hi everyone i'm naoko from the ministry of economy trading threat and industry of japan i'm very pleased to have the opportunity to speak here a position five years ago we learned the project future classroom making the model case of learning innovation with edtech venture companies teachers and children in japan today at this session we'd like to introduce how the japanese government has realized learning innovation and what kind of vision we aim for in the future with two wonderful speakers from active companies now let's start with the first speaker from metis asana some place okay uh thank you for introducing me now go um i'm descrisano uh director for educational services industry uh ministry of trade india and the trade and ministry of economy trading industry we call it methi methi has had started a learning innovation project this is a pilot project of a one-to-one device uh learning environment uh this is uh that we have started this project from the year to 2018 and uh as a first speaker today uh let me share what is happening in our project and uh what's uh what the what what our vision is so uh this is the uh this is the structure of uh multi ministries cooperation in japanese government in the context of this transformation in education multiple ministries promote policy making together after giga school initiative launched in their fiscal year this physical year 2021 in the center digital agency works and my ministry my team is this red circle ministry of economy training industry we are in charge of especially uh private educational service and also a female resource development policy for the uh in this fourth industrial revolution area uh from the corporate side and we um met fatigue and the ministry of education ministry of communication and the council for science technology and innovation and also a personal information protection commission these multiple uh agencies collaboration uh start to work uh from the from from this fiscal year so um actually one-to-one device policy uh has started from this uh fiscal year 2021 in japan this was a kind of a revolution in japanese education scene but actually this has a very long history the from the uh from the year 2017 ministry of education uh ministry of education issued a new curriculum standards uh starting from their 20th year of 2020. this was very uh this was very very uh this gave a very uh sensational message for japanese educational thing the goal was independent interactive and in-depth learning and happened and acquired acquired for all the students but in order to make it the we need to um we need to make a curriculum open to society and then also the older schools how to make effort for curriculum management happened but in order to make it we thought that the all the students and all the students and all the teachers need to have a one-to-one uh these two devices but most of the japanese schools do not have such a digital environment at that moment so ministry of economic during the industry methi started to study this learning innovation project the pilot project this was pilot phase for one-to-one device environment the concept was to uh in the con as a concept as a concept we have the two pillars of concept the first one is self-driven individually automatic learning the second one is project based learning we call it steam there's team based project-based learning was necessary for making students as a future workforce in the fourth industrial revolution era so after one year from the start of the running learning innovation project we had some of the successful cases in our pilot project and we japanese government had started to launch the one-to-one device policy we name it giga school initiative the central government and the local government work together to provide all uh the one-to-one device for all their junior high school and junior high school and elementary school students that was almost at the more than nine million students and after that and now we are trying to provide uh one-to-one device for all the high school students as well we are in the middle of the process so after that now we uh uh now we now we we are in the process of a kind of a design dissemination phase of innovative example of the pilot projects the matisse learning innovation project the concept has a as i mentioned we have two pillars the one is the self-driven individual individualized learning environment and the second one is team-based project-based learning i think it's this this chart in this uh left hand side is very very important the playfulness is centered in this chart this playfulness now this plane of playfulness uh the half the cycle of the creation and knowledge and knowledge building this cycle this this cycle moves and uh also um the personalized learning plans and the personalized learning log database will works this cycle smoothly and uh let me share let me share this slide uh the left hand side sliders this is a this is a typical japanese classroom scene settings teacher speaks unilaterally then students they passively learn standardized context contents at a uniform pace in the classroom and every student are subseted in the designated seats but uh look at the please look at the right right hand side the right hand side is right right and right hand side is uh that the pictures uh took in your pilot project in our pilot project in our learning innovation pilot project the students have seen i have seen it in the uh not in their designated places the students actively actively learn diverse contexts at a very varied pace and either individually or collaboratively without having to sit in a fixed sheet so and uh please uh please see that see two videos there's two videos from the uh from some uh from from a case in a public public junior high school [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay ah [Music] um [Music] [Music] so uh this is the case from uh uh public junior high school uh the this this this junior high school uh introduced ai-based digital uh digital textbook named cubina which was uh which was provided by uh was provided by um compass a venture some venture company in tokyo so our next slide that we have we have another slide which is mainly a [Music] steam uh the steam-based project-based