REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2021
Country/Region [ Taiwan ]School[ Zhongshan Elementary School ] Teacher [ Hui-Ju,Wen、Mei-Hui,Chiang、Chuan-Neng,Lin ]Grade ( 3,4,5 ) Member ( 21 )JP School [ Tokiwa Elementary School ] Teacher [ Miku Marunaka, Yasuko Sugiyama, Haruki Ando ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson

Hours

Social Studies• Introduce our country’s culture and understand diverse cultures of Japan.
• Learn about SDGs and explore the issues of the world.
• Think about the the solution strategy of the issues.
• Make a goal of the great vision of the future.

12• Organize sharing presentations in English .
• Practice oral content of online-meeting.
• Exchange ideas and communicate with partners in meeting time.
• Respond to communication questions in English words or speaking.
• Learn Japanese in common and use Japanese when communicating.

12Language• Web Search and Data Collation
ICT• Presentation and Video Production

6• Online meetingArt• Incorporate learning content into visual design• Mural Design and Creation

10# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts to sharewith the world

Let’s realize a happy future where everyone is smiling together.
We hope that everyone in the world can work together to protect precious nature,
biology and history.We also want to achieve a happy future that everyone can be healthy,
live with sustainable development and every child can learn freely.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained

Points for further improvement

They had a deeper understanding of international issues
and SDGs.
They also Improved experience working withinternational partners.
Because of getting more opportunities to learn foreignlanguages, they improved English listening, speaking,reading and writing skills.
The most of all, they reflect on global issues andpropose practical possible actions what they should andcan do.

Due to time constraints, we can focus on theprojects of the searching of SDGs in the first period,
making it easier for theme discussions in the future.
We look forward to incorporating more actions in
the teaching process, for example: sharing throughactual inspection videos, and actual solutions toissues that elementary school students can try todo so as to make exchanges more profound andrich.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?

Changes in the students

Changes in the teachers

The students are more confident in their own abilities
and culture. They’ve also knew about Japan throughtourism, books and other projects in the past, but after
this exchange experience, they have a more diverse andprofound understanding of Japan.E.x: local history andculture, students' learning style and campus life, theepidemic situation and anti-epidemic strategies, etc.
There is a connection of friendship and mutual
assistance among each countries’ students. I think thatfriendship is the biggest gain in the exchange process.

The teachers of our partner schools are very
enthusiastic and experienced. The well-designed
courses and activities have also inspired ourimagination that made us want to tried different
ways to do in our courses.
We also found various forms of cross-bordercommunication, including videos, texts, pictures,etc. Thanks to the organizers for giving us theopportunity to enhance our vision.
Although that, we still hope to meet friends in Japanafter the epidemic has eased.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on thethemeMonthJun.
Jul.

Sep.
Oct.

What you did

Your students’ attitude/reflection

Subject

introduce students, school
They care about foreign cultures inRecognize the mural project great initiative and learn with evident
Know the partner’s school enjoyment.
and the students
Teachers online meeting

SocialLanguage
ICT

They could discover differences andsimilarities also deepen their learning
Learn the SDGs
Discuss
theinteresting from global perspective.
They are happy to meet partners all
topics of SDGs
online, the kids want to ask each
Propose possible solutions
other many questions after the online
and imagined futures
meeting. But they couldn't convert
Students online meetingthe questions into English right away,
it was a pity.
After the meeting, the students
discover the points to make themeeting next time better. They also
know what the partners think about
the SDGs and the future. And there's
one more interesting is they want tospeak in english in class time
automatically.

SocialLanguage
ICTThey became aware that they would
be the person to take initiative forcreating the future.
In fact, they really want to dosomething for creating the future, notjust in the drawing.
The concepts from Japanese kids
are:Let's make life a place where wecan laugh without masks. Let's makethe world a place where people andliving things can live in peace andharmony.The
concepts
fromTaiwanese
kids
are:Protect
everything, including people and theenvironment.
They enriched the knowledge ofJapan, not just about the food andtourist attractions, but also much
more about the learning methods andperformanceofJapanese
student.They also admire theseriousness and performance ofJapaneseclassmates.Italso
motivates them to want to do betterin this project.

SocialArtLanguage
ICT

Design the mural draft
Develop mural theme andmessage
Understand the Okazaki
culture and mural details
Give feedback
Complete the muralStudents online meeting

They have a better understanding of
the SDGs through the drawing time
and take the initiative to care about
global issues.
They are also very happy and havethe accomplishment that they andtheir Japanese partners havecompleted the work together. We’realso looking forward to theopportunity
tomeettheirinternational friends one day.

SocialArt
Creativity
Language
ICT

Design the activities of themural’s appreciate time
Reflect their harvest andgrowth of communication
Students online meeting

The students are reluctant to partwith the last online meeting, but at
the same time, they went all out toprepare, including: sharing theharvest of this exchange, teaching
Taiwanese,
dancing
Taiwanese
exercise and PAPRIKA together.
The students didn’t stop theiractivities although the meeting
ended.
In order to convey their imagination
about the future to more people, they
will do more activities in Taiwan toshare the murals, the idea of SDGSand the Japanese culture theyrecognized.

SocialLanguage
ICT

Focus on the message to theworld
Share ideas with Japanese
partners
Combine each other's ideas
Students online meeting

UNITE
Message of united

Nov.

thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Nov.
Dec.
Jan.

Feb.
Mar.

# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected effectCross-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

Evaluation

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

5# Cross-border cultural sharing# Cross-border video conferencing# Transnational student dialogue and cooperation# Understanding of global issues

4# Ask questions about global issues# Propose solutions to global issues# Propose the future vision for global issues

5# Raise curiosity about partners and schools# Search information about the culture or ecology of both parties# Actively participate in video conferences

5# Learning to unite the consensus of the students in school# Learn how to create consensus when opinions differ# When exchanging opinions, respect each other's ideas

5# Practice sharing their findings and ideas in different languages during
lessons and online meetings# Able to express their own ideas through graphic design, and further
use different languages to convey