Hakusanroku Journal 白山麓ジャーナル
October 2, 2019
Hello everyone! Summer vacation has ended and it has now been a couple of weeks since classes have started here at Hakusanroku campus. Students seem to have spent a nice holiday and look refreshed to tackle this new term. As for my summer vacation, I had the chance to visit Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea. It was busy, but a lot of fun!
In my last journal entry, I wrote about how second year students had to write a journal during summer vacation about a scientific article they had to read related to STEM. Students had to read the scientific article and then write a summary and their thoughts about it to finally hand in their journal after returning from summer vacation. They also had to present their journal orally to teachers on September 20th. The scientific article topics they chose ranged from astrophysics, renewable energies, archeology and much more!
Students seem to have had more trouble writing their journals than orally presenting them, struggling a little to express themselves in written form. However, during their presentations, they did a good job vulgarizing and conveying the important information about their article to the teachers present. It was also very interesting to hear what they thought about the articles and why they thought the discoveries and topics presented in the articles were important for the future of science and research. I think the presentations were a success and I hope it made students more interested in learning about scientific discoveries and realize how they relate to what they are leaning here in school. I am looking forward to repeating this activity next year with our current first year students!
Jason de Tilly
皆さん、こんにちは!夏休みが終わり、白山麓キャンパスでの授業がスタートしました。学生たちは楽しい休暇を過ごし、リフレッシュして新学期に臨む準備ができているように見えます。私個人の夏休みはシンガポール、マレーシア、韓国を訪れる機会があり、忙しくも楽しい休暇でした!前回の白山麓ジャーナルで、STEM関連の科学論文についてジャーナルを書く2年生の夏休みの宿題について書きました。学生たちは夏休みの間に科学論文をひとつ選んで、そのまとめと感想を書きました。9月20日には先生たちの前で書いたジャーナルをプレゼンテーションする発表会を行いました。選んだテーマは天体物理学、再生可能エネルギー、考古学など、多種多様でした!
どうやら学生たちはジャーナルを書くことよりも人前でプレゼンテーションすることのほうが得意なようです。書くほうに少し苦労しても、先生の前で行った発表では上手に論文の重要な情報を視覚的にわかりやすく伝えていました。論文の感想や、その科学的発見が人類の未来のために重要だと感じた理由が聞いていてとても面白かったです。
今回のプレゼンテーションは成功だったと思います。これによって学生が世の中の科学的発見にもっと興味を持ち、それらが学校の学習内容にどう関連しているのか気付いてくれることを期待しています。来年、このジャーナルの宿題を現在の1年生を対象に行うのが楽しみです!
ジェイソン・デ・ツィリー