2018年6月1日金曜日

Innovation Project - Learning and Sharing through Skype

May 18, 2018
Today. we Skyped for the second time and with two different countries; Sweden and Belgium. We were surprised to hear kids younger than us asking difficult questions such as “Is there a lot of poverty in Japan?” We were also surprised by the technology they had. They never use paper in their class! It was very fun and we learned a lot from them.

<Questions for Mystery Skype with Sweden>
Are you in the northern hemisphere? - Yes
Does your national flag have 3 or more colors? - No
Do you border the sea? - Yes
Do you speak English as your official language? - No
Are you in Europe? - Yes
Do you live in Russia? - No
Are you in Sweden? - YES!!

<Questions about Innovation Project to students in Sweden>
Minecraft is famous among Japanese people. Please raise your hand if you use Minecraft. (Most students in the room raised their hands)
It cost 700yen for us to use Minecraft. Is it free in your country? - No
How old are you?

<Questions for Mystery Skype with Belgium>
Are you in the northern hemisphere? - Yes
Are you in Asia? - No
Are you in America? - No
Are you in North America? - No
Do you border the sea? - Yes
Are you in Middle East? - No
Are you in the eastern hemisphere? - Yes
Are you guys in Europe? - Yes!!
Are you in Belgium? - Yes

What language do you speak? - Dutch
How old are you? - 10 to 12
Are you in a public school? - Yes
What does your school start? - 8:30am
What time does your school end? - 3:30pm
Why are there may foreign people in your country?
(Belgian students are from 38 different countries and regions like Suriname, Bosnia, Senegal, Palestine, Tibet  and do on.

<Questions Belgian students asked us after Mystery Skype>
What kind of religion do you have in Japan? - Most of us are a kind of Buddhism, and some are Christians or something else.
In recent news we heard that Japanese railway company apologized for the train being late for just 5 minutes. Is it true? - Yes
Is there a lot of poverty in Japan? - In some big cities yes. But few.
Did you ever had war in Japan? - No since 1945.

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(Teacher’s comment) 
On May 18, we connected with students in Sweden and Belgium as the part of Innovation Project (http://www.innovation-project.info). First, our students in the 1st year played Mystery Skype to find where they are and then we shared what we learned through this project with them. We were very impressed to see the video about prototypes of new smartphone that Belgian students shared on the webpage of Innovation Project. We were also pleased to answer the questions about the prototype we made for water issue. 
Thanks Emma in Sweden and Oliver in Belgium for connecting! 

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