Author: Kathy Fan

Date:

3-4 January 2025

Title:

The Global Chinese Academy for Science Education Research (GCASER) 2025 Conference

Venue:

The Education University of Hong Kong

This conference aims to

• provide science education practitioners with insights into national and international trends in science education, enhancing their understanding on innovative practices on STEAM education and cognitive science;
• enhance teachers’ competences in curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment through interactive sessions; and
• foster professional dialogue and collaboration through discussions, knowledge sharing, and networking among science education practitioners. 

Information of Keynote lectures and talks:

• Topic: The cultivation of innovative talents in science education
  Speaker: Prof. Weiping HU, President of the Global Chinese Academy for Science Education Research, Representative of the 10th and 11th National People’s Congress


• Topic: The theory and practice of STEM education
  Speaker: Prof. Winnie Wing Mui SO, an Executive Committee member of the World Education Research Association (WERA)


• Topic: Educational research on deep learning and scientific thinking
  Speaker: Prof. Lei BAO, Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences/ Department of Physics, The Ohio State University; Director of the Center for Chinese and American Education Research (CUEE) at Ohio State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the REAL Education Research and Assessment Journal

Details

http://gcaser2025.com

Enrollment through TCS

https://tcs.edb.gov.hk/tcs/admin/courses/previewCourse/forPortal.htm?courseId=CSD020240685&lang=en

Date:

17 Dec 2024

Title:

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Series: (1) Seminar on Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Learning and Teaching (New)

Venue:

Hong Kong News-Expo: 2 Bridges Street, Central, Hong Kong / Online mode via Zoom 

Description:

1. To enhance participants’ understanding of the ethical issues arising from the use of AI and other emerging information technologies
2. To equip participants to promote responsible use of AI in schools
3. To facilitate participants to integrate MIL into learning and teaching

Event Details

Date:

12 Dec 2024

Title:

STEAM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Webinar on the Application of Innovative Technologies in Theatre & Performance Arts Production and the Development Trends (New)

Venue:

Online mode via Zoom 

Description:

1. To enhance participants’ understanding about innovative technologies in theatre & performance arts production and its application in industries
2. To facilitate participants to promote STEAM education in schools

Event Details

Date:

27 Nov 2024

Title:

STEAM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Designing an Automatic Hand Sanitiser Dispenser (Re-run)

Venue:

Maker Space, Room 109, Arts & Technology Education Centre,145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon 

Description:

1. To facilitate participants to enhance students’ design and make skills through assembling an automatic hand sanitiser dispenser.
2. To facilitate participants to promote STEAM education in schools.

Event Details

Date:

21 Nov 2024

Title:

STEAM Education Enriching Knowledge Series: Processing Methods for Materials Commonly Used in Prototyping (New)

Venue:

Maker Space, Room 109, Arts & Technology Education Centre,145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon 

Description:

1. To enhance participants’ knowledge of processing methods for materials commonly used in prototyping.
2. To facilitate participants to promote STEAM education in schools.
   

Event Details

Date:

13 Nov 2024

Title:

Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Senior Secondary Design and Applied Technology: School-based Assessment Project (New)

Venue:

W424, West Block, EDB Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon  

Description:

1. To strengthen teachers’ understanding of the learning and teaching as well as assessment of the Design and Applied Technology Curriculum through the analysis and reflection on authentic School-based Assessment Projects.
   

Event Details

Date:

2 Nov 2024

Title:

Design and Technology Enriching Knowledge Series: Workshop on Unleashing Students’ Creativity through Design Thinking and Creative Problem-Solving (Re-run)

Venue:

Maker Space, Room 109, Arts & Technology Education Centre,145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon 

Description:

1. To enhance participants’ understanding of design thinking and creative problem-Solving
2. To facilitate participants to unleash students’ creativity through design project activities at school.
   

