- Online education where you can study anywhere you want, as long as you have an internet connection!
- Children will be taught by a professional early childhood education teacher with their favorite Doraemon.
- Class content is not cramming, but is designed to naturally engage children's interest.
Dora Kids Online" is an online educational service that allows students to take lessons from anywhere using zoom. Based on the popular children's character Doraemon, the service proposes a new learning style in which basic learning is conducted through interactive live lessons and a workbook that is delivered to each student once a month.
The service received an award for excellence in the "BabyTech® Awards 2022 Children's Learning and Play Category. The BabyTech.jp editorial team interviewed Hiroka Fujisawa, brand manager of Dora Kids Online, to learn more about the service, how it was developed, and how it will develop in the future.
We spoke with...
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Inc.
Yuka Fujisawa
With live lessons and workbooks via ZOOM, you can have fun learning with Doraemon!
Editor: Thank you very much for your time today. Could you begin by giving us an overview of "Dora Kids Online"?
Fujisawa: Dora Kids Online is an online educational service for children from kindergarten age to third grade elementary school. It consists of live lessons using zoom, which are held three times a month and last 40 minutes per lesson, and a workbook delivered monthly to your home. The instructors for the live lessons are also in charge of Dora Kids classrooms (editor's note: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Inc. operates about 100 preschools nationwide), and in addition to their extensive experience in preschool education, they have received special training for online education.
Dora Kids Online does not study a specific subject, but rather uses a cross-curricular "theme-based learning" method. In this method, a theme is set each month, and children deepen their understanding of that theme through interactive communication between the instructor and children in live lessons.
Editor: What exactly do you do?
Fujisawa:For example, we have an activity called "Explore Your Home," in which students search for objects in their homes based on a theme. Through these activities, students learn about letters, shapes, colors, and numbers, and we have created a learning method that is not limited to the teaching of letters and numbers. In addition to these activities, we also have 10 minutes to work on a workbook that we deliver to the students once a month. Doraemon appears in the movies that open and end the live lessons.
Editor: In the home exploration, do the children actually walk around the house away from the screen?
Fujisawa:Yes. If the theme is "Let's collect yellow things," we ask children to collect as many yellow things as they can find in their houses. Then, I ask them to present to the instructor and other friends how many yellow things they found, what kind of yellow things they found, and so on.
