TOP
Schools have always had great toolsets to begin with:
「A physical classroom connects the teacher and the student, and the “contact" exchanged in the classroom connects the student with the lesson.」
Can anything replace this “contact" that can be interpreted without burdening teachers and students with IT? When we thought about it, we realized that schools have great tools that have been in use for a long time.
That is the “timetable"
Timetable originally has lesson plan in a table composed of dates (days of the week) and times, where “teachers" and “students" are linked. Simply communicating through the “School Timetable" will dramatically reduce the burden on students. It is also convenient for teachers to organize information (homework, impressions, etc.) gathered from students.
Therefore, the application terminal. “Komachi’s” development began with the concept “a contact tool for teachers and students using a timetable."
What are we today？
In march 2020, when schools were closed due to coronavirus. We were receiving unusual inquiries from our clients, which provided application services to support the operation of cram schools.
「Information gap with students」
In response to the inquiries, our staff asked school teachers, children, parents, acquaintances, and alma mater about the situation in the field.
During the process we finally understood the cause “there is an information lag with students."
Top 5 student issues in an online school
It is no secret that COVID-19 has impacted many industries in the world, and such is education sector. Because it was impossible for schools, colleges to stay open during pandemic, the education sector was forced to move the classes online while teachers and students did not have a choice. Which seems like a good strategy but with this change comes a whole lot of inconvenience especially for students and teachers.
Online learning is completely new for them which requires a lot of work. Let’s jump into top 5 problems students are facing in an online school:
Top 5 issues faced by teachers in an online school
Teachers are the backbone of any school or curriculum. When COVID-19 hit, it shook the roots of educational system. And ever since, schools are moved to teach through online modes, which brought in a specific set of challenges for teachers to overcome as well. Now, teachers along with students are slowly growing accustomed to this new way of teaching and learning.
So, lets look at a few challenges’ teachers are facing because of online school:
Top 5 ways to make online school experience better
As we all know, the world has changed drastically. People now understand the importance of adaptability. Especially in the education sector, there wasn’t enough time given for neither teachers, students nor schools to move their infrastructure and come up with a way to make online schools more engaging and less messy and tiresome.
Let’s see the top 5 ways to make an online school experience better. Here we will only talk about the structural problems, and not about teaching methodologies.
VALUES INCORPORATED WHILE DEVELOPING KOMACHI
PLANNING
In developing “application terminal Komachi”.
There is a concept that we valued.
It can be done in various ways”. “I can do that” “I can do this too”.
Development engineers and customers.
“The more you can do the more convenient it becomes”.
I will think. But is that really the case?
RESEARCHING
If you researched during the corona disaster involving the whole world, you will notice that Japan’s IT power, which should be rich and technical, is actually inferior in the world.
In other words, increasing the features of a system does not make it “convenient”. Rather we thought it would be convenient to keep the base platform as simple as possible and integrate the IT tools.
FINALIZING
It is not necessary for one system to carry out all the functions. “Komachi" makes it easy and bridges the “contact" gap between teachers and students.
If you have other things you want to do, use other tools.
“Komachi" is built so that teachers can make use of the lessons they have devised and worked on, and many IT companies trying to help them can make use of them.
Its mission is simply “contacting".