Japan schools to start using digital textbooks from 2024

By on August 26, 2022

Japan’s education ministry plans to move school children to digital textbooks from fiscal year 2024. The first to do so will be English classes for elementary grades 5 and 6, as well as junior high.

Mathematics classes, from fiscal 2025 at the earliest, will gradually transition to digital textbooks. For the time being, paper textbooks will still be used in tandem with e textbooks, to get them used to it.

On Thursday, the ministry received wide approval after an interim report on the use of digital textbooks was presented to a working group of the Central Council for Education, an advisory panel to the education minister.

In English subjects, digital textbooks with text-to-speech functions are expected to boost the students’ pronunciation and listening abilities.

In mathematics, visual learners are expected to benefit from  graphs and diagrams.

The ministry has yet to decide when exactly the use of digital textbooks will start for other academic subjects.

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