Some Japanese elementary school students graduate without sufficient ability to read kanji (Chinese characters). This project establishes a scientific method for children who have completely lost academic motivation to begin and continue self-directed learning.

Objectives

   Due to the advent of tablets and smartphones, it is now possible to centrally aggregate a vast amount of individual learning data. New technology (the micro-step method) analyzes this high-accuracy aggregated “big data” on education, for the first time in the world visualizing growth in ability performance, which was not previously measurable, and provides individual feedback (see Fig. 1).
   All learners are able to reliably improve their performance, and by providing feedback on results, we have guaranteed that children who have lost motivation in particular dramatically improve their independent learning motivation. (See Fig. 2)
   The chain of poverty may be broken by improving children’s independent motivation with individually optimized e-learning.

    Social implementation is beginning at elementary, junior high, and high schools and orphanages in Nagano, Tokushima, Okayama, Kagawa, Tottori, and Fukuoka. This project has been selected as a Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), and it is being deployed nationwide as a national government project. Improving the motivation of low academic achieving children had been an unsolved issue globally, and we are also considering providing this in developing countries to support individual children’s education (see Fig. 3).

URL

https://edu.okayama-u.ac.jp/~shinri/terasawa/index.html