Makiko Kishi

Meiji University
Tokyo, Japan

Email: m_kishi@meiji.ac.jp
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Social Media & Blogs

Blog: http://m-kishi.com/seminar
Facebook: /makiko.kishi B
Podcast: www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2fcce-fedecc

Bio:

Makiko KISHI (Mako) is a learning designer (designing a learning environment using ICTs) and community organizer. With the experience of media production at a news department after graduating from university, she worked at educational development Center of UNRWA-United Nation Relief and Work Agency-in Syria as an international volunteer for two years. She started various kinds of collaborative projects such as creating music, book, wall painting, etc. for/with Palestinian refugees students by connecting people in the world through the Internet. After the volunteer works in Syria, she started to organize UNRWA teachers’ professional development communities-so called, Lesson Study- with UNRWA in Syria. After the conflict began in Syria, she began to work with teachers, social workers, and local/international NGOs that support refugees evacuated from Syria to Jordan and Turkey to the present.

Besides an associate professor–teaching Media Literacy, Internet Society, Action Research, Solution Approach, ICTs– of Meiji University, she has various kinds of collaboration to develop educational programs in Aisa- not only Syria, Turkey, and Jordan but also India (6 years), Philippines (since 1998), China (5 years), Myanmar (3 years) etc. .Some reports and academic papers on these papers are awarded by the Japan Society for Educational Technology (https://www.jset.gr.jp/english/) , Japan Association for Educational Media Study (http://jaems.jp/), Intercultural education society of Japan (http://www.intercultural.jp/). She is also one of the members of All-Star Japan Project, initiated by Prof. Moro Yuji, a professor of Tsukuba University.