Mito 10／2 Report

• 👨‍💻 Shintaro Aoyama

• 🏫 Gunma International Academy High School, 11th grade

• Table of Contents

  • 📕 Project Overview
  • ✅ Progress Report
  • 💭 Consultation

📕 Project Overview

• In a nutshell, it’s about “connecting lessons across time.”
• Aiming to achieve “synchronous lessons without synchronicity.”

Trade-off between Synchronous and Asynchronous Lessons

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  • While real-time interaction is possible,
    • Challenges like wanting to hear something again, watching a movement in slow motion, or pausing to think arise.
  • There are issues such as these.

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  • While being able to control the pace of the lesson,
    • Challenges like not being able to ask nearby individuals questions or discuss with classmates or teachers arise.
  • There are issues like these.

Therefore,

• Reevaluate synchronicity
• ➡︎ Resolving the trade-off

Teacher ⇄ Student

• Students can interact with real-time lesson videos by

  • ▶️️ Playing
  • ⏸ Pausing
  • ⏪ Rewinding 10 seconds

• ➡︎ Some dialogues between teachers and students become asynchronous.

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  • Aligning the speed of receiving information with the speed of understanding
  • Matching these speeds

Student ⇄ Student

• Making teacher-student interactions asynchronous results in

  • Inability to synchronize among students
  • If there is no dialogue among students, the meaning of synchronous lessons is lost.

• ➡︎ Some student dialogues become somewhat pseudo-synchronous:

  • Later students see messages from students ahead on the timeline.
  • Since they are experiencing the same video again, it can be considered pseudo-synchronous.
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• It’s not completely pseudo-synchronous, but a mix of synchronous and pseudo-synchronous interactions.

• Medium of dialogue: Annotations on the video

  • Annotations are shared
  • For example:
    • “Write opinions in response to posed questions.”
    • “Write alternative perspectives on the lesson content.”
    • “I came up with a good memorization technique, so I wrote it down.”
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✅ Progress Report

• User Testing
• Backend Development

User Testing

• Initially planned for September
• At a stage where it can be conducted
• Facing challenges in distribution
• Issue: Source of lesson videos
  • Currently using videos from school teachers
  • Looking for lecture video sources without copyright issues

Backend

• Limited experience, so trial and error
• Firebase + GCE
  • Adjusting to synchronize while monitoring discrepancies among students

💭 Consultation

• Interaction with teachers
• Clone of NicoNico
• Number of potential users

👨‍🏫 Interaction with Teachers

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• Since it’s real-time, teachers can also view interactions
  • idea: Projecting with a projector

📺 NicoNico Clone?

• There are differences
  • Writing on the video (= including coordinate information)
  • Switching between synchronous and pseudo-synchronous interactions
    • Selecting connecting users
• However, are there any fundamental differences?
• As it stands, it might just become a subspecies of NicoNico?

👥 Number of Potential Users

• Few users own an iPad+Pencil
• Originally intended to be self-contained within an individual’s scope

#未踏2020