Social Studies and Civics Education Methods Utilizing the LoiLoNote School

As the new coronavirus infection spreads from the end of the 2019 school year, various educational activities that have never been experienced before have been tackled in order to somehow secure education for students, such as thorough basic infection prevention, temporary school closures, distributed school attendance, and online learning, as a response to the situation. As a way to improve the teaching of social studies and civics education methods from the 2022 academic year, we planned classes that aimed to give students a real sense of the actual situation at school sites while taking into account the actual conditions at school sites in the Corona Disaster. In doing so, we placed particular emphasis on the perspective of active learning, that is, students learning and practicing independently, rather than passively. We report on the class practice, including a study of the advantages of using the LoiLoNote as a tool for exchanging opinions and thinking in a face-to-face class in which sufficient consideration was given to infection prevention measures.