Event Details

Date:

24 December 2024

Talk Series on Emerging Technologies – Science, Opportunities and Challenges 2024: The Solar Energy Solutions Towards Carbon Neutrality in Hong Kong

Venue:

Online via Zoom

Description:

Hong Kong government has set an ambitious goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, and a critical strategy in its overall planning is to increase the deployment of renewable solar energy. In this talk, the speaker will discuss how we can rely on technological innovation to tackle this grand challenge; particularly, we have identified a new generation of printable, flexible, transparent, and colour-tunable solar cells as the most prominent photovoltaic technology to promote solar energy deployment in Hong Kong. Such a new generation solar cell technology can be integrated as tinted solar windows, façades, or curtains with buildings to generate significantly more solar electricity in an urban city, which usually has limited lands and rooftops for installing conventional silicon solar panels.

The speaker, Prof. YIP Hin-Lap, Angus is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong. He is the associate director of Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy. His research focuses on understanding the structure-property relationships, device physics and photophysics, device design and optimization of 1) organic solar cells, 2) perovskite solar cells and 3) perovskite light-emitting devices(LEDs).

Registration:

https://hkage.org.hk/b5/academy/Registration/selector.php?pid=198

Event Details

MetaACES 2025

Call for Teacher Forum Papers and Participation in the Conference

The 3rd International Conference on Metaverse and AI Companions in Education and Society – MetaACES 2025 is organised by EdUHK, co-organised by SUSTech,andsupported by Education Bureau, Association of I.T. Leaders in Education and The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education.

MetaACES 2025 will be held on 18 – 20 June 2025 (Wed-Fri). Day 1-2 of the conference will be held at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), while Day 3 will be held at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. The conference will comprise keynote speeches (keynote speakers include: Prof. Zhiting Zhu and Dr. Yung-Hui Li), panel discussion, Teacher Forum and paper presentations.

K-12 teachers teaching metaverse and AI companions are cordially invited to submit paper to the Teacher Forum and participate the conference programmes,whichwill be a valuable opportunity to share teaching experience and insights with educators from other regions. Please find below the details:

Conference Period	18 – 20 June 2025
Date of Teacher Forum	19 June 2025
Venue	18-19 June 2025 at EdUHK 20 June 2025 at SUSTech in Shenzhen
Paper Submission for Teacher Forum [Deadline: 3 March 2025]	Target: K-12 teachers teaching metaverse and AI companions Paper Language: English or Chinese Paper length including references: 2 pages Remarks: – All presented teacher papers in the Forum will be published in ISBN-coded proceedings. – More details about registration, paper format and submission procedure please visit: https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2025/forum.html
Conference Website	https://www.eduhk.hk/metaaces2025/
Paper Submission Page	https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=metaaces2025
Enquiry	metaaces2025@eduhk.hk

CTE-STEM 2025 Call for Teacher Forum Papers and Participation in the Conference

The 9th International Conference on Computational Thinking and STEM Education – CTE-STEM 2025 is organised by EdUHK, co-organised by SUSTech, and supported by CoolThink@JC, Education Bureau, Association of I.T. Leaders in Education and The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education.

CTE-STEM 2025 will be held on 18 – 20 June 2025 (Wed-Fri). Day 1-2 of the conference will be held at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), while Day 3 will be held at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. The conference will comprise keynote speeches (keynote speakers include: Prof. Cynthia Breazeal and Prof. Tanja Mitrovic), panel discussion, Teacher Forum and paper presentations.

K-12 CT and STEM teachers are cordially invited to submit paper to the Teacher Forum and participate the conference programmes,whichwill be a valuable opportunity to share teaching experience and insights with educators from other regions. Please find below the details:

Conference Period	18 – 20 June 2025
Date of Teacher Forum	18 June 2025
Venue	18-19 June 2025 at EdUHK 20 June 2025 at SUSTech in Shenzhen
Paper Submission for Teacher Forum [Deadline: 3 March 2025]	Target: K-12 CT and STEM teachers Paper Language: English or Chinese Paper length including references: 2 pages Remarks: – All presented teacher papers in the Forum will be published in ISBN-coded proceedings. – More details about registration, paper format and submission procedure please visit: https://www.eduhk.hk/ctestem2025/forum.html
Conference Website	https://www.eduhk.hk/ctestem2025/
Paper Submission Page	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctestem2025
Enquiry	ctestem2025@eduhk.hk