"No one will stay" Education ICT An intelligent society needed in an era of shrinking labour force Yoyo Uchida Co., Ltd.
The "Future Cluster" will further evolve within a year.
It can be said that it is the symbol of the educational ICT cause of Ueda Co., Ltd., a "fusion cluster" located in the corner of the head offices of Tokyo and Osaka. The correspondence between active learning (active learning methods) and new learning guidance essentials, etc., in order to verify the ICT environment in practice, the company independently developed a variety of learning systems that can feel the future learning space.
I interviewed that space a year ago, and in order to experience it again for this article, I was surprised by the further progress.
One side of the wall in the third direction becomes the monitoring state, where the text is written directly, the animation is operated by sound, it is directly reflected on the flat panel terminal used by students, and it can communicate remotely with the size of the room in Osaka. Although the real-time and bi-directional across space still exist, the analog code, camera, microphone and so on can not be found to connect the communication equipment. The code is completely wireless, cameras and microphones are embedded in walls and tablets, and video and sound are clearer. In addition, the answers of students in remote areas are instantly graphed through QR, the expressions of students are read through tablet applications, and alerts are issued. Once again realize that the evolution of the ICT of education is endless.
In the Future Cluster, President Okubo personally published it. After a year of technological evolution, the editorial department can't hide the same surprise.
According to "GIGA School Conception", more than 1.33 million terminals will be introduced.
Although the company did not relax its hands on technological innovation, it expanded the scope of on-site ICT in schools across the country in 2021, resulting in the main business. This is the "GIGA School concept" mentioned in the report published last year, and it has a great impact.
The so-called "GIGA School Conception" is ordered and promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, which equips one child student in public primary and secondary schools across the country with a terminal (tablet computer). Ling he's revised budget for the first year, coupled with emergency economic countermeasures and coronal correction, a total of 600 billion yen was also mentioned in the last report. It was officially implemented last year, and 8 million tablets were introduced in schools each year. Yoko Uchida, the company in charge of the business, supports the introduction of 1.33 million tablets. And, in order to be able to use immediately in the field, but also corresponding (various settings of IT machines, software installation, etc.), for two consecutive periods to achieve the highest profit in history.
Chairman Okubo reviewed the year as follows.
"to be honest, I am very happy to get the highest yield with the above orders envisaged a year ago, but the most important thing is to deliver the goods smoothly without big trouble, which makes me feel relieved. I think 1.33 million of this large number of tablets, actually completed in about 4 months from introduction to setup, it is precisely with the on-site technology and experience. "
While feeling the tailwind of such a society as a whole, President Okubo calmly talked about the education ICT cause of the company in the future.
「『GIGAスクール構想』整備の一方で、文科省は『学びの保障オンライン学習システム(MEXCBT)』の開発を進め、そのなかで弊社の学習eポータル『L-Gate』の基本機能が活用されてきました。昨年11月には『MEXCBT』機能拡張版の提供が開始されましたが、現在は約250団体、200万アカウントを超えるお申込みをいただいています。弊社も『L-Gate』製品版でさまざまな学習系データを収集しながら、将来的には他社システムともスムーズに連携できるデジタル教育環境の整備を目指します。一方で、教育現場では教室自体のITインフラが課題で、環境格差をなくしていきたいと思います。また、現場でのIT人材育成も急務であり、特にITが苦手とされるベテラン教師が技術を克服できる研修方法などを模索します。目指すのは、誰も取り残されない教育のICT化です」