This paper describes current situation and future direction of school lesson and learning with ICT. Firstly, I arrange the situation of school lesson and learning with ICT in our country. Moreover, I introduce some projects of the activity of the ICT utilization in the school to realize the understanding of learning and the advanced ICT utilization. Then, I survey some activities about ICT utilization to support the acquisition of competency needed in the new age. Finally I introduce some activities of the learning support and the class support that our society can contribute to in particular.

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We evaluated the ability of an automated remote system that uses a small portable sensor for coaching inline-skating. Motion data collected from a sensor attached to the body are transmitted via smartphone to a server, where the kinematic features of the motion are analyzed and appropriate real-time feedback is provided to the skater via the smartphone. Feedback is determined by comparing the kinematic features of stroke duration and both the angles and transitions of upper body directions with target values. The remote coaching system was evaluated by comparing inline-skating movements in three trials: pre trial without feedback, trial with feedback and post trial without feedback. The results showed that skating movement improved both test and post trials.

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In nursing education it is important to learn the problem-solving process to provide appropriate nursing to patients. This kind of problem-solving in nursing is called the nursing process. In this research, we developed a tool to support the drafting of association charts (AKaTool: Associate Kango Tool) which are utilized for the purpose of clarifying problems from collected patient data in the nursing process. By using this tool, students are able to draft association charts more easily than when writing by hand or using tools developed in our previous work. The results of an evaluation experiment targeting nursing students confirmed the following 2 points. (1) The convenience of the AKaTool is high for the nursing students that are no good with computers. (2) Association charts can be edited in a shorter time than when writing by hand.

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