＼＼＼Learning of Tomorrow Newsletter No. 009／／／


INDEX

1. Featured News
: Learning of Tomorrow Collaborates
with Yoshimoto Kogyo and NTT on
“Rough & Peace Mother,” a Platform for Global Distribution of Educational Content; “Meta University” Finally Begins Classes
;(Members Only) May 20: 2nd Cloud × Education Working Group Meeting Held
; Notice of New Member Enrollment 2

. Columns & Interviews
: Nobuaki Sawa,Masahiko Inami 3

. Project Activity Reports
: • Report
on the ICT Parliamentary League’s First General Meeting of FY2019 • Report on the First Cloud Working Group Meeting • Report on the Blockchain
× Education Working Group 4

. Announcements

from Participating Companies and Organizations 5. Recommended Related News
: Introducing

the latest news on digital textbooks and programming education 6


. Media━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1. Featured


News ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Learning of Tomorrow is collaborating with Yoshimoto Kogyo and NTT on “Rough & Peace Mother,” a platform
for global expansion of educational content.
Yoshimoto is embarking on a “second founding” focused on education
, international expansion, and digital technology. NTT is introducing cutting-edge technologies—including 5G, AR, and VR—into the education sector.
A government fund is backing this initiative. This is truly the practical application of “Learning of Tomorrow”—where education meets tech and the
world. The educational content centers on “play and learning,
” a concept that CANVAS, the organizing body, has
long championed. The Learning of Tomorrow Association is also collaborating on the expansion of Rough & Peace Mother.
https://lot.or.jp/report/1065/

■ “Meta University” Finally Opens
“Meta University” launches on May 18,
where Japan’s leading instructors will
impart knowledge essential for next-generation management—including AI, IoT, big data, security, design thinking, and innovation
management. https://lot.or.jp/report/847/

■ (Members Only) May 20: 2nd Cloud × Education Working Group Meeting
We plan to solicit challenges regarding cloud adoption from working group members and summarize
the key discussion points.
https://lot.or.jp/report/1068/

■ Introducing
a New Member Company: ExaWizards Co., Ltd.
https://exawizards.com/company


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2. Columns & Interviews ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Interview] Nobuaki


Sawa
(Deputy Counselor, School Education Division, Kashiwa City Board of Education)
http://csforall.jp/interview/2878/

[Interview] Mr. Masahiko Inami (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
From the CiP Council’s interview series “Packed to the Brim”
http://takeshiba.org/interview09/


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3. Project Activity Report
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■ Report
on the First General Meeting of the FY2019 ICT Parliamentary League: Chairperson Nanako Ishido and Executive Director Ichiya Nakamura, both
expert members, attended the general meeting of the cross-party ICT Parliamentary League (Chair: Representative Toshiaki Endo) held on April 9, 2019.
https://lot.or.jp/project/1024/

■
Report on the 1st Cloud Working Group
“Roundtable Discussion on Cloud and Education” Participants exchanged views on
the current status of cloud adoption and future plans for the working group’s activities.
https://lot.or.jp/project/1038/

■ Blockchain × Education Working Group Report
:
Discussions focused on use cases for blockchain—essential for innovation in the education sector—with an eye toward implementation in 2–3 years or 5–6 years, and decisions were made regarding the working group’s
future initiatives.
https://lot.or.jp/project/1063/


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4. Announcements
from Participating Companies and Organizations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

■ [Call for Participants] Symposium
by the Executive Committee for Research on Programming Education for Working Adults: “The Cyber Crisis at Our Doorstep”
(June 11) The Japan Medical Association ORCA Management Organization Co., Ltd. recognizes the importance of
programming education for working adults in the medical field and is conducting
activities through the “Executive Committee for Research on Programming Education for Working Adults,” with the aim of
promoting this initiative collaboratively across corporate and occupational boundaries.As part of these efforts, the committee is hosting a symposium on cyber crisis countermeasures from various perspectives and on ICT literacy from the viewpoint of
programming language developers.
https://pear.orcamo.co.jp/news/news190424.html
(Information and Communications Promotion Foundation)

■ [Registration Open] The 4th National Elementary and Junior High School Programming Competition!
This year marks the 4th edition of the National Elementary and Junior High School Programming Competition.
The application period runs from July 1 to September 2, and an awards ceremony is scheduled for October.
(NPO CANVAS)
http://jjpc.jp/

■ [Exhibition] STEAM KIDS Exhibition: A hands-on exhibition for children to learn about
the mechanisms of everyday life through play with science
, engineering, and technology.
(NPO CANVAS)
http://canvas.ws/workshop/21123


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5. Recommended Related News
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from Japan and abroad. Introducing news related to
programming education.
https://lot.or.jp/relation/


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6. Media
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) Raising the Digital Native Generation: When Should They Start Using Smartphones? Is It Okay to Let Them Study
on Tablets? (Nanako Ishido, Chairperson)
https://www.daiwa.jp/sodatte/child/s0187/


===========================================================Learning
of Tomorrow Newsletter Vol. 009
Publisher: Learning of Tomorrow Association
(General Incorporated Association) Date of Publication: May 10, 2019
Editor-in-Chief: Nanako Ishido
Editors: Miyuki Oyama, Yuko
Akamatsu===========================================================