The purpose of this study is to make the WBI(Web-based Instruction) materials for Practical Arts Class of 6th graders.
The development of WBI is composed of three stages, which are preparation stage, developing stage, and improving stage. In a prepar...
The purpose of this study is to make the WBI(Web-based Instruction) materials for Practical Arts Class of 6th graders.
The development of WBI is composed of three stages, which are preparation stage, developing stage, and improving stage. In a preparation stage, I analyzed the purpose of the chapter, characteristics of learners, and the physical environment which could be the basis of WBI. In a developing stage, I designed the contents of instruction which will be included in your WBI according to the analysis results and also designed the interface planning and structure planning.
Then, I drew a story board according to the designed contents, made multi-media materials that are included in WBI. Developing stage is divided into 'Practical Use of Resources' and 'Recycling Household goods' and is also constituted of 5 different following topics which reflect the demand of learners : 'living resources and use', 'living resources and environment', 'resource recycling', 'making out of recycling', 'Why?'. Moreover, I especially concentrated on developing behaving area instead of cognitive area. I also intended to motivate learners by adding more dynamic factors than static materials, so it could be easier for learners to interact with teachers. In improving stage, I did a preliminary survey and a field survey with a group of students and experts. Then I corrected and supplemented all the problems that were found during the surveys and finally completed the Web-Based Instruction.
After I completed the WBI, I carried out an experiment on 62 elementary students from ○○ Elementary School in Kyung-Gi province. To control all the variables more effectively, the experimental group was tested with a studying method which applied WBI material and the managing group was tested with traditional studying method. After I examined each following achievement of cognitive area, functional area, and behaving area, I verified the effectiveness of WBI through a statistical analysis.
In result, there was no distinctive difference in cognitive area between an experimental group and a managing group, but there was a meaningful difference in functional area and behaving area. Thus, it implies that the cognitive area was not affected by the WBI-applied studying method but the functional area and the behaving area were affected in an improving way compared to the traditional studying method.
Therefore, it is obvious that the WBI materials are highly applicable in education and it improves effectiveness of studying by providing an indirect experience as well as the contents that are hard to show in the classroom to the students. In addition, it could be helpful to those teachers who were having difficulties with a lack of systematic instructing materials.
The WBI materials should not be used as an one-time option, but as a constant method and there should be a continuous study of this material with repeated corrections and complements. There are still many areas which have not been developed in practical arts in elementary school. Therefore, it is necessary to have a ceaseless study on new contents of the undeveloped areas.