Cutting edge of class rooms and facilities for new education in Japan Visiting Photo Report 21/Mar/2014 Dairoku Junior high School ,Bunkyo City Tokyo, Japan It has about 70 years history and has new school building this year ( it is still under constructing now)

Class room ( Big white board in front, Equipment Box in left side of front. Big interactive board behind the white board, see next slide) Equipments in class room (Documents camera, PC and Media switcher, DVD player)

Open white board -> interactive board (95 inch) Because the projector is ultra-short-throw type, It doesn’t make shadow of a teacher

The interactive board is big enough to use like an ordinary white board. Teachers write and operate the interactive board by using pen and fingers. It is similar operation of smart phone.

PC room it is not new style, It is a ordinary PC room in Japan. A0 Printer (Usually it makes banners) Document scanner Interactive TV

Science experiment room for Chemistry and Biology Science experiment room for Physics and Earth science (Long tables are for Physics experiments)

Equipment for science experiments by students Microscope for each students There are not many kind of equipments, but necessary or basic equipments are enough for each students.

Conference room ( It can held about 200 people) Theater projector for conference room

Gymnasium/ event hall (entrance and graduation ceremonies are held here) Monitor of photovoltaic (PV) power system Roof of the gymnasium is panel of PV power system, Solar energy covers the almost of all electricity of the school

Indoor pool(25 m) In winter, it is covered as indoor gymnasium Meeting room for teachers Room for Music lesson Room for Home economy