Practice Report of Programming Education Support Activities related to the GIGA School Program

Abstract

From FY2020, programming education had been started in stages at elementary and junior high schools. Moreover, GIGA School program by MEXT also starts to provide ICT device for all students and network infrastructure for all elementary and junior high school. Authors have been conducted cultivation of volunteers for school education from 2018. Almost 30 senior members were joined the learning program and support for club activities in several schools in Niigata city. Under the COVID-19 disease, it is difficult to conduct these supports in face-to-face. In this paper, practice results of support for club activities by using function of application for on-line collaboration have been reported. The effectiveness of joint use for programming materials and communication between students in different schools have been discussed.