Nov. 11, 2025

Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd.

 

Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka City; President: Hiroyuki Matsumoto; hereinafter “DIS”) has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Toda City Board of Education (Superintendent: Tsutomu Togasaki) and Intel Corporation (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Makoto Ohno; hereinafter “Intel”). Based on discussions underway at the Central Council for Education regarding the next Course of Study, the agreement aims to conduct advanced verification of future-oriented STEAM education.

 

This agreement is intended to create new examples of STEAM education environments. DIS will leverage the knowledge it has cultivated through introducing and supporting STEAM education environments and further expand these efforts. As a demonstration site for this effort, a new learning hub equipped with the latest digital equipment, STEAM CAMPUS, has been opened at Toda Municipal Toda Junior High School.

 

Through this demonstration project, DIS will advance efforts to cultivate information utilization skills, which are currently being discussed as a foundation for inquiry-based learning in the forthcoming Course of Study, as well as create examples of next-generation learning through the practice of STEAM education. Furthermore, in collaboration with partner companies nationwide, DIS will work to support the establishment and introduction of new learning infrastructures in schools and educational institutions.

 

As digital society advances, the education field urgently needs to foster the ability to solve problems in a cross-disciplinary manner that transcends the boundaries of humanities and sciences. In the next Course of Study currently under discussion at the Central Council for Education, information utilization skills are gaining even greater importance as the basis for learning in which students independently pose questions and engage in inquiry.
Together with the Toda City Board of Education and Intel, DIS aims to realize a digital equipment education environment in which students can quickly give form to the questions and ideas they generate by making full use of information utilization skills, and deepen their inquiry through trial and error and collaboration. This demonstration study aims not only to introduce new equipment, but also to instill inquiry-based learning and the development of information utilization skills across the school as a whole. As a top distributor supporting the IT distribution industry, DIS will draw on its knowledge of supporting educational sites to lead efforts related to the establishment and introduction of new learning environments.

 

STEAM education integrates science, technology, engineering, the arts (liberal arts), and mathematics into cross-disciplinary learning that fosters inquiry and creativity. It embodies the inquiry-based and self-directed learning that Japanese education seeks to promote, cultivating the qualities and abilities required to solve diverse and complex social issues through the use of digital technology. In addition, establishing learning environments in collaboration with local communities and businesses is considered an essential component.

 

This joint research will be conducted at Toda Municipal Toda Junior High School as the demonstration school, focusing on the following initiatives:

 

1. Opening of STEAM CAMPUS, a learning hub for creating the future
   STEAM CAMPUS positions the entire school campus as a learning environment that fosters creativity, going beyond merely establishing STEAM classrooms.
   In addition to the central Media Room (Core Lab), high-end STEAM education environments have been introduced into special classrooms such as the science room, woodworking room, art room, and music room, which had not previously been fully developed. By redefining and building these spaces as an integrated learning environment, STEAM CAMPUS, the school promotes more specialized, cross-disciplinary, and creative learning.
   Each special classroom provides a state-of-the-art environment in which students can make use of and apply a wide range of digital devices and tools, such as high-spec PCs and monitors, 3D printers, digital microscopes, pen-display tablets, music production (DAW) equipment, and video streaming systems capable of chroma-key synthesis, tailored to the characteristics of each subject, enabling them to give concrete form to unlimited ideas.
    
2. Support for class design through teacher training programs
   The key to the success of this demonstration project is ensuring that faculty and staff can fully utilize the new educational environment. DIS provides an original teacher training program that, for the first time in Japan, adopts Intel’s STEAM education lesson framework, Intel® Skills for Innovation (Intel® SFI). This program incorporates the framework proposed by Intel and systematically develops lesson-design skills for project-based learning (PBL), which is essential for inquiry-based learning. Through this initiative, DIS also supports the realization of cross-disciplinary learning based on information utilization skills, as envisioned in the next Course of Study, from the perspective of teacher training.
    

DIS has supported the introduction of ICT equipment to educational institutions nationwide through a wide range of partner companies. In addition, together with Intel, DIS has deployed demonstration research on the STEAM Lab Platform from 2022 to 2023 across 18 schools corresponding to various educational stages. Beyond providing hardware, DIS also offers lesson-design training to support the utilization and introduction of ICT. By maximally leveraging its nationwide sales partner network, DIS conducts proposal activities to promote the introduction and effective use of optimal ICT environments.