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2025.06.02
Learning of Tomorrow News

・Is Generative AI Making Universities Obsolete? The Increasingly Sophisticated Cat-and-Mouse Game Between Faculty and Students, and How a Keio University Faculty Member’s “Copy-and-Paste Countermeasures” Raise Questions About the Meaning of Higher Education (JBpress)

・"Historic Mentor," an AI mentoring service that allows users to "converse" with historical figures, has launched (XenoSpectrum)

・"AI Schools" Are Spreading Across the U.S.: Regular Classes Last Just 2 Hours, with AI Doing the Teaching and Teachers Acting as "Guides" (Newsweek)

・Will AI Handle Learning from Now On, Allowing Schools to Focus on Caring for Children? Duolingo’s CEO Discusses “The Future of Education” (BUSINESS INSIDER)

・Audrey Tang addressed a major challenge in Japan’s education system: how to approach AI. “I don’t want students to fight against AI. I want them to use it just like a calculator,” she said (TOKYO MX+).

• “Freeing Children from Obligations”: The Forefront of “Diversifying Learning” as Seen in a Temple-Run Free School—Creating a “Safe Space” We Need to Consider Now, with Over 340,000 Children Not Attending School (Toyo Keizai Education × ICT)

・Covering STEAM, AI, and Health Management: An Interesting “Learning Plus” Educational Tool from South Korea — “EDIX Tokyo 2025” Report #11 (Children and IT)

・Distribution of free book-based inquiry learning materials to 10,000 high school students has begun. The “Wings of the Future Project,” an edutainment program that encourages students to envision the future through corporate stories, has been launched. (PRTIMES)

・More than 800,000 elementary and middle school students nationwide fall into the “gray zone” for developmental disorders; Waseda University students launch a tutoring service to help students develop their “strengths and interests” (logmi Business)

・The Future of Digital Textbooks [1]: Moving Toward Data Integration with the Next Generation of Curriculum Guidelines (Education and ICT Online)

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    Professor, Keio University; Ph.D. (Policy and Media)
    Director, B Lab
    Chairperson, Learning of Tomorrow (General Incorporated Association)
    Chairperson, CANVAS

    After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he served as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab before founding the NPO CANVAS and the Learning of Tomorrow Association, a General Incorporated Association, and assuming the role of representative. He serves as an outside director for Matsuya Co., Ltd., Fuji Media Holdings, Inc., and Digital Garage, Inc.
    He has served on various government committees, including the Information and Communications Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as well as the NHK Central Broadcasting Program Council. He also serves as a director of the Digital Signage Consortium, among other roles. He holds a Ph.D. in Policy and Media.
    His publications include *Turning On Children’s Creativity!*, *What Are Smart Kids Doing on Their Smartphones?*, *The Forefront of Online Education in Japan: Considering Learning in the Post-COVID Era*,“What Is Programming Education? 45 Questions Parents Want to Know,” and “Declaration on Digital Education.” He has also provided supervision for numerous works, including “Ah, I See! Programming Education for Parents and Children Through Manga.”