REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Australia ]School[ Hillman Primary School ] Teacher [ Fiona Nutz ] Grade ( 4-6 ) Members ( 21 )JP school [ Hamagawa Elementary School ] Teacher [Kozue Kochihira ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Social Sciences
History
Digital technology
Art

Conception of the lesson

HoursSDGs

6

How City of Rockingham got their coat of arms

1

Video conferences, creating power point presentations, creating videos

4Concepts of creating a mural3# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

With the 3 Rs we can create a peaceful Earth.

Message

Reduce, reuse and recycle to create a beautiful and peaceful Earth we can all enjoy.

United thoughts to sharewith the world# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained*Significantly improved their knowledge of the SDGs andwhat we are doing locally to promote this.
*Became aware of how students in Okinawa promote theSDGs.
*Learn more about the Okinawan culture.
*Learn more about their own city (Rockingham) and it’shistory.

Points for further improvement*We are limited with the software we can use for videoconferences although this is improving.
*Was difficult to get it finished in time and we didn’t havemuch time to appreciate the finished mural.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers*My students realized they had a lot in common with *It was great to see countries from all over the world
students in Japan.
participate in this project for the Olympics. I would love to*Appreciated art from around the world and all coming see all the murals in person.
together for the same reason.

# Flow of the Activity

ContentMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on thetheme

UNITE
Message ofMonthJul.

Sept.

Oct.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Dec.

Feb.

What you did*Power point presentation
sharedontheforum
introducing students.
*Short videos introducing theschool shared on the forum.
*Webex video conference*Guest speakers*Individual student researchYour students attitude/reflection*They got to practice some of their
Japanese completing the powerpoint.
*They learned they had a lot in common
with students in Okinawa.

*Learned about the SDGs and how theycould help to protect the Earth and some ofthe programs already run in Western
Australian to help meet the SDGs.
*Forum messages*Learned about what is happening in*Creation of posters
Okinawa regarding recycling programs in theschool and the community.
*Forum messages on the *Increased their confidence in their own art
design of the mural.
abilities.
*Drew and painted our half of *Learned about their own city history.
the mural after research into
City of Rockingham localhistory.
*Local paper report*My students were disappointed we didn’t*Facebook and Twitter posts
have time to appreciate the mural as a whole
school due to the deadline.

SubjectJapaneseDigitalTechnology

SocialSciences

SocialSciences

HistoryArtTechnology# 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 effect
Understanding yourown cultures
Understanding yourpartner's cultures
Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)

Evaluation

54443444

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

2Scenes / points teachers felt the effects*Ideas for designing the mural.
*Self reflection at the end.
*Discussion with students after watching their videos and video conference.
*We were able to organise some local guest speakers to come and speak with
our students.
*We had some technology issues with the video conferencing but once that wassorted out it was fantastic to talk live with our partner school.
*This is something my students are still working on.
*The engagement of my students and willingness to get the mural complete –even coming in on their holidays.
*We enjoyed reading and sharing the forum posts.
*My students increased their self confidence in their drawing and painting
abilities.
*We didn’t get much of a chance to celebrate the mural and share it with ourwhole school.
*Due to COVID-19 we didn’t get a chance to celebrate with our partner school
either.