learning scene [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] these two videos uh shows us the new style of using the use of time in school so the basic knowledge in the textbook can efficiently be acquired through the uh using airtech while the same saved time uh can be made for research and project-based learning now you can see you could see the uh you could see the the thing of a stream based learning project-based running using a flying students flying drones or many and using 3d printers to make something actually these two videos these two videos were in the in the mathematics classroom so um actually uh many many people think that learning learning mathematics is sitting in some classroom and listening to what teacher says and write down the uh the the the the mathematics formula uh teacher wrote in the blackboard and and and the reside research the formula in the in the small test and the periodical test so but students enjoyed and students and students enjoyed learning personal personally personalized personally optimized learning using using ipad and cubing at the same time using the same time that they enjoyed the steam-based project-based learning so um this is the content this is a content concept of a project uh this pilot project shows the the students every all the st every student uh can can acquire the basic knowledge in the textbook uh very very efficiently uh using attack while the saved time can be made for um used for research and the project-based learning so and uh at the same time our pilot project started launched um steam library this is an online library of digital content for students and the teachers to start stream based learning this theme library provides many of the real social issues and the real social issue can be a uh can be a textbook uh introduction in introductory text uh text uh materials uh for students and teachers to start team-based learning this is a steam library this is a steam library this is a library a digital library for students and teachers to start stem education project-based learning our message that i hope i will hope many students and teachers use this uh this digital library to start their project-based based learning in japan in japanese school scenes uh it is uh we we we don't have much opportunities uh to experience project project-based learning using the uh real social issues actually uh when i was a student in high school in junior high school it was very very boring for me uh to study in science and math science and math because we failed i i felt i felt uh science and math was nothing to do with my life but after becoming a bureaucrat policy makers i faced many many real social issues and i felt really uh important to study basic science and math to understand the the essence of the social issues and uh if if if i could if i could if if i make a really efficient uh policy to tackle with the uh such uh real social issues in front of me uh i need to i felt the importance of understanding the very basic science and science and math knowledges so the this is using this i hope that using this science steam library many many students many junior high school and high school students as a future change agent feel that necessarily and the necessity of getting knowledge and acquiring a very basic science uh science scientific uh knowledge and skills uh so um we have started we have launched uh thanks to uh anarchism uh today uh later he he will he will um introduce this sim library uh more in detail so um in order to disseminate the learning innovation project pilot project we also have launched a subsidized program in the government subside program uh edtech introduction introduction subsidized this was this uh this pro this project has started from two years ago and more than seven thousand schools in all of japan uses this subsidized and start to use attacks various kind of attacks uh including um including a fuku harassance and some other very cutting-edge technologies so today we have we have two uh leaders from japanese air tech scenes igs institute institutions for global society and tanaka sans study bari from study barry so uh let us uh let me let me start the uh two presentation from um from wonderful guests mr fukuhara-san and tanaka-san uh thank you very much i'll just sing it for disney graduates in our presentations about metis initiative so clear the scener uh so so let me just you know maybe just introduce myself uh i'm masa uh just at ins eo at institution for global society igs uh iges has just completed ipo as edutech farm at the end of the last year uh so indigenous businesses are just centered around on the assessment and the training of non-cognitive skills some people say just competencies or soft skills under management of a blockchain platform in education for the link between schools and companies i'm going to explain this in our party later but just not registering i'd like to thank the metis for you know having this opportunity to talk here at south by southwest and i'm so excited to be talking about uh this lava initiative we have been creating with metis uh for this adaptable learning understanding contents and further just you know i would like to discuss future collaborations uh just with the oldest audience here thank you uh carson uh hello i'm yuki see you at studybari we just founded in 2020 so it's been two years working in the education industry and we are the startup and i'm ambitious to do the ipo like person in the future and before i founded the company i was responsible for venture investment in the barrie and south so i hope that my english is not that poor but today my voice is not that clear because i got uh the fever of 38.6 degree uh i haven't got the pcr inspection yet so i'm not really sure if it's um uh omicron variant why not but um i got a delta variant uh vaccinated twice and then now i'm having 38 degree so but thanks to the technology and the internet you know it's easy to communicate and even i um being able to you know participate in this sessions and you know technology is also helping in the education industry a lot especially you know in the school scene without technology you know teachers will not be able to abstain from the school so um you know leveraging the data and internet