CANVAS “How to Help Your Child Use Digital Games Wisely” Event Featuring Pokémon to Be Held! From a CANVAS Facebook post
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<Held on August 2! Registration Now Open>
~Experience it with “Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu” and “Let’s Go! Eevee”~
“How to Help Children Use Digital Games Wisely”
Summer vacation has finally begun!
On August 2, we’ll be hosting an event with The Pokémon Company on the theme of “How to Help Children Use Digital Games Wisely”!
The event will consist of three parts.
For Parts 1 and 2, we’ve invited Professor Toru Fujimoto from the University of Tokyo’s Interdisciplinary Research Center—a leading expert in game-based learning—to explain how to use games to support children’s development.
We’ll also be joined by Ryogo Matsumaru, a current University of Tokyo student and puzzle creator who has been playing games since childhood. Drawing on his own childhood experiences, he’ll use the Pokémon games *Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu* and *Let’s Go! Eevee* to share tips on how to play games in ways that nurture children’s potential!
Finally, in Part 3, we’ll hold a workshop where parents and children can imagine the world where Pokémon live and actually create it together!
What kind of environment or world would Pokémon find “comfortable”?
It’s a workshop where just thinking about these things is a lot of fun♪
Please register via the CANVAS website
http://canvas.ws/workshop/22319
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.”
