Hong Kong Fostering ICT Awards Scheme

Date:
1 APR 2021 – 30 MAR 2022  

Title:
Hong Kong Fostering ICT Awards Scheme  

Description:
● Hong Kong Fostering ICT Awards Scheme is organised by the Hong Kong New Emerging Technology Education Association (HKNETEA). It aims to encourage secondary schools to implement the IT Innovation Laboratory Project, which will arrange free school talks and online tutorials/workshops for all schools and students to enhance secondary school students’interest in IT and improve their computational thinking and innovation skills.
● It encourages secondary school students to choose technology-related education and careers by arranging sharing, mentoring and collaborative visits by professional experts.
● It also aims to enhance secondary schools’ interest in emerging ICT, such as experiencing technology topics like artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, big data and how to make use of government open data. The programme will enable students to learn and enhance their computing skills through workshops, webinars, school talks, assessments and competitions.

Please visit the website www.hknetea.org for details  

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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using App Inventor to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Refreshed)

Date:
24 JUN 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using App Inventor to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Refreshed)
 
Venue:
STEM Education Centre, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using coding education to develop students’ computational thinking in General Studies.
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through coding education.
 
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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Implementing Coding Education to Develop Upper Primary Students’ Computational Thinking (Mathematics) [Refreshed]

Date:
11 JUN 2021 – 2 JUL 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Implementing Coding Education to Develop Upper Primary Students’ Computational Thinking (Mathematics) [Refreshed]
 
Venue:
STEM Education Centre, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon / Online via Zoom
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using coding education to develop students’ computational thinking in Mathematics.
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through coding education.
 
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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using App Inventor to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Refreshed)

Date:
8 JUN 2021 – 29 JUN 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using App Inventor to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Refreshed)
 
Venue:
STEM Education Centre, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ understanding of programming with App Inventor
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using App Inventor to develop computational thinking among upper primary students
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through teaching coding
 
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STEM教育學與教和評估系列:計算思維及「不插電活動」工作坊 (修訂) – 網上課程

Date:
4 JUN 2021 – 13 JUL 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Computational Thinking and Unplugged Activities (Refreshed) – Online Course
 
Venue:
The course will be held online via Zoom
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ understanding of computational thinking and programming concept
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using unplugged activities to develop students’ computational thinking
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through teaching coding
 
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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Implementing Coding Education to Develop Upper Primary Students’ Computational Thinking (English Language Subject) [Refreshed]

Date:
3 JUN 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Implementing Coding Education to Develop Upper Primary Students’ Computational Thinking (English Language Subject) [Refreshed]
 
Venue:
STEM Education Centre, 1/F, Arts & Technology Education Centre, 145 Junction Road, Lok Fu, Kowloon
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using coding education to develop students’ computational thinking in English Language subject.
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through coding education.
 
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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using Visual Programming Language Tools to Develop Upper Primary School Students’ Computational Thinking in Computer Lessons (Refreshed) – online course

Date:
1 JUN 2021 – 17 JUN 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on Using Visual Programming Language Tools to Develop Upper Primary School Students’ Computational Thinking in Computer Lessons (Refreshed) – online course
 
Venue:
The course will be held online via Zoom
 
Description:
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using Scratch 3.0 to develop students’ computational thinking and coding skills in school-based Computer lessons.
● To facilitate participants to promote STEM education in school through teaching coding
 
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STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Using Scratch 3.0 to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Online Self-learning Course) (New)

Date:
20 MAY 2021 – 30 JUN 2021
 
Title:
STEM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Using Scratch 3.0 to Develop Computational Thinking among Upper Primary Students (Online Self-learning Course) (New)
 
Venue:
Online mode
 
Description:
● To develop participants’ understanding of Scratch programming
● To develop participants’ understanding of the basic programming structure and concepts
● To enhance participants’ pedagogical knowledge of using Scratch to develop computational thinking among upper primary students
 
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Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Series: (3) Workshop on Social Media, Smartphone and Adolescents ─ Strategies to handle Misinformation and Fake News (Re-run)

Date:
8 JUN 2021
 
Title:
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Series: (3) Workshop on Social Media, Smartphone and Adolescents ─ Strategies to handle Misinformation and Fake News (Re-run)
 
Venue:
Hong Kong News-Expo: 2 Bridges Street, Central, Hong Kong
 
Description:
Through participating in this workshop, teachers can understand:
• the impact of social media on adolescents
• how to search, evaluate and use information
• the harm of misinformation to oneself and others, and make decisions based on reliable sources like official information
• the skills of screen time management and healthy use of social media
 
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Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Series: (1) Seminar on Understanding MIL and Journalistic Profession (Re-run)

Date:
15 JUN 2021
 
Title:
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Series: (1) Seminar on Understanding MIL and Journalistic Profession (Re-run)
 
Venue:
Hong Kong News-Expo: 2 Bridges Street, Central, Hong Kong / Online mode via Zoom
 
Description:
● To promote the importance of media and information literacy
● To enable the participants to understand media and information literacy and journalistic profession
● To enable the participants to handle messages coming from different sources correctly and effectively
 
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