we can do and help the teachers a lot uh one is uh probably uh adaptive running topics so uh of course and do you have any thoughts on the adapter adaptive running yeah so um so for just know adaptable learning so just you know our large challenge in just creating just adaptable learning is to just create data so data uh is creating the basis for developing artificial intelligence just you know or just you know in other words you know our machine learning models are just you know that would provide with the right contents to the right learner so based upon just some sort of data for cognitive capabilities so in additional forces and capabilities historically we have used the exam for assisting assisting each person just including capabilities and the father as asano sang just you know uh just shared uh thanks to just you know uh cubina uh just you know helped by just in a metis they have created tons of data uh around just cognitive capabilities it means it's the basis for adaptive learning in cognitive capabilities so it's a large personal change it's a creation due to the you know great initiative by metis but uh just you know another challenge to clear just you know or just you know or is still just left this is non-cognitive capabilities how to just you know judge assess non-cognitive capabilities such as creativity problem setting adjusting skills or just seeing a global mindset so indeed just you know for corporate site they have used 360 degrees evaluations however how can we just use 360 evaluations in the school context so then we just created artificial intelligence for reducing the bias of assessment by students for more accurate and effective non-cognitive capabilities i'll just you know by using our latest technology due to this reason we have just now just accumulated the data uh just in our just you know this is you know we just you know called this as i grow up to share intelligence growth grow this you know disease in assessment too by smartphones and also just as uh samsung pointed out you know thanks to the you know subsidies by justin meti many just in public schools could easily adopt this latest technology and the further also just as assange san jose explained due to due to the recent change of japanese curriculum for the fourth industrial revolutions non-cognitive capability is digesting core objects and horizontal or just you know our synapse so then just you know this just an eye will just could be used you know for this system of purpose and the father just you know uh since you know we are just in business also just in hosts this is 360 variations for the companies so then this we could just use this carrier data for more than 740 000 different people's data so what type of just your non-cognitive capabilities each job just in hearts then just you know we could just bring this back to the school just in context and that's you know this is kind of the latest justin phenomenon just to link between companies and schools in cognitive just you know non-cognitive capabilities this is what just we are working with metis and also just let me just briefly just explain just you know there are just a case study in mere prefecture with methi so near prefecture is you know the worst part of japan so you know we have just you know provided just with this steam simulation-based learning one-year online program so industrial this context you know criticism we could just create this with the metis at first i still just remember remember almost you know three years ago i just talked with asano-san asana-san just mentioned oh from now on mobility as a service would be the most just one of the important just you know just in the industry for the future so why not just still teaching refuel i don't just batteries but just because influencers it is out of the interesting japanese curriculums and the father just you know for just you know teaching mobility as a service person we also just need you know we have to just you know teach optimizes optimization technique in math and the father just we have to also just teach you know matrix for having students understand just you know other data just in analysis so then this results beyond that just you know a mixed curriculum uh metis and we work together also with the samsung companies like nissan and also others in rare japanese companies we have just created this winery assimilation program but also just you know we just also worked with university of tokyo for just assisting whether uh this simulation just in a base program is effective from just you know academic perspective and also just you know we just also use just adaptive learning for this yesterday content then just seeing artists you know university of tokyo just in professors have just found out clear statistical evidence for just you know or for the usefulness of this a one-year simulation program for this mobility as a service and entrepreneurship just a creation adjusting program so understanding question with statistical evidence and the father you know this is you know finding is now just in one of the most famous entertainment journals and that's just anything you are interested we want to just share this you know with just you know in this audience so so that that's interesting for just my part so maybe just talk some do you want to just have something oh i just you know people just programmed you know inspired by asano sun's future just in education so sometimes you have any just comments thank you very much it was very very um exciting project i i remember from the uh from the first day so um did you actually um it's very happy if you could give us how much change they um does how much changing in their student's mind and their students their attitude of for learning yes so yeah criticism just pointed out just in the previous you know speech so because just to be honest before this program students couldn't connect between math science and real social problems because you know some of you just you know you just might know just me prefecture is very famous for or just you know our car industry because you know these kinds of suggestions you know it's not facing they're just the next challenge from just you know gaffer or ford they're just know just in one year program students couldn't get us all we have to learn math we have to just learn this you know science resume just an item for this for the future yeah i i remember that most of the students from work from technical technical technological high school or commercial commercial business high school so um actually not so many students were scored at a high school most of them are not high school high school students in in in the context of uh tests but um yeah actually i was very surprised to see that many many students were excited to learn math and the sciences so uh so uh what was the uh what do you think was there a trigger um to change their motivation motivation so so i tried to say now when the secret easiest in a finance you know they could get just a tabulate i'll just run just in one just a tablet to one just in students so they can just use tablets as someone some point you know to give students to be honest for their parents uh just you know economic conditions to be not so great but that's just nature just you know a buy just you know tablet for a student also just in our schools just also counter invite since the death is disturbed and also just it's a kind of simulation game for becoming a mass entrepreneur so i think just playfulness you know the key for this success that was very very important key word the playfulness yeah i think so yeah yeah in actually uh in most of the school scene the key word game or playfulness it's far from actually a standalone in and then moderate high school and the junior high schools but it was uh it was very very important keyword for uh for stimulating um students uh students motivation i think i just gained preference just always you know because you know all these students are just you know from say any of these economic backgrounds they're just the basis they want to just you know be just you know or just you know always just seem excited about new things excitement yes it's very very important key word yeah i think so um do you have any questions to masa yeah uh when i was a high school student you know there's no such gear like steam or mars or you know any technological viewers and you know that my teacher always asked me to you know study hard and get uh higher scores in the examination and so on so i cannot imagine you know how the children will grow with such an esteem and other technological stuff and in next 20 years probably you know the children will grow faster than us and probably they will call us well they are all generation and so on so uh i can imagine future but it's very interesting to heard you know teaching the team in the school thank you and uh i was i i remember the highlights of the uh hugo horoscons project was the uh the another side of the highlight was um [Music] the focal horizons project uh connected connected many schools in the uh in the same project in the same prefecture the connecting not only a technological high school but also a commercial high school and an ordinary uh um liberal high schools as well and uh many students and many uh teachers and others and other experts outside of the schools for example from automobile industries digital industries and so on many experts and many students various kind of students and the teachers get together and then making some projects realized and communicate and also i grow evaluated how much changed how how much students in the teachers change uh so um this project was the uh uh it gave gave us a lot of uh inspiration using digital technologies and using data and uh how much how how how much and the the value of digitalization yeah so i think it's now you're crazy now uh the way of evangelizing related education is just in because you know radiation or policy from just metis at first it's in the first year it is a metis under just we are decided to create it's a kind of prototype of using two different schools just in one just for just you know the concentration just on commercializations and the one just for technology so there's many teachers in this area just you know just came to you know these schools to just watch how just meet your goals so then after that i just met create subsidies for other schools why not just see now using just you know uh the contents we have created here that is the future classroom just you know this is a polishing mix would be the key for just just you know just enlarging uh just in this descent area yeah yeah the interesting part is that uh the carson's company is taking place in this kind of steam project in the public school and you know in the past you know uh we couldn't imagine you know in the school teachers are teaching the stm topics because you know they are mainly focusing on the entrance exam and you know uh indeed there's two big educational marketing japan which is slightly different from the other markets so let me explain the market difference so in japan uh the there's a market called the public sector which is mainly mainly talking about the schools and another one is a private sector market which is uh relatively big and they are for preparing for the entrance exam and uh let me talk about the giga initiative because you know it's it really important to talk about you know how the you know ipod and other pcs are distributed in the public school you know in the past there's no such pcs we have to go to the in a pc room and you know share and do one pc and you know did nothing in just watching you know the pictures and so on so uh let's move on to the giga score initiative thank you tanaka please show the pleaser let him know what the steam level is yeah so let me explain the same library so this project was uh initiated in 2020 which is the founding year of our company and um on the same library you know there are so many japanese large enterprise to small companies which are providing interesting stem content without no need to go to the library so the student can easily access to this online platform and they can access to their uh well established uh steam content from the giga initiative school pieces and tower like ipad so um we are still developing this uh library for this years and it's it will be released in the next week but uh this is still uh you know growing and uh is expanding and this year more than uh 80 contents will be added