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Written by: Hu Jiaxin
2020-01-18 09:00
Last updated: 2020-01-18 09:00In recent years, the government has actively promoted STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Some startups have noticed a sharp increase in the demand for software support and teacher training in the academic community. They have spent nearly one million yuan to invest in a collaborative online learning platform to enable teachers. When teaching programming in the classroom, you can simultaneously review the learning progress of the entire class to enhance teaching interaction and feedback. The platform has been launched since April last year and has been adopted by 40 schools.
Yang Zhuoyu, the founder of "Science and Technology", a science park start-up, said that he noticed that the academic community has an urgent need for STEM teaching materials and teacher training, so he launched the UNA online collaborative learning platform to assist teachers in programming teaching. (Photo by Hu Jiaxin)
The government has promoted STEM education since 2015, and introduced a subsidy of over 200,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan for primary and secondary schools to enhance teaching resources. In 2017, a curriculum framework for programming education in primary schools was formulated to facilitate the introduction of curricula in primary schools. Yang Zhuoyu, the founder of the Science Park start-up company "Xin Si Chuang Ke" and a visiting assistant professor of computer science at the University of Hong Kong, said that three years ago, he noticed a sharp increase in the demand for teacher training and teaching support in the academic world. "Collaborative learning platform" allows teachers and students to write programs to drive the "micro: bit" microcomputer development board, and launched the platform for the academic community in April last year.
Students log on to the UNA Online Collaborative Learning Platform and learn to write programs. (Photo by Hu Jiaxin)
Simultaneously master the learning progress platform of the whole class to make programming teaching smoother
Yang Zhuoyu continued to point out that in the teaching of programming, each student will hold a tablet computer for class. Teachers can use the platform to synchronously review the programming learning progress of the entire class, immediately correct general learning mistakes of students, or praise creative answers. "Traditionally Teachers can only inspect the classrooms and learn lessons or draw lessons one by one, and they can go through the school at one time to make the teaching process smoother. "
Currently, STEM education permeates science, technology and math classes. Yang Zhuoyu said that some schools may not know how to respond, so companies will also provide STEM textbooks and curriculum frameworks. In addition to teaching programming, they will also learn to use programming knowledge by making intelligent devices such as automatic lighting systems and automatic scoring football machines. . He pointed out that in November last year, an artificial intelligence teaching junior high school course textbook was introduced to teach face detection and facial verification techniques and application codes.
Zhu Ziying (pictured right), the principal of Decui Primary School and Deshicui School of Han Normal University, believes that we should think about how to get teachers out of the teaching framework and cultivate students' spirit of inquiry and problem-solving. (Photo by Hu Jiaxin)
Primary school principal: Pushing STEM is the most difficult to get rid of old teaching thinking
According to Zhu Ziying, the principal of Decui Primary School and Hanshi Decui School, which uses the UNA learning platform, the school has sufficient teachers and teaching materials to teach students STEM knowledge. However, if professional technical support is available, teaching can be enriched. He believes that in promoting STEM teaching in Hong Kong, resources are not scarce. The most difficult is to get rid of teachers 'old teaching thinking. If they only follow the formula of textbooks, it will be difficult to cultivate students' spirit of inquiry and problem-solving. The department only builds the students 'products with the instructions, and builds the students' products with the students. "
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The learning process of students in Depu Primary School of Tai Po. (Photo by Hu Jiaxin)
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