On September 24, a remote workshop was held at the Ehime General Education Center’s “Komadori Classroom,” an educational support classroom. This time, we challenged students to make computer-operated toys by combining programmable batteries, blocks, and craft materials. Each time, we get to watch the students’ activities closely through the remote and learn many things from …
On September 14th, for the first time in three and a half years, we held a face-to-face workshop at the Hamagin Space Science Center in Yokohama. I recall that the last time we held the workshop was with a face shield. This time, we used Octostudio, a programming tool for smartphones released in October 2023 …
On August 30, we held a workshop on making moving toys using programmable batteries at the Sinno Children’s Club (Minato-ku, Tokyo). It has been a year since we held our first remote workshop here last summer. Over the past year, we have gradually improved the equipment and materials used for the workshop, based on the …
On August 9, we held our third workshop on making moving toys using programmable batteries at an after-school day service in Kanazawa. The workshop was scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m., but when we connected remotely at 9:30 a.m., the work had already been completed. It seemed that some of the kids had already started …
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On August 2, we participated in a workshop for children held at Panasonic Center Tokyo with members of the project subject “Creative Learning Design. It has been 3 years since I have attended a face-to-face workshop for children. It’s been a long time so far😅. This time, elementary school children will experience making light objects …
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Adults are no match for children. I always feel this when I see children at workshops. Curiosity, concentration, and the ability to learn something. These are truly wonderful abilities that children are born with. There are a lot of things happening in the workshop. How did you find that?” and discoveries that we, as adults, …
Bringing workshops and facilitation into your daily life. Workshops and the facilitators who appear in them are somewhat extraordinary. Perhaps it is good that they are unusual, but since I am going through the trouble, I would like to incorporate them into my daily life. That’s all I’ve been thinking about lately. A life with …
Since my discharge from the hospital at the end of March, I have been teaching classes and seminars remotely while doing rehabilitation to get used to life in a wheelchair at home. A little over 20 years ago, I conducted a robot building workshop connecting children in Singapore and Japan using a videoconferencing system and …
In September, a programming class using PICO Cricket will be held in a special needs classroom in Hachioji City. First, we held a trial session for teachers. During the 90-minute hands-on session, we showed six teachers how to use PICO Cricket and how to program, after having them look at actual works created by their …
Programming education has become compulsory in elementary schools and is also gaining worldwide interest in early childhood education. Programming may sound very difficult, but don’t worry. You can have a lot of fun with it. Not just fun, but serious and enjoyable. I would like to introduce a programming workshop we recently held at a …
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