REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2020
Country/Region [ Canada ] School [ Wyevale ES ]Teacher [ Jim Carleton ] Grade ( 5 ) Member ( 25 )JP School [ Nakai ES ] Teacher [ Satomi Kai ]# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
ScienceArt
Language
MathHours

Environmental Protection, Covid-19

10balance, color, symbolism

20reports, letter writing, media creation

10

Statistics

10# Theme and Message of the mural
ThemeMessage
United thoughts toshare with the world

Together We Can Achieve
Together we can defeat Covid-19
Together we can achieve the sustainable development goals
All cultures are needed to achieve success# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained• Appreciation for other cultures• Developed perseverance• Power of collaboration• Ability to interpret statistics• Media creation• Symbolism in art•

Points for further improvement
Some way to overcome the time difference
for a live connection or two# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers• Realization that things are different in other• This was Colleen’s first global collaborative
parts of the world
project and she was so impressed by how• That we are a small part of a global
much her students were intrinsicallycommunity
motivated• That global problems require global• Very impressed by level of cooperation andcooperation and collaboration
care for others that we saw in Japan

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofunited thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/Appreciation

What you did
video introductions

Your students’ attitude/reflection• always thrilled to hear frompartner• Enjoyed creating videos withpurposeSep.
inquiry questions in forums
google slide shows
Oct.

Nov.
Dec.

Dec.
Mar.

Mar.
Apr.

exchanged
ideas
images/sketches

and•
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Japanese students paint in
Dec and Canada in March
Canadian school closed in
January due to Covid••

Completing a video now thatwill showcase the projectfrom start to finish to beshared on our school site
We are having two large
prints made to be hung at
our school and at our board
officeSchool board sharing site
Newspaper••

enjoyedthecollaborative
nature of the researchfound it powerful to get firsthand informationfascinated by statistics
excitedcurious to see how it would turnout
loved watching the process
we were in awe with the qualityof the work in Japan (knew wewould have to rise to meet thechallenge)

Subject
language

Sciencelanguagemath
artsciencelanguageartvery satisfied with result
proud to sharelanguagemedia# 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

Cross-cultural
understanding

5

online researchcreating slideshows and videos

5

Problem solving when working with media and art design
Statistical analysis

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaborating withdifferent people

5

Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects

Enjoyed working on real world issue and creating something meaningful••5••

Expressing in words,
in shape5•••

allowed students to take leadership role in project
developed perspective that they could not have attained
through more traditional means
encouraged our students to achieve their best
variety of methods to express themselves made it engaging forthe students
enjoyed the media making process
recognizing the power of data
developing an appreciation for symbolism in art.