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Japan : Fujitsu Initiates "Learning Project of Tomorrow" for an Era in Which Every Student Has a Tablet [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Fujitsu today announced that it will be promoting the "learning project of tomorrow" to support the creation of a learning environments suitable for the 21st century. From September 2014 until March 2016, Fujitsu will provide software and equipment necessary for lessons utilizing ICT in the classroom to a total of six elementary schools and middle schools, comprising five schools in different regions across Japan, and one elementary school in the ASEAN region. With this project, Fujitsu will provide know-how cultivated from its frontline experience from the Future School Promotion Project and Learning Innovation Project on implementing procedures and lesson plans on how to use ICT equipment, such as tablets, in daily lessons in ordinary classrooms, while also sending ICT support personnel who will provide more effective utilization methods for ICT. Furthermore, Fujitsu will provide a community site, "chiegatamaru portal site" or "ChiePo," which will enable the sharing of teaching materials and lesson plans between instructors at participating schools. By promoting an exchange of information, it will raise the degree of ICT usage expertise among schools and teachers and support a higher level of education. In addition, starting today, Fujitsu will launch "chietama solution", used for this project by both elementary students and educators. This solution will be available only in Japan. This product simplifies preparation of class teaching materials with employ ICT, and has features that make it easy to use ICT in class, and that automatically store an archive of classes while sharing answers or classwork among teachers and students. Through this project, Fujitsu will, with March of 2016 as a target, aim to create a dissemination model for spreading lesson know-how and practical implementation of lessons utilizing ICT. Background and Goals The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Sports, Culture, Science, and Technology (MEXT) have been implementing the Future School Promotion Project and Learning Innovation Project with aim of identifying and resolving issues to meet the government goal of creating a learning environment suitable for the 21st century by 2020. Also, many local governments have been deploying tablets in ordinary classrooms, moving towards the realization of MEXT's basic plan for the promotion of education, which is one tablet or PC for every 3.6 students. Under these circumstances, Fujitsu, through contact with local governments throughout Japan, has come to consider the following to be reasons preventing the widespread use of ICT in elementary and middle schools. It has become a big burden for educators in Japan to build expertise in lessons that utilize ICT. It is difficult to visualize implementation procedures and utilization steps for ICT. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |