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

Date:
AA: 2024/11/28至2024/12/12
AB: 2025/3/19至2025/4/2

Title:

STEAM Education Learning, Teaching and Assessment Series: Workshop on the Development of Artificial Intelligence Learning Activities through the “Enriched Module on Coding Education for Upper Primary Level” (Web-based learning course) [NEW]

Venue:
The course is an web-based learning course (28 Nov – 12 Dec 2024) via HKEdCity Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform. 

Description:

  1. Course materials are adapted from the “Enriched Module on Coding Education for Upper Primary Level” relevant learning and teaching materials.
  2. This course is conducted through an web-based learning course on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) of Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity).
  3. Participants are required to complete the web-based learning course between 28 November to 12 December 2024 (AA) or 19 March to 2 April 2025 (AB).
  4. Participants are required to follow the instructions of the web-based learning course to complete the course, including watching the video clips and completing an online assessment (multiple choice questions). Participants should score at least 60% of the assessments on three maximum attempts to meet the course requirement.

Event Details

CoolThink@JC – “CoP on CT Implementation and Catering for Learner Diversity”and “CoP on Integrating CT into Subject Learning” Activities (Coding Education)

Date:

From November 2024 to March 2025

Introduction:

The Education Bureau is actively promoting STEAM in primary and secondary schools, and has announced the “Enriched Module on Coding Education for Upper Primary Level”, to help schools implement coding education more systematically. The curriculum units are adopted and adapted from CoolThink@JC programme. The Education University of Hong Kong, through the CoolThink@JC programme, will provide free teacher workshops related to coding education. The Artificial Intelligence and Digital Competence Education Centre (AIDCEC) at The Education University of Hong Kong has established two communities of Practice (CoPs) for teacher professional development, named “CoP on CT Implementation and Catering for Learner Diversity” and “CoP on Integrating CT into Subject Learning”. These communities aimed at providing teachers with opportunities for mutual exchange and helping teachers gain a deeper understanding of computational thinking education, specifically: (1) how to implement it in schools, (2) how to cater for learning diversity, and (3) how to integrate computational thinking into subject learning. Seven schools, which have rich experience in implementing computational thinking education (CTE), co-lead these communities of practice:

  • Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) Primary School
  • Fukien Secondary School Affiliated School
  • King’s College Old Boys’ Association Primary School No. 2
  • Li Cheng Uk Government Primary School
  • PLK Women’s Welfare Club (WD) Fung Lee Pui Yiu Primary School
  • Tuen Mun Government Primary School
  • W F Joseph Lee Primary School

We sincerely invite primary school teachers to participate in the Communities of Practice and related activities.

Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Siu (corasiu@eduhk.hk) or Ms. Yip (ipwh@eduhk.hk).

Event Details