism is developed in southern Europe- unit. In the experimental group, taught a class using the content of travel agency homepage and in the comparative group taught a class traditionally using power point data.
To analyze the result, we appraised before and after the class and gave a survey. Through the survey, we collected student's opinion, measured study achievement, and interest. Then analyzed the result.
The analysis result shows in the following.
1. The world geography class using travel agency homepage has various information, practical information of travel, various photo, various movie, and feel like traveling that it gives interest and motivation that doesn't have in the textbook.
2. It shows that there is no much difference in experimental group and comparative group in study achievement. But in the subjective answer, experimental group has more various and creative answer than the comparative group. So it shows that it could help and extend student's thinking power.