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INDEX

1. Featured News ●
Now Accepting Registrations for Online Symposium
! https://lot.or.jp/feature/2676/
—Toward Personalized and Collaborative Learning—~
Public Data Working Group
: The World’s Longest Road: Sesame Street’s History of Educational
Innovation and Its Future Direction

2 Learning of Tomorrow
CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjoSVe-pcbahOMCCQJ9Sobw
● Online Symposium Videos Now Available!
　・The Third Form of Education in the Future ・Tsukuba
Municipal Midori Gakuen’s Pioneering ICT Education Practices ~
Winner of the e-Learning Award in Its Third Year of Operation ・New Ways of Learning Through STEAM
・Minerva
University’s Educational Approach and Examples of Its Application in Japan

3. Project Activity Reports ●
Online Symposium Report Now Available
! https://lot.or.jp/feature/2628/
・Infinity International
Academy: Continuing Its Unprecedented Challenges
・Considering the Future of Education ・C2C Platform Education Using Design Thinking ~
Prototyping Experience with embot~
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Working Groups　・Meta University Working Group　　Interim Report on the Definition of Digital
Talent
Submitted to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry　・Report on the 8th Data Working Group Meeting

4. Announcements from Participating Companies and Organizations

5 Recommended Related News Stories

6 Media Features

　

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1. Featured News

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■ Announcement Regarding the Online Symposium

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Toward Realizing Individually Optimized Learning and Collaborative Learning: (Public Data Working Group)]

Learning of Tomorrow
submitted public comments to the Digital Agency, which is currently working on a roadmap
for the utilization of educational data. Based on these comments, the Data Working Group held a
public discussion with representatives from the Digital Agency,
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to advance educational digital transformation (DX).
https://lot.or.jp/report/6732/

　

[The World’s Longest Road: Sesame Street’s History of Educational
Innovation and Where It’s Headed]

Sesame Street began
in the United States in 1969 with the goal of providing high-quality education to all children in an equitable and fair manner.
Amid the
global call for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI),” Sesame Street is exploring new approaches, such as applying blockchain concepts to the
classroom.Manabu
Nagaoka, Representative of
Sesame Workshop Japan, gave a lecture on the history of educational innovation at Sesame Street and its
future direction.
https://lot.or.jp/report/7018/

　

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2. Learning of Tomorrow Channel

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■ Online Symposium Video Now Available!

・The Third Form of Education in the Future

https://youtu.be/4SEt6bsqcKI

・Tsukuba Municipal Midori Gakuen’s Innovative ICT Education Practices
: Winning the e-Learning Award in Its Third Year of Operation

https://youtu.be/vpzMTXTHPqM

・New Ways of Learning Through STEAM

https://youtu.be/5byxECtFPeU

・Minerva University’s Educational Approach and Examples of Its Application in Japan

https://youtu.be/tFgiBYE68ZY

　

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3. Project Activity Report

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■ Online Symposium Report Now Available!

[Infinity International Academy: Continuing Its Unprecedented Challenge]

Maki Otani, principal of Infinity International Academy,

discusses the
academy’s origins, structure, and curriculum. Part 1:
https://lot.or.jp/project/6609/後半 https://lot.or.jp/project/6610/

[Thinking About the Future of Education]

Noriyuki Yanagawa, a professor at the Graduate School of Economics and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo, discusses the challenges
currently facing higher education and the potential for online education to help
overcome them.
Part 1:
https://lot.or.jp/project/6895/後半 https://lot.or.jp/project/6907/

[C2C Platform
Education Using Design Thinking: A Prototyping Experience with embot]

Kazutoshi
Nukata, Representative Director and CEO of e-Craft Co., Ltd., discusses the background behind the development of the programming educational tool “embot.”
Part 1:
https://lot.or.jp/project/7033/後半 https://lot.or.jp/project/7034/

■ Working Group

・The "Meta University" Working Group Submitted an Interim Report on the Definition of Digital
Talent to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

A Meta University working group tasked with conducting specific
studies toward the development of a platform for digital talent development discussed the definition of digital talent within
companies and organizations, the division of roles, and the roles and required skills of various digital professions in
promoting digital transformation (DX). The group compiled
these findings and submitted them as an interim report to the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which is currently developing policies related to digital talent.
https://lot.or.jp/project/6782/

・Report on the 8th Data Working Group Meeting

Discussion regarding the public comments to be submitted to the
Digital Agency, based on feedback received from members of the Learning of Tomorrow Association and the New Economic Federation.
Outline of the policy for the December Data Publication Working Group.
https://lot.or.jp/project/6954/

　

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4. Announcements from Participating Companies and Organizations

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■ [Call for Participants] Online Seminar for Education Professionals in December
, Hosted by Digital Arts

We’ll present real-life
examples of problems caused by GIGA devices in schools and discuss measures—including establishing internet usage rules
and implementing filtering—to resolve these issues.
This month, the Ashiya City Board of Education will serve as our guest speaker,
delivering a lecture on the effective use of ICT.

[Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 3:00 PM – 3:40 PM]
[Presentation by the Ashiya City Board of Education] Solutions for Internet

Issues with GIGA Devices — “i-FILTER@Cloud” White-Label Operation to
Alleviate Concerns Among Parents and School Staff —
https://mktg.daj.jp/public/seminar/view/4721

[Outreach and Awareness Activities] Individual Registration for Information Literacy Classes <
For Students, Parents, and School Staff>
*Now available online as well
https://www.daj.jp/csr/enlightenment/

(Digital Arts, Inc.)

■ [Google for Education] — Call for Seminar
Participants & Teacher Handbook Now Available

・[12/25] Online Seminar on Realizing the GIGA School Initiative: The Nara
Prefecture Model and the Second Stage of GIGA

In this seminar, we will welcome experts who promoted the “Nara Prefecture-wide Model”—an initiative to
advance the digitization of education across the entire prefecture—to share their insights on the
vision for the second stage of the GIGA School Initiative, based on what they observed while visiting
schools throughout the prefecture.We will
also invite representatives from multiple municipalities in Nara Prefecture to discuss the synergies created by collaboration between
municipalities and methods for fostering such cooperation.
[Saturday, December 25, 2021, 1:00 PM–2:40 PM]
https://events.withgoogle.com/giga-gfe-12-25/

・Collection of Examples & Templates for Assigning Homework Now Available

We’ve released a handbook for teachers that answers questions
such as, “Students have started taking their devices home—how should we make the most of this?” This handbook is packed with ideas
from teachers.
[Free Download]
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/gfe_homestudy.pdf

(Google for Education)

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5. Recommended Related News

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Here are some news stories about "Learning of Tomorrow" from Japan and abroad

http://lot.or.jp/relation/

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6. Media

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■ Recommendations for the Fumio Kishida Cabinet

・Nov. 15: Multiple media
outlets report, “The Learning of Tomorrow Association Announces Recommendations to the Fumio Kishida Cabinet”
https://lot.or.jp/media/6777/

・Nov. 16: ICT Education News
, “Learning of Tomorrow Submits Recommendations to the Kishida Cabinet on ‘Realizing the GIGA School Initiative Environment’ and
Other Issues”
https://ict-enews.net/2021/11/16lot/

・Nov. 19: ReseEd
“Continue Support for the Digitalization of Education… Learning of Tomorrow Makes Proposal to the Kishida Cabinet”
https://reseed.resemom.jp/article/2021/11/19/2803.html

■ Online Symposium

・Nov. 23: Zen-Shigaku Shimbun
, “Learning of Tomorrow Holds Online Symposium on the Establishment of National Colleges of Technology”
https://lot.or.jp/media/7010/

・Dec. 7: Naigai Kyoiku
, “Establishing Technical Colleges in Mountainous and Rural Areas to Foster Entrepreneurs”
https://lot.or.jp/media/7127/

■ Toward the Realization of Education DX: An Online Symposium with the Digital Agency

・Nov. 30: Multiple media
outlets report, “Learning of Tomorrow to Hold Online Symposium with the Digital Agency on Dec. 22 to Advance Education DX”
https://lot.or.jp/media/7015/

・Dec. 1: ReseEd
“Online Symposium on Dec. 22: Toward the Realization of Educational DX”
https://reseed.resemom.jp/article/2021/12/01/2879.html

・Dec. 2: ICT Education News
“Learning of Tomorrow to Hold Online
Symposium with the Digital Agency on the 22nd to Advance Educational DX”
https://ict-enews.net/2021/12/02lot/

Click here for more details

https://lot.or.jp/media/

　

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Learning of Tomorrow Newsletter Vol. 040

Publisher: Learning of Tomorrow (General Incorporated Association)

Date of Publication: December 15, 2021

Publisher: Nanako Ishido

Edited by Yuko Akamatsu

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