Abstract

University students go to school once a week as voluntary supporters, and help teachers not only conduct lessons, but also create self-made teaching materials with newly developed technologies such as multimedia-enabled dot codes originally developed by Gridmark Inc. In creating self-made teaching materials, four new software applications (i.e., GM Authoring Tool, Sound Linker, File Linker, and Gridmark Content Viewer developed by Gridmark, Inc.) are used. Each dot code can link up to ten multimedia mediums—such as a movie—, in addition to up to ten voices/sounds. Touching dot codes with a speaking-pen enables audio files to be replayed, and touching dot codes with a dot-code reader enables multimedia to be replayed on iOS and Windows OS devices. The university students - schoolteachers partnership makes the younger students to be able to learn the required subjects with newly educational technologies. For the university students, especially taking pre-service teacher program, such a collaboration is really effective to not only know the class lessons, but also bring more promotive wills to become a teacher.

Citation

Ikuta, S., Tamai, Y., Odaka, M., Nakazawa, Y., Sato, M., Mitamura, R., Akiyoshi, T. & Abe, S. (2020). University Students - Schoolteachers Partnership With Newly Developed Technologies. In D. Schmidt-Crawford (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1766-1770). Online: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved December 10, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/215951/.

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