How do we find out about our students’ understanding? How do students get feedback about their learning? How can we practically and effectively embed technology in our assessment?

At the beginning of the 7th […]

Design group tasks that support both meaningful collaboration and the core learning are not easy. The group projects need to tightly align with learning goals, and students should understand what is expected as […]

Not only for students but also for people of all ages, working in groups is complicated on many levels. Nevertheless, we know that collaboration is one of the 21st century skills our students must develop. It is […]

Good projects involve meaningful inquiry that engages students in their learning. It needs to capture the heart of the project and link to the core of what we want students to learn. Without meaningful inquiry, […]

This week, Grade 4 Japanese culture classes reviewed the questions that came up last week.

1) How can we help our audience to learn the dance?                                             Give a dance lesson […]

My Grade 4 Japanese culture students have been discussing to make a tutorial video for a Japanese folk dance. Every year, students from Grade 1 to Grade 4 practice the dance called “Tokyo Ondo” and perform it at a […]

In a traditional teaching classroom, the teacher is the sender and the source, and the student is the receiver of the information. The learning in classroom tends to be passive and the learners play little part in […]

I see the workplaces of the 21st century have a flat environment, where members are thinking about outcomes and principles with an ever-changing set of variables, and they are expected to collaborate with peers […]

Teachers have their own strategies to help students manage their learning.

At the beginning of the year, I show the course goals and expectations to students and parents to discuss the approaches to […]

I still remember the excitement when I first saw a variety of apps on my iPhone, to be accurate, at the App Store. There were unlimited possibilities on the small screen of my new smart phone. It was May 2010 when […]

I currently act as a facilitator of 12th grade C21 class. C21 is a course to develop student capacity to work within the workplaces of the 21st century. In the course, students learn and develop the skills they […]

We are aware that technology changes the way we teach and teachers’ roles in classrooms. However, how many of us fully understand technology integration means not just the use of technology tools in the […]

Whose job is it to teach the NETs standards to students?

I say every teacher’s job. Technology should be embedded in every subject area and the NETS should be taught in every class.  NETS for Students (NETS・S) […]

We all agree that graphics help our understanding on certain information dramatically. Information graphics (Infographics) are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics […]

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with Hiragana and Katakana.

The Japanese language had no written form at the time Chinese […]