Mr. Patrick Newell if co-founder of the Tokyo International School. One of their missions is to develop the school of the XXI century. In his presentation gives a very realistic view of the actual situation of Japanese education. For that, he makes a small observation of how education has been in Japan since the Second World War. Explain how is the Japanese society, their nature. They feel  a natural disaster as an opportunity. A society in constant change.Students are becoming more creative. Japan's potential is certainly enormous and the kind of education that must be recived is focused on new generations. For Mr. Patrick these new generations must open their minds, because Japan is a country that exports many goods.

One proposal is to educate children, connecting with their 5 senses. Using digital tools, digital portfolios…   Finally Mr. Newell referred back to Japanese society, commenting that they are not individual people, they are collective, and for that they must to develop collective intelligence in education.

Patrick Newell - Co-founder & Vision Navigator of the Tokyo International School. Vision Navigator' of Tokyo International School, Patrick spends much of his time facilitating change and enhancing learning environments. He focuses beyond the current ABCs of education through developing collaborative models in Technology, Board Governance, Accreditation, Design, Brain Based Learning and Solving Global Challenges. Patrick has been an educator and entrepreneur in Tokyo for the past 16 years. His achievements reach well beyond being the founder of Tokyo International School which currently educates almost 400 students from 45 countries.