Japan will use digital textbooks in the classroom

Japan is preparing to pilot the use of e-textbooks in primary schools, thereby enhancing the role of information technology in the classroom for the generation of " indigenous people " born in the era. Internet.

According to the Future School project, starting next month, 10 elementary schools will equip all their under-12-year-old students with tablet PCs and install them in interactive electronic blackboard classes.

Networked devices are installed with software that allows students to trace traditional Chinese characters on the screen or exchange thoughts on a virtual white paper in real time, while teacher monitors the machine. calculated.

This software not only connects students in the classroom but also places them far away, allowing them to discuss and study general subjects.

The pilot project is being implemented in the context of Japan, although it is a leading country in the high technology sector, but behind the Republic of Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom and other countries in the field of IT applications. education.

Japanese students also use the game machine in exams under some programs of individual schools, but not nationally.

The project will be launched in early October with a budget of one billion yen ($ 8.5 million) in the current fiscal year. The Ministry of Communications of Japan plans to raise the number of schools participating in the program to 50 next year and has proposed a budget of 2.87 billion yen.