Tatsuya Hotta's laboratory at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, collaborates with the Tsukuba City Board of Education in Ibaraki Prefecture, Tokyo Books published in textbooks, and Rentrans, which operates an ICT (Information and Communication Technology) platform for learning, to study digital textbooks. Start a demonstration experiment that utilizes the information for improvement and evaluation.

 According to Rentrans, the demonstration experiment visualizes digital textbooks and teaching materials for children and students, browsing history of prints distributed by teachers, operation logs, etc. for a total of 7 schools, 5 public elementary schools and 12 junior high schools in Tsukuba City. In addition to using it for analysis, teaching and improving learning, we analyze the impact of using digital textbooks on children and students from academic ability surveys and questionnaires, and learn what kind of influence the aim of the lesson and the efforts of teachers have on children and students. Consider from the history.

 The implementation period is from October to the end of March 10.Elementary school uses the national language of grades 2022-3, society of grades 1-6, health of grades 4-6, and English and digital textbooks of technology and home in junior high school.

 With the spread of the new coronavirus infection, online lessons have increased at school sites, and the digitization of education, such as the use of digital textbooks, has begun to progress rapidly.In response to this, the utilization of educational big data is required to reduce the burden on teachers who are extremely busy and to realize individually optimized learning.

reference:[Lentrans] Tsukuba City, Tohoku University, Tokyo Shoseki, Lentrance Conducted joint empirical research for utilizing learning history data of "cloud version digital textbook"

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