REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ Armenia ]School［ Yerevan N198 High School ］ Teacher ［ Kristina Gevorgyan ］ Grade ( 11 ) Members ( 15 )JP School［ Tokoname Senior High School ］ Teacher ［ Makiko Sakakibare ］# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Geography,
Presentation about Japans geography, history.
History

Hours
4

ICT

Education is a great tool for all challenges.

5Art

Sharing ideas about final mural.

7# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Quality education, no poverty, gender equality

Message

Education gives fruitful results: prosperity, equality, sustainability.

United thoughts to share with theworld# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Our students gained a lot of new impressions and They would suggest to have more video calls, to be
impact from this project and cooperating. They acquainted better to understand each other's
became more serious and thoughtful about this SDG cultures, behaviours as well as they can.
points.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Due to cooperating we knew a lot about Japan, its No changes.
culture, geography, people and understood that thestudents had the same goal.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

What you did

Your students attitude/reflection
Later they were glad that we had had
this activity as it helped them a lot.

SubjectGeograp
hyHistorJul.

Improved our students’ language
abilities to communicate more
fluently and to avoid furtherdifficulties
ininformationcollecting.

Sept.

They collected a lot ofinformation about Japan’s
geographical position, symbols.
Then they made a presentation.

They were happy that they had time foracquaintance with your country. Students
even started comparing and finding
similarities.

The students studied 17 SDG andchose 3 of them: Quality
education, No poverty, Gender
Equality. Later they made posters
on the above-mentioned topics
and finally made a final poster
with education tree.
Thestudents
hada
brainstorming, they were thinking
what to illustrate. They had a
video
callwithJapanese
students, shared their ideas,united them. When mural finallyarrived they started painting.

It wasn’t boring for them. They knew a
lot about SDG, its importance, further
impact on their lives and worldwide. They
were proud of themselves as they had
made an amazing poster of education
tree.

Oct
Nov.

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

All the students were satisfied
with the result. The students
think they achieved the goal.

The part of the video call they liked
most. At first, they were amazed at theJapanese students’ painting. They weregrateful for the greeting cards and gifts.
It was something new for them and they
were impressed greatly.
They are looking forward to final reviewof poster.

EnglishyITC

ArtArt# 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 effectEvaluation

Understanding yourown cultures

5

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

5

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)

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

4345
4
45

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
The students made a presentation representing Armenia in all its shades.
They performed Armenian folk dances and prepared poster about
Armenian symbols.
The students were able to find Japanese national dresses, represented
Japanese dances and sport, prepared sushi and had a master-class oforigami.
Armenian students were happy to answer Japanese students’questions, quizzes about Japan.
They organized a video call through Skype.
During the video call they shared their ideas and were able to criticize
and evaluate to finally unite their thoughts.
By making posters and presentation they were actively engaged inlearning process.
During the course there was created a padlet where the students
exchanged information.
The students exchanged information and pictures.
The students were satisfied with their final result and valued theinformation they gained.