nearly and you know almost all the contents are very interesting so uh uh something can you briefly dive into what what are the the contents stored in this team library um actually from this year uh in the school uh high school curriculum students start students will start project-based learning for that curriculum methi started to build an online library called the steam library which provides uh steam education contents as i said and the various groups of uh corporate top research institutes universities and ngos uh provides uh many many programs uh in this uh in this website but for example britannica japan creates learning materials and contents of the various cutting edge science science science research topics in collaboration with the uh for example the university of tokyo advanced industrial science and technology and other top research institute in japan videos and lesson plans in two languages um english and in japanese are available welcome were covering scientific research topics such as all drive technologies and activated sludge care robots and hydrogen and so on children encouraged to enter the interdisciplinary uh learning interdisciplinary learning and here's another topic here's another example like crossfields which is very famous japanese ngos uh creates unique content the the topics they provide is a what is probability and affluence there are several interviews videos of people living in rural cambodia and in africa and some other developing countries and the via videos of real landscapes will provide the reality of the such a different society the quite different society from japan all all contents are related to s diseases some stds and sdgs uh children can be engaged in a deep and extra greatly uh learning with the uh real problems at the end of yeah it's good to see that uh there are so many contents on the library in poverty and uh france is never discussed in the japanese uh school machine but you know with this uh steam contents we can easily uh run you know what happens in the in those countries and currently we have more than 70 contents and from the next month as i said we are going to add more than uh 80 contents for the steel medications uh also methi and we study barry have kept developing the libraries to improve ui and us of course it's important to interact with students but also uh there are so many uh worksheets and materials for the teachers so teachers can also get some information about the stem education from that library um do you have any welcome last time topics or uh you know the summary just you know what justin and jesse and i just you know talked about in the past just you know the contents you know how it is inaudible could just provide with the students you know at first just by computer-based project-based learning even just in computer 19 they could just increase non-cognitive capabilities for just you know or for the readiness for just you know or just you know the fourth industrial revolutions by learning smart cities and recent mobility as a service but also at the same time they could just learn programming smart economics and others so just backed by just you know our metis and that just makes just initiative just you know wow just in one just you know just pitch tablets to just one shoes that's great uh we are also providing pvr online products called time as in study vary outside the estimator which connects the school scene and classroom to the society uh the problem of the random pvr at school is that they are struggling to find identical programs and resources which describe the real world issues um the simulator is a great example of uh dual opener as as also said but still they are starting to find a way to continue the writing process to cover the program uh contact supports pvl with the real world program um for example this is the case one but uh the cryptocurrency exchange company provides uh the series of courses that explain what is blockchain uh even you know others doesn't know what is the blockchain but not just saying hey uh blockchain is risky and you shouldn't uh have the cryptocurrency to the students uh instead our approach is to let students understand what is the blockchain and cryptocurrencies are and then evaluate the risk of risk by student themselves the interesting part of this project is that students were not only analyzing the risk but they also started investigating how they can use the bitcoin for the payment during the school festival for example um here various types of programs for using the bitcoin but students started to set the problem by themselves and then deeply uh investigated what they need to solve to use the bitcoin in the festival another uh example is that fukushima in the at the prefecture students are creating their local hazard map which locates which part of their town are under the disaster risks such as heavy rain and earthquake although such hazard map is published by the local government itself student leveraged their scientific knowledge like steam to analyze the potential risk of their own town and created an original hazard map by themselves from the scientific perspective of course there are lack of analysis on the map with a product and that student could get feedback from the subject matter expert from the university and society and they can run the pdca cycle by themselves by getting advices from the experts um the reason we are providing such uh previous program is that uh as if godzilla and assassin said uh for the writer of the 21st century uh as all of you are aware we need to focus on why does each of the students need to study and learn so hard so in this fast-changing era though running things is still important but why why and how they study is getting more important i believe and that is why we are providing various topics in the steam library and time touch what do you think about these topics master hillson so i think yeah so crazy now uh focus on why this is just so critical because so especially because you said before that you know fourth industrial variations so i think you see in the world we know what is the answer so but it's now just you know more just look at this much volatile and certain just you know you see it's related to this more complex interesting words