Metaverse schooling to help Japanese city combat growing absenteeism

The Japanese metropolis of Toda, Saitama, adopted a metaverse-schooling service to encourage college students — particularly these staying distant from college — to attend their lessons. 

The metaverse education service opted for by the town of Toda permits college students to discover the campus and research in digital lecture rooms. Nevertheless, the scholars should get approval from respective college principals for attendance by way of metaverse education, confirms native media NHK.

Authorities knowledge showed that 244,940 Japanese elementary and junior highschool college students have been absent for no less than 30 days in FY 2021. NHK’s report highlighted a fifth grader’s curiosity in chatting on-line as a substitute of attending college in particular person. Whereas the kid has not bodily attended college in over two years, they shared an curiosity in assembly up with mates to play outside video games, akin to tag.

Whereas ongoing efforts to enhance college attendance stay a problem, Japanese officers are putting their bets on metaverse education to assist college students join with the folks round them.

Sugimori Masayuki, the top of Toda’s training middle, hopes to see metaverse college students develop up and finally reside independently in society.

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The town of Fukuoka introduced a collaboration with Astar Japan Labs because it strives to turn out to be the Web3 hub of Japan.

The mayor of Fukuoka, Soichiro Takashima, confirmed the town’s aspirations to guide the Web3 drive, as he said:

“We now have to do within the context of Web3 what massive firms did for the world when Japan was sturdy.”

Astar Community founder Sota Watanabe revealed his intentions to “work intently with Fukuoka Metropolis to draw extra builders and extra entrepreneurs.”