REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ MEXICO ]School[ Universidad Veracruzana ] Teacher [ Mitsuru Kurosaki ] Grade ( 9 ) Members ( 5 )JP school [ Kaiseigakuin High School ] Teacher [ Hiroshi Yamane / Eisaku Ichikawa ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Communication The Mexican students tried to exchange their ideas with the Japanesein Japanese
students.
Both side of the students studied their own traditional festival and presented
Cultural studies
them to their partners.
Paintings

The Mexican students did the painting works for two weeks during December.

Hours4230# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeWalking towards our future
There are two characters in the mural: a Japanese boy, who will be named Akira, and a
Mexican girl, María. These characters will grow up and represent Mexico and Japan.

Message
United thoughts toshare with the world

Akira is running away from environmental and factories’ pollution; on the other hand,
María looks for a future where her community owns drinking water. Both characters wantto achieve a future where those problems do not exist. A better future. Now running
across the bridge, both have grown into teenagers and are closer to each other. Thebridge symbolizes the potential bond between the two countries, as if it was the red
thread of fate, and at the end of this bridge, both countries join to achieve the goal of ashining future. At this moment, the boy and the girl are now adults whose careers breakgender roles: María is a civil engineer, while Akira stays at home, managing the money anddoing housework. The two of them are married now and have a baby, who symbolizes thebond between Mexico and Japan. The baby’s name is Mirai, the Future.
At the back of the mural, we can see windmills and a dam, representing renewable energy.
There are as well some animals, such as a fox, a Japanese squirrel, a dog, and white
doves, symbolizing peace.
Future is not certain, but if we work together, we can accomplish whatever we want.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
During this term, we were able to meet on Skype. I would like our partners to improve theirThanks to the attention they received through this communication channel through the Forum in theactivity, the students’ attitude was friendlier towards next season.
them/their partners.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
We observed that both sides of the students made We observed the change of attitude by our authority
good efforts to communicate with their partners of University. They were able to have a bettermore and more during the skype meetings. And this understanding of the Artmile project. Also, thanks totime, they discussed about SDGs goal with more this project, they realized that there are many
detail with their partners.
students willing to study Japanese in the Language
center and faculty.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonth

What you did
They introduced themselves
during the Skype meetingand on the forum.

Your students attitude/reflection
They tried to explain themselves and
Mexican culture in Japanese.
They discussed about the problems of
Mexican society and explained them totheir partners.

SocialStudies

We see that the students always tried tothink about the partners’ opinion.

Artunited thoughts

They started reading theSDGs goals and founddifferences between Japanand Mexico.
The Mexican students talked
about the theme of theMural painting.

CREATE

Finished painting and sent it
to our partners.

The Mexican students worked hard tofinish on time. Also, in this season, ourlanguage center help to send the Mural
painting to Japan for the first time.

MEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofMural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

Jun.Sept.

Sept.

Nov.

Dec.Feb.

Mar.

We are going to do the lastappreciation work throughSkype on March 27th.

Hope they can feel free to discuss andcommunicate in a better way.

SubjectEnglishJapaneseArtCommunicationArt# 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

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects
They explained it very well to the partners.

Understanding yourown cultures

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Understanding yourpartner's cultures3

They need to study hard the Japanese language and culture so that they
can read accurate information.

4As mentioned before, they had a lot of information, but they need tostudy hard the language.

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)

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5

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

They did very well.
Hope they could be able to express their points of view with their own
critical stand or position.
Also hope to see their initiative attitude.
They need to learn to work for with each other.
We find that they have good expression abilities through this project.
They collaborated well on the mural painting work and forum.

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