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How digital media has chance or influence the education in Japan ?

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Technology is a powerful tool that can support and transform education in many ways, from making it easier for teachers to create instructional materials to enabling new ways for people to learn and work together. With the worldwide reach of the Internet and the ubiquity of smart devices that can connect to it, a new age of anytime anywhere education is dawning. It will be up to instructional designers and educational technologies to make the most of the opportunities provided by technology to change education so that effective and efficient education is available to everyone everywhere.

The International Tokyo Toy Show is often a good place to spot new gadgets and this year was no exception. On: Tech takes a look at a couple of toys showcased at the trade show this month, and some ideas of how technology can help educate children.

Takara Tomy has transformed one of Japan’s most famous characters into a tiny pet robot. HelloPika is a pocket-sized toy that responds to speech with various actions that include nodding, shaking its head, lighting up at the cheeks and replying “pika-pika,” “pika-chu,” “pika-pi” and other “pika” words. Don’t expect to understand it — it won’t speak English or Japanese. But it will turn toward you when spoken to and has a “pika” answer for everything. It also laughs when tickled, snores when sleeping and can be clipped to pockets for those who don’t want to part with it.

HelloPika may not be the most useful toy, but it’s incredibly cute and at the International Tokyo Toy Show the Takara Tomy booth, visitors were quick to coo “kawaii” at a table full of them chattering away. It will be priced at ¥3,229, runs on two AAA batteries and will be released on Aug. 4, with planned launches in nine other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore and Thailand. “Pika” is, after all, a universal language — even if it doesn’t make much sense.

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The International Tokyo Toy Show is often a good place to spot new gadgets and this year was no exception. On: Tech takes a look at a couple of toys showcased at the trade show this month, and some ideas of how technology can help educate children.

‘Pika-chu, pika-pi, pika-pika-chu’

Takara Tomy has transformed one of Japan’s most famous characters into a tiny pet robot. HelloPika is a pocket-sized toy that responds to speech with various actions that include nodding, shaking its head, lighting up at the cheeks and replying “pika-pika,” “pika-chu,” “pika-pi” and other “pika” words. Don’t expect to understand it — it won’t speak English or Japanese. But it will turn toward you when spoken to and has a “pika” answer for everything. It also laughs when tickled, snores when sleeping and can be clipped to pockets for those who don’t want to part with it.

HelloPika may not be the most useful toy, but it’s incredibly cute and at the International Tokyo Toy Show the Takara Tomy booth, visitors were quick to coo “kawaii” at a table full of them chattering away. It will be priced at ¥3,229, runs on two AAA batteries and will be released on Aug. 4, with planned launches in nine other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore and Thailand. “Pika” is, after all, a universal language — even if it doesn’t make much sense.

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The kid-safe tablet

Sega Toys showcased its Magical Me Pad, a Disney collaboration, which will be launched on Aug. 9. Like a tablet, the Magical Me Pad has all kinds of functions — it offers games and quizzes, has face recognition, and its camera can be used to take and edit video. Perhaps more appealing to parents, though, is that it’s also a useful learning tool.

Sega Toys developed the Magical Me Pad with education goods publisher Gakken Plus, who provided the device’s Japanese to English dictionary and its vocabulary learning games, which monitor the user’s ability and adjusts difficulty levels accordingly. The Magical Me Pad also helps teach programming — a recently introduced compulsory subject at schools — by allowing the user to use Disney characters to simulate coding games.

Priced at ¥16,200, the Magical Me Pad is aimed at children aged 6 and above and runs on four AA batteries. Kids may be more attracted to the use of voice-recognition for its dictionary, which translates spoken words through the voices of Disney characters, or its video functions that will allow them to make YouTuber-like videos. The Magical Me Pad, however, is not internet enabled, so your kid’s data is kept safe unless you choose to export it via microSD. This makes it a good introduction to tablets, without the fear of accidentally coming across inappropriate online content.