Reseed was on March 1, 2022, led by Mr. Hiroyoshi Yasuhiko, Counselor with the Digital Agency General Manager and PT Leader (also). Digital Textbook Infrastructure Development Examination and Chief of Education Support and Teaching Materials Division and ITIL certification. Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
We invited Mr. Soichiro Hirai, a special researcher at the Information and Communication Research Institute, who is working on the construction and support of an educational ITIL certification environment, to hold a webinar under the theme of “Don’t miss a chance! National subsidies and utilization methods for realizing GIGA”.
Communication environment for each elementary
To realize optimal learning for each individual, the national government has advanced the GIGA school concept and has prepared an ICT terminal and its communication environment for each elementary and junior high school child/student as one of the learning tools. Due to the Korona-ka, maintenance has been promoted speedily, but many issues have become apparent, such as inadequate network lines and undeveloped instructor terminals in the operational stage.
To deal with these issues, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology has allocated 20.1 billion yen as a supplementary budget for the 3rd fiscal year of Reiwa, and 3.3 billion yen as a draft budget for the 4th fiscal year of Rewa.
“I want the boards of education of each local government to lay the foundation for better ICT education by making the best use of the government’s subsidies from this supplementary budget,” says Yasuhiko. What kind of issues do the actual school sites have now, and what kind of measures are necessary? Also, what is the method of utilizing national subsidies to solve the problem? He gave a lecture on the main purpose of establishing the supplementary budget this time and how to effectively utilize the subsidy.
Supplementary budget for promoting the GIGA school concept
Mr. Yasuhiko gave a lecture entitled “Realization of aws training Concept-Implementation of GIGA by Accelerating Support”. First, he explained the background of the GIGA school concept and the issues and current situation of education in Japan. He said that ICT education lags behind other countries, which could lead to a decline in national competitiveness in Japan, where its population is declining rapidly.
Mr. Yasuhiko quoted the results of the “OECD Student Achievement Survey 2018 Survey” (PISA2018) and the “International Mathematics and Science Education Trend Survey”, and the results of mathematics, science (science), and reading comprehension are worldwide. But he said it was top class. However, when combined with the PISA2009 Digital Reading Comprehension Survey, he pointed out that we are in an era where even if we have the ability, we cannot produce results without ICT literacy. In addition, Japan explained that the use of digital devices in schools is the lowest among OECD countries, and expressed a sense of crisis about the impact of delays in Japan’s ICT education.
The development of terminals for each person
The GIGA school concept, which was proposed in response to the demand for the promotion. So ICT education, secured a budget ahead of schedule due to the Korona-ka. The development of terminals for each person and the network for that purpose is proceeding at a rapid pace, and by the end of August 2020, about 96% of public elementary and junior high schools nationwide started using terminals. A certain amount of progress was confirmed in the development of the ICT environment. However, he pointed out that three major issues have become apparent during the operation.
The first issue is school ICT operation support and support system for teachers. In the first place, there are regional differences in the spread and utilization of terminals for each person. And the network environment is inadequate, such as difficulty in connecting to the network. And slow speed, initial settings and troubleshooting are a heavy burden on teachers.
The student’s terminals are different
The second issue is the hardware problem such as the classroom environment. Since the purchase timing of the instructor’s terminal and the student’s terminal are different. There is a big difference in OS and specifications, and there are cases where the instruction. Because is affecte by the difference in display method and processing speed.
The environment of peripheral devices such as terminals for instructors and cameras require for distance learning is not prepare. Third, he points out that the introduction of digital textbooks was inadequate. To solve these three issues that became apparent in the operation. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology stated. So that the necessary expenses were recorde according to the supplementary budget for Reiwa 3. And the initial budget for Reiwa 4.
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