The authors have been conducting a class for upper elementary to junior high school students to learn about intercultural communication. However，as the Covid-19 restrictions were implemented，as it ...became difficult to visit schools. To solve this situation，this paper examined the challenges associated with conducting these classes via Zoom and practiced it for junior high school. The post-questionnaires and student’s feedback indicated that the learning effectiveness of online lessons were similar to that of face-to-face lessons. Further，this study found room for consideration on how to reduce video disturbances and the stress of students due to the mixing voices between classes.
Objective: This article presents an evaluation of the instructional effectiveness of on-demand poster presentation as an academic practice in class.Field activity: A total of 136 students, of which ...95.6% were female, participated in the study. The participants took a “health promotion in child care,” a compulsory subject for the licensure of child-caregiver and child education teacher. After gathering the information for a specific type of child disease, the participants were asked to summarize the information into a poster and create short video presentations of what they learned. To evaluate the instructional effectiveness of this learning style, the participants’ feedback for the following items were obtained: (1) feedback in terms of this learning style as a presenter, (2) feedback in terms of this learning style as viewer, (3) general good points about this learning style, and (4) difficulty encountered during the process. The topic model by the Latent Dirichlet Allocation was used to extract the instructional effectiveness from the participants’ feedback.Assessments: The analysis showed that this learning style allows the presenter to add additional explanations to the presentation, to retry recording as needed and to insert visual aids using video editing software. The accessibility of the learning materials is also an advantage. Students can watch at any point of the presentation as frequently as they need to solidify their understanding. This does not only assist in the transfer of knowledge, but it also motivates self-regulated learning.Future implications: On the other hand, this learning style pose a challenge to future educators. There is a need to ease their anxiety and relax their tension towers the presentation. They also need to provide adequate technical assistance throughout the learning process and to create an enabling environment for interactive communication.
Art workshops for elementary school children have usually been held in face-to-face communication. However, due to the recent situation, it became difficult to hold workshop with numbers of students ...in a place. This study considers effectiveness and problems about practice of online workshop for elementary school children in 2020. Under the setting of designing costumes for a fashion show in space, the children used modern techniques to draw on T-shirts with cloth paints. After the practice, a questionnaire survey was conducted for the participants. The finished work was evaluated as a photo book of a fashion show. We clarified the results and problems regarding the development of teaching materials that take advantage of the characteristics of remotes, and the methods of guidance and support for expanding the range of children’s expressions.
Online Lesson study is an important form of promoting teacher professional development, with the help of the online learning platform. During a lesson study cycle, teachers cooperatively set goals ...for professional and student learning, plan a lesson around these goals, modify, teach, observe, analyze, reflect jointly and share thoughts about the revised version of the lesson. Teachers could obtain lots of feedback from peers in the process of online lesson study. However, some teachers often get lost and cannot effectively participate in the activities of online lesson study. What's more, some teachers lack sufficient expertise to provide high-quality feedback on another peer's teaching. To address these issues, this study proposed a procedural scaffolding to assist teachers in improving the quality of peer feedback comments and learning participation behaviors in a lesson study context. Sixty primary school in-service teachers participated in the lesson study carried out at an online lesson study platform. Their peer feedback contents and participation behaviors generated during the lesson study were collected and analyzed to examine the effects of the proposed approach. The results showed positive effects of the procedural scaffolding on enhancing teachers' quality of peer feedback contents and learning participation in online lesson study.
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