SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Special Programs

Mission completed! May to June, 2024 Collaborative Online International Learning for students at Adachi Ward Okimoto Elementary School in Tokyo, JAPAN and Princeton Community Japanese Language School in NJ, USA.

We had a wonderful Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) between students at a public Japanese elementary school and those at an American Japanese language school in NJ, USA. Many students in Japan said, “I was excited!” and they looked very happy. It was wonderful authentic intercultural learning.

Adachi Ward Okimoto Elementary School in Tokyo

Princeton Community Japanese Language School in NJ, USA

May to June, 2024 Collaborative Online International Learning for students at Adachi Ward Okimoto Elementary School in Tokyo, JAPAN and Princeton Community Japanese Language School in NJ, USA.
We will be carrying out COIL between students at Adachi Ward Okimoto Elementary School in Japan and Japanese as a Foreign and Heritage Language Division, Princeton Community Japanese School. While online exchanges have become popular at the university level, they are still on the way for elementary school students. This will be our first COIL for young children, and we are very much looking forward to it.　

Adachi Ward Okimoto Elementary School in Tokyo

the Princeton Community Japanese Language School

November, 2023 Special seminar on COIL at Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

September 2023    Online seminar “ChatGPT and Language Education” for language teachers at School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot released in November 2022 and is a type of generative AI. Aoyama Gakuin University and we invited Professor Cutis Bonk of Indiana University, a world-renowned educational technology researcher, to hold a seminar as part of our faculty development program before the start of the second semester of 2023.