More schools are using information-communication equipment and some are even using the technology to carry out exchanges with other schools in distant places.
Yoshiki Ishii, a teacher at an elementary school in Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture, began using "Wai Wai Recorder," online collaboration software sold by JR Shikoku Communication Ware Co., in his classes about three years ago.
"Students can expand the scope of their schoolwork by hearing the opinions of other students," he said.