just in the students and the father just we ourselves have to find our solutions together we collaborated so then this of course is you know for just a decent purpose just project-based learning would be the key and the further non-cognitive capabilities with the key as well thanks uh is there any uh interesting uh uh the project to expand the this kind of stem education i i have heard of some project uh working with the mickey and master hillson's company so can you briefly explain uh the homegash project which is also related to the production yeah so let me just explain yeah so or just you know creating one challenge for the future so nowadays you know due to just a great scenario you know initiative by metis uh just you know we're just in her budget for supporting this latest education uh however of course it's always you know there's a ceiling in budget so how can we just you know offer this great education for all just so you know so this is what just you know now just together with metis we are now challenging ourselves to make a sustainable education for the web 3.0 in which just government companies school citizens and the pharmacists and economic ventures also of course tonight just companies are just working collaborating on the broke changes in a platform we call it so it's a kind we just you know return back to just you know uh to those who just you know are supported they the adjacent growth the platform system provides just all students access to where to qualify steam education not just in steam just libraries so just you know provide just selected advertisement for students uh just so in this year's model just clearly companies provide selected advertisements for students and their supporters while just ensuring strict individuals data protections because it offers great collaborations perspectives and religious in equality because companies can provide with money for supporting this religious education by using this blockchain's protocol why because each individual could just you know put more data for companies or just you know advertisement understand companies to make more accurate advertisement so just by using the latest technology not just web 3.0 each individual's data protection can be just equipped so then with modus accurate advertisement since your companies can make just in a more security advertisement they get could just give just more tokens more money for just you know this type of just education and that's you know for those who just watching a decent advertisement could get tokens for just purchasing their children before this related system seamless contents so chris said this is the latest uh challenge obviously we have just tons of different challenges in just you know in front of us however in the long run uh not only from this government support but also company support which must be so critical for just a sustainable just in education sustainable society wow uh that's very uh fabulous and uh it's probably a little bit difficult for the uh the especially teachers to understand what is going on here but um it's this is the the platform and um you know the other uh players outside japan can easily onboarding on this uh the platform as well so uh do you have any um uh ideas or any do do you are you looking for any partners in the global yeah so let me just explain just because clearly just you know the reason why i just you know i just you know i'll just you know come here for talking christmas of course you know one justin is just in the house you know japanese society japanese government and private sectors have worked together or just in a much better education for all but at the same time we are looking for this global partners from the audience so so let me just summarize what we can do with you so as i mentioned our just an idol could measure long just you know our cognitive capabilities more accurately with ai buyers free 360 feedbacks and hidden personality traits but also as i mentioned one year just seen us just seen a mass just one year simulation program for just you know nurturing creativity as well as there are just programming skills and the further the film is you know our battery's knowledge and the furthest mathematics and capabilities unless why not just using such a just great uh simulations made by just you know collaborative the collaborations from the japanese government and you know just now igs so on the father financial center for ongash project we would like to expand this is an ongoish platform to the rest of the world so if you say you are interested would love to just work with you so under the clearance this project i've seen now is that just now this is just enough we just have started a first baby step surprise we could collaborate with companies schools and so on we could provide with better education stem education for the fourth industry agency liberations by the support by the government companies and the students this is so we'd love to just work with you please you know just contact us yeah uh the content is sales grow uh 360.com suppressed emergency of course for any inquiries um so in summary so the analytics thing is drastically changing and the japanese market has lots of potential and room for the startups not only in japan but also also japan um the key point of expanding ethic business outside its original country is to find the right partners in each market i believe and hence there are lots of potentials for all of all of the world's startups jumping on this uh huge japanese educational market by working closely with us uh all ethics startups in japan also there's lots of unique initiatives launched by the japanese government and well-established products i mean in the japan market so we japanese tech companies are ready to go outside japan and ready for welcoming the tech startups from the world let's build a great ecosystem together and our effort will be fruitful for the next 20 to 30 years so as usual said japanese added edited market is expanding with me due to the gigascope project and also the influence of kobe we are expecting japanese expansion growth drastically and i hope the international audience keeps your eyes on the innovator including 10 wonderful startups who join this year's host by sessions [Music]