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Your Name and Title: Atsuko Shiwaku

IIME develops 21st century skills through international collaborative learning

School or Organization Name: Japan Art Mile (JAM)

Co-Presenter Name(s): 

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Japan

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Teachers from elementary to high school

Short Session Description (one line): 21st century skills of the students are rising through an international collaborative learning project called International Intercultural Mural Exchange (IIME).

Full Session Description (as long as you would like): Japan Art Mile(JAM) has been promoting an International Intercultural Mural Exchange (IIME), a project of international collaborative learning including joint-creation of a mural as the outcome of learning.

According to the reports and questionnaires submitted from the teachers, the students skills of interactive communication, information and communications technology and information literacy are markedly rising by interactively learning about each other online, and their creativity and collaboration skills by creating one mural in cooperation. And especially teachers develop their skills of  problem-solving and decision-making by facing difficulties in the process of collaboration with the partners and their students also learn these skills through their teachers. These skills are the very 21st century skills.

I will present not only the effects of the project but the systematic support of JAM to manage the big international project which 4000 students and 200 teachers participate from 30 counties a year. So far 23,602 students from 756 schools have participated in IIME.
 

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

http://www.artmile.jp/info-in-english/

https://www.facebook.com/artmile.jp