REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Taiwan ]School [ Lu Jiang International School ]JP School [ Sanno Junior High School ]Teacher [ Verona Lee ] Grade ( 7 ) Member ( 80 )Teacher [ Chie Maruko / Chisa Kajita ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson*The covid-19 situation and impact on the world
English* How the international community works together to contain Covid-19
for a better world*Do an in-depth research about Japan.
History*What actions have Japan taken to curb the pandemic and how they work.
*Develop the painting elements and design the matching layout
Art*Create the mural painting draft* Drawing & painting
Social studies

ICTHours
648Learn how to analyze and organize the issue that affects the country

4*Surf “Johns Hopkins” and “our world in data” to have an in-depth data
analysis.
*Make an infographic poster about covid-19 in this country. Use statistic &diagram to describe how it affects our lives and the world.
* Learn video conference, making videos and power point presentation.

8# Theme and Message of the muralTheme

Peace & Nature – Harmony & Celebration
With peace & nature, we can enjoy harmony & celebration to get through the pandemic

Message
United thoughts toshare with the world

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained Students learned how to work on this project and deepened the research.
 Students have better understanding about Japanese culture and school life.
 To know that we are connected to each otheras global members. We all have theresponsibility to make the world a better place to get through this pandemic.
 Create
aninternational
collaboration
experience with Japanese partners andencourage them to learn more about the world
and care others from different countries.

Points for further improvement
The network sometimes didn’t work smoothly,
we will fix the problem and make it steadier.
Students may need more presentation skills to
make their points clear and improve theirdesign and layout on the theme graphic poster
for better comprehension about the theme.
Carry forward this perspective and spread theglobal message to the world and be moreawareness to these SDG issues around their
daily life.

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers Students pay more attention to the global  Teachers learned how to use the Forum toissues and shape a widen perspective to thecommunicate and work on the collaborationworld.
with Japanese partners.
 Students are more willing to learn and share  Getting to know better about Japanese culture
their ideas about global news. They also
and school life. This experience inspired
discuss what is happening around the world.
teachers to develop more SDG curriculum and They love this project very much and beenintegrate the global issues to teach.
much interested in learning everything about  We really enjoyed this Artmile project andJapan.
learned a lot from it. Thank you for all thesupport from the Japan Artmile office. You
make the work better!

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

Sep.

Sep.
Oct.

What you did
Your students’ attitude/reflection*Wrote greeting cards
Students were very excited and*Made school introduction engaged in these activities very much.
and greeting video.
*Research Japanese culture
Deepenthecovid-19
research about its dataanalysis through usefulwebsites: Johns Hopkins’s
world map and our world indata.
They did an in-depth
research and compared thepandemic situation between
Taiwan and Japan.

Very involved and engaged.
They learned the different actions thegovernments took would contribute tohuge impact to the country.
They are also very proud of Taiwanese
government for its rapid and proper
reaction toward this pandemic.

Subject
EnglishICTHistory

SocialStudies
EnglishICTUNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Oct.
Nov.

Dec.
Jan.

Jan.
Feb.

Made a covid-19 data report
withpower
point
presentation and infographic
poster. We shared thesereports
withJapanese
partners
via
videoconference.
Students brainstormed how
to design the layout andmatch the other half. With
the help of art teachers, themural has been worked very
well.
Students
drewandcompleted the mural. We
also displayed the mural to
the local community andshared the SDG ideas withthem.

They made a lot of effort to do theresearch and very excited to meet theirpartners through the skype. Students
also learned how the governments dealt
with the crisis.

We were so excited to receive the muraland were very impressive on their work.
They enjoyed the painting very muchand they did good job. It’s an inspiringexperience to them.
They are proud of what they haveachieved and enjoyed the experience tobe part of the global community. They
are also more aware of their global
responsibility and paid more attention
to these world issues.

EnglishICT
SocialStudies

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 effectCross-cultural
understanding

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Evaluation

45

Active learningand action

5

Collaborating withdifferent people

4

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
It’s great experience to introduce your local culture to others and also
get to know the diversity around the world. Students learned different
values and perspective from the interaction and video conference. We
all have better comprehension about their culture and school life.
Students learned how to do an in-depth research and data analysis.
They used resources and infographic to compare the information
between different countries about covid-19. They developed theirperspective and deepen their thinking.
Students learned many ICT and PPT slides skills. This learning project
also helped them to develop the digital video making skills andpresentation abilities. They were also thrilled to have their first timeinternational video chat through skype.
Students learned that teamwork takes time and efforts. To engage in
an international collaboration requires cross-cultural understanding aswell. When doing a presentation, English is an important tool and theylearned to speak it clear, simple and slow to make their points
understood.
They are so excited and thrilled to achieve this mural. When we
displayed the mural to the community, many people congratulated
their wonderful work. Students are proud to participate thiscollaborative project.