REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2022
Country/Region [ Mexico ]School[ Comunidad Educativa Yaxunah ] Teacher [ Karina Abreu ]JP School [ Hara Elementary School ]Teacher [ Naohiro Ohta ]Grade ( 5 ) Member ( 20 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
SubjectConception of the lesson
To talk about how could we promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
To investigate about what is our country doing on these themes.
To compare between Mexico, Japan and the world themes as justice, peace,no discrimination, equal right.
To share the information between them.
To prepare PPT information to share.
To prepare presentations.
EnglishTo work on different ways to prevent discrimination.
To write the information to present to their partners in Japan.
To share the information between our classmates and post it on the forum toshare with Japan students.
To prepare some materials and go around the school to share the importanceof peace culture between people with other grades at school.
To prepare the videoconference.
To investigate about Peace culture and equal rights too.
To share the information between them.
SpanishTo prepare PPT information to share.
To design some traditional souvenirs.

Hours7236# Theme and Message of the muralTheme(SDGs) SDG 16 Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Peace culture is reached working with formative process and experiences, based on
moral and ethical principles that are universal. Peace culture tries to create a new visionand mental awareness on human beings focus on how to develop a Planetarium
Humanism. To educate on peace culture and citizenship is a huge goal for every
Message
United thoughts community and especially for ours, but is necessary to solve problems and learn how toto share with theworld
discuss and make agreements in a peacefully way looking for the win to win process asa goal and trying to eliminate violence. It is important to educate persons to be able tointeract with others respecting their differences, knowing their rights and build a newsociety.

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
They worked in a collaborative way.
To continue working on collaborative work andThey developed many ideas for the mural.
respect.
They learned to work in small groups.
They understood the importance of respect and equalrights.
They made a manual to share with school.
# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
They learned a lot about the culture, traditions and We learned to communicate between languages.
activities.
We interacted and got similar interests.
They discovered that students from both countries We learned about each city and traditions.
have similar interests.
They liked to know children like them in another partof the world.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthRESEARCHthe theme

SHAREwith thepartner

Jun.Aug.

Sep.
Oct.

What you did
Introduced schools andourselves with photos and
PPT presentations on theForum.
Researched on the internetand local news.
Summarized the research ina PPT.
Discussed the theme on theForum.
Shared the research withthe partners on one
videoconference withteacher.

Your students’ attitude/reflection
They were excited about learning morefrom Japan and their students.
They made research and discussed
about Peace, culture and justice.
They
investigated,sharedwithclassmates.
They worked in teams to discuss theinformation.
They made decisions and worked in acollaborative way.

Subject

SpanishEnglishSpanishEnglishSHAREwith thepartner

UNITE
the thoughts

CREATEthe mural

APPRECIATE
the wholelearning

Sep.
Oct.

Communicated the situationin each country about
justice, peace, equal rights
and no discrimination.
Thought about theimportance to do activities
to share and be conscious
about the themes.
Discussed on the Forum.
They gave ideas about how to prevent
some actions and what we can do from
where we are and from where we live.

Nov.

We discussed about how towork with kids about how war
has affected the world andthe importance of justice,peace and human rights, weshared our activities andsome phrases and videos on
the Forum, we discussed
about the name of the muraland how was going to be done.

Designed a mural anddecided how to divide it
into halves and which partto draw on the forum.
Drew
aproposal
tocomplement the other half.
Painted the mural.
Sent the mural back toJapan
Reflected the wholecollaborative learning.
Made cookies to sell for
Valentine’s Day to sharewith the school about theimportance of friendship andlove as a way to prevent
misconduct, and learn aboutthe importance of theproject and SDGs withactions.

They worked together on line to give theideas and draw them.
They went to school in small groups topaint.

Dec.
Jan.

Feb.

SpanishEnglishSpanishEnglishArts

Arts

They organized Valentine’s Day activity
and sold cookies to make people
conscious about love and friendship andthe importance of respect.
SpanishEnglish

# 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

Active learningand action

5

On the way, students discussed the importance of peace culture andhow our actions can make a difference.

4They were really active to share information with the rest of the school,
their Japan friends and their families. They created the role of amediator to deal with conflict.

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Collaborating withdifferent people

Expressing in words,
in shape

5

5Scenes and reasons that teachers felt the effects
We shared by the pictures and the videoconference.

All of them worked together besides distance.
The mural was great and kids enjoyed the dialogues with their partners
from Japan.
They enjoyed preparing traditional gifts for them.
They asked for an expert to make traditional kites to send the students
from Japan and decided to prepare the instructions so kids will not justhave them but learn how to make them.