Abstract
The NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute has been regularly conducting nationwide surveys of schools and individual teachers since 1950 to study the ongoing situations of the media environment in schools as well as to overview the usage of NHK’s educational services such as broadcasting, the internet, and events. The AY2024 survey aimed at individual primary school teachers for the first time in three years. On this occasion, the survey methodology was partially changed from past surveys of teachers.
Compared to the AY2021 survey, there were few changes in the proportions of teachers with tablet computers (from 96% to 97%) and those with access to the internet (from 98% to 99%), but those using them “almost every day” have increased for both. Furthermore, teachers who let pupils use personal computers or tablet devices distributed to each child (“GIGA school devices”) in the classroom have reached 98%.
As to the use of media learning materials in the classroom, the utilization rate of “NHK for School” (primary school teachers) has increased from 88% in AY2021 to 94%. The second most used was YouTube (73%). These results show that videos were actively viewed in classes.
In terms of teachers’ support for pupils’ home learning, just as in AY2021, many used printed materials such as “print-version textbooks” and “commercially available workbooks and handouts” while there was limited use of video materials and “simultaneous interactive online teaching” tools.
Since the use of one-to-one devices and video viewing is spreading in the classroom due to the government-led “GIGA School Concept,” it is necessary to consider a total design of learning encompassing both school and home learning.
