System Research of Environmental Education
Aims:
1 ) Design Study of Computer and Network Systems for Environmental
Educa-
tion (EE)
2 ) Research on Information Media and Networking Utilities for EE
3 ) Research on Database for EE
Project Studies:
Development of Internet Service Oriented Learning Systems at School Educa-
tion.
Practice:
To carry out the above-mentioned plans, several working groups
have been
started as follows:
1 ) Technical Supports to Educational Networking Groups at Schools in Miyagi
Prefecture
2 ) Developments of Interactive Web Pages for EE
3 ) Collaborative Works to Utilize Internet Resources for Global Learning at
Attached Schools
As a member of EEC, I am engaged in works as follows,
where URLs are also shown;
1 ) Application of Networking Systems to Computer Sci-
ence Education
http://www.curri.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/curri-ex/st/m-yasu/
rep/abst.html
2 ) Human Friendly Management for Educational Network
in School and College
http://www.curri.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/curri-ex/st/m-yasu/rep/rep99-3b.html
3 ) Applications of Network and Computer Systems to School Education
http://www.curri.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/curri-ex/st/m-yasu/rep/rep00-2b.html
4 ) Development of Management Softwares of Imagetype Web-Database for EE
http://www.curri.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/curri-ex/st/m-yasu/rep/rep2002-1.html
(in Japanese)
5 ) Managements of Campus Networking and Its Application to Promote Research-
ing Studies in University of Education
http://www.curri.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/curri-ex/st/m-yasu/rep/rep01-1.html
(in Japanese)
As a member of System Research of EEC, I am providing web contents and database for environmental education. And in accompanied with field works of EEC, I am trying to leave their records on the web.
◆Environmental Balance Sheet for Kids:
Estimating the CO2 gas emissions from daily ac-
tivities and learning opportunities to reduce emis-
sions, save energy and money (pages in Japanese).
◆Survey on Frogs in Sendai for Kids:
Surveying a familiar animal, frogs to encourage
kids interests in environment. Results are shown
realtime (pages in Japanese).
◆Other Biological Database:
Plant Cis-acting Regulatory DNA Elements
Life Science Dictionary Project
Ant Image Database
Ant Kingdom, Photo Encyclopedia, Ants
My field of research:
computer science (and its border)
Aim:
finding and/or making rules or theories that:
- Something simple make itself more com-
plicated, as a reflection of its environment
(includes, sometimes a huge amount of, other resemblance)
- Somethings simple assemble, communicate, and cooperate to do someting
complicated by themselves, without external coodinators, interventers, and
so on.
I called these activities "autonomous, decentralized, cooperative"(ADC) ones.
Thus I have special interests in: cognitive science, developmental biology, lin-
guistics (especially "Speach Act Theory" by John L. Austin), immunology, is-
sues arround "complexity", nerve systems (point-to-point messaging) vs. in-
ternal secretional systems (broadcast messaging), etc, etc...
Most of my studies of these fields may end in my PRIVATE satisfaction of
curiosities that NEVER contributes to my aim described above, but I believe
that there exist a few (or, I hope, many) ideas and/or concepts that inspire
me in such fields.
