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Information Literacy Lab
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A lab exploring how to cultivate information literacy as information and communication technology advances.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how to cultivate evolving information literacy.
The Information Literacy Lab studies how to cultivate information literacy, which keeps changing as information and communication technology advances.
The lab develops methodologies and educational content that actively use advancing information and communication technology to improve the quality of education.
It also studies what future literacy regarding media and information should look like, and proposes methods for cultivating it.
The research is interdisciplinary: in addition to informatics and education, it collaborates with fields such as psychology, brain science, AI (artificial intelligence), and mathematical data science.
Key terms
- Information literacy
- The ability to gather information appropriately, interpret it, and put it to use
- Learning Analytics
- A research field that analyzes learning records and data to improve education
- Big data
- Large-scale data that is very high in volume and diverse in type. This lab uses it to analyze learning logs
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how to cultivate information literacy as it changes with advances in information and communication technology, from three angles: educational methods, the nature of literacy itself, and the systems for putting them into practice. It pursues interdisciplinary research in collaboration with fields such as psychology, brain science, and AI, and aims to return its results to society.
*Illustrative imageImproving the Quality of Education with ICT
The lab develops methodologies and educational content that actively use advancing information and communication technology to improve the quality of education.
*Illustrative imageFuture Literacy and How to Cultivate It
The lab considers what future literacy regarding media and information should look like, and conducts research that proposes methods for cultivating it.
*Illustrative imageImplementation Issues and Training of Instructors
The lab studies the policies needed to make these goals a reality, as well as implementation issues such as governance at educational institutions. Educational programs for training instructors are also a subject of its research.
*Illustrative imageLearning Analytics, AI, and Data Analysis
The lab advances Learning Analytics in collaboration with a variety of fields. In recent years, it has also worked on automatic problem generation using AI and big data analysis of learning logs.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorToru Nagahama
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Students using a computer laptop” Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) / CC0 (cropped)
- Improving the Quality of Education with ICT: “Tabletunterricht 06” Aigner Ronja, Kohlmeier Michelle / CC0 (cropped)
- Future Literacy and How to Cultivate It: “Man reading a newspaper at a café terrace in Athens, Greece - 1979” Jean-Louis Debaize / European Communities, 1979 / EC - Audiovisual Service / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Implementation Issues and Training of Instructors: “Shuyukan High School computer room” バーレンムール / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Learning Analytics, AI, and Data Analysis: “IBM Watson” Clockready / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cognitive Psychology and Informatics Lab): “Optical Illusion (67183712)” Dennis Sylvester Hurd / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Language Informatics Lab): “Data center infrastructure in the United States” DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Media and Culture Lab): “Television studio, Singapore Media Academy - 20150730” Smuconlaw / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Transportation Control Lab): “World Class Traffic Jam )” joiseyshowaa from Freehold, NJ, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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