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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On July 27, for the first time, we held a remote workshop using Chobittobox at an after-school children’s club. This time, since the target audience was mostly younger children, we made a toy that works without using a computer, using a programmable battery. At first I was a bit frustrated because the iPad and mobile …
A remote workshop was held at a school children’s club. This time we used the 10-button version of the programmable battery to create our work. This programmable battery uses 10 buttons to turn the motor on and off so that you can be more aware of programming the movement of the motor. I first introduce …
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It has been a year since I started living in a wheelchair. I am still a beginner🔰 at driving, but I am getting used to living with a wheelchair. When I go outside after being discharged from the hospital, I feel that the view from my wheelchair is a little different from what I can …
Scratch workshop was held in the Metaverse “MetaSupport Campus” operated by the Ehime Prefectural Board of Education. Except for the initial Zoom meeting with the teacher in charge, all meetings were held in the Metaverse. It reminded me of the meetings I had held in the past at schools and science museums, where I had …
