News: The Education Bureau will visit schools in the short term to understand the effectiveness of e-learning

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Written by Deng Yinglin

2020-05-12 07:00

The New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic has shown signs of easing recently. The Education Bureau has also announced that classes will be resumed in stages. During the suspension period, many schools have switched to electronic or online teaching to ensure that students do not stop. different. It is understood that the Education Bureau is gradually going to different schools to understand the situation of e-learning.

The subsidized Secondary School Council Executive Committee and the principal of Lions Middle School Lin Rifeng believes that the e-learning experience and software and hardware support of each school are different, and the teaching situation of each school between suspensions may be greater than usual. Make statistics on school conditions and data to assess how to "recover lost land" and prepare for the sudden suspension of classes in the future.

Lin Rifeng: There are differences in e-teaching experience among schools

Together with the Lunar New Year holidays, all schools in Hong Kong have no classes for more than 100 days, which is longer than the average summer vacation. Since the suspension of classes, the vast majority of schools have maintained their teaching through online learning. However, the subsidized Secondary School Council Executive Committee and the principal of Lions Middle School Lin Rifeng believes that there are differences in e-teaching experience among schools. Teachers shoot editing skills and e-learning experience for teachers and students. Even the level of school IT support varies, and the teaching progress will inevitably fall behind in previous years: "Even if teachers and IT staff have sufficient knowledge, the school network will be difficult to support each class in accordance with the original schedule in real time."

He also said that the quantity and quality of electronic equipment students have, whether they have e-learning experience and home conditions will also affect learning effectiveness. Lin Rifeng pointed out that the size of home space, the speed of network transmission, the number of people sharing equipment, and the quality of electronic equipment all affect the effectiveness of students' e-learning at home. It is not easy for students to solve problems in a short time.

Teacher Zhang bluntly said: "The screen of the mobile phone is too fine, you have to dial up and down to fill in the questions, look at the questions on the left, and fill in the answers on the right; the longer questions are more difficult to handle; in real-time classes, the teacher should write very large, otherwise use the mobile phone Students ca n’t see it. ”(Photo by Huang Shuhui)

The e-learning system is not designed for mobile phone users to easily reduce students ’desire to learn

Teacher Zhang, who teaches at the Kowloon Polytechnic School, said that students are generally passive during e-learning. Grassroots and introverted classmates rarely take the initiative to ask for help, relying more on parents to inform them, or when teachers call to find out what difficulties they are facing. She pointed out, for example, that students who owed homework were unfamiliar with computer operation and did not understand the use of the system. Eventually she spent about half an hour teaching with "sound navigation"; other students' mobile phones failed to log in to the system and eventually found that the system only supports the specified version Browser. Since most e-learning systems are designed with computers and lithography computers, it is not conducive to mobile phone users, and the operation is complicated. It is easy to reduce the learning intention of students: "The screen of the mobile phone is too fine. You must dial the filling questions. Look at the questions on the left and the right. Fill in the answer; long questions are more difficult to handle; the teacher should write so much in real-time classes, otherwise students using mobile phones will not see them. "

News: The Education Bureau will visit schools in the short term to understand the effectiveness of e-learning

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The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui He Minghua supervised the principal of the secondary school and chairman of the Hong Kong Computer Education Society Jin Weiming. (Photo by Huang Shuhui)

Jin Weiming: The progress of a class without e-learning experience is significantly behind

the Hong Kong Anglican Church, the chairman of the Hong Kong Computer Education Society, the president of the Hong Kong Anglican Council, He Weihua, Jin Weiming, said that nearly half of the students in the school used mobile phones for real-time classrooms, and in the past participated in BYOD Classes have certain e-learning experience, teaching during the suspension period is significantly smoother, and students ’learning progress is also better:" Uselessly opened (e-learning) classes, the progress is significantly slower ", and the Education Bureau first arranges high school students to work on a half-day basis The resumption of class balances the needs of teaching and anti-epidemic. "Returning for half a day and not returning at all are two different things. You can learn about the situation and collect your homework when you meet."

Teacher Zhang, who teaches geography at Kowloon Polytechnic School, pointed out that in the past, geography did not require e-learning. During the suspension of classes, she had to learn to shoot videos by herself. With the support of her colleagues, she gradually got used to it, but she also encountered many problems in actual teaching. For example, she pointed out that map reading is a compulsory part of the subject, but it is difficult to evaluate the learning effectiveness of students in videos and real-time teaching: "Usually the classroom is finished, you can ask the students to try it. They are afraid of ugliness and want to call them It ’s difficult to raise your hand. Anyone who does n’t understand when you are on the tour, how to teach directly, how to teach now? The shadows may not be taught clearly. "

The subsidized secondary school council executive committee and principal of the Lions Middle School, Lin Rifeng, suggested that the Education Bureau take the opportunity of the suspension of the outbreak to collect information and data from various schools for statistics. One can study how to recover the lost land, and the other can be used for similar in the future. Refer to the situation. (Photo by Huang Shuhui)

Lin Rifeng: Education Bureau should collect the results of all electronic schools in Hong Kong for research

Lin Rifeng bluntly stated that the outbreak is longer than SARS and more contagious. There are differences in student learning, and the overall teaching progress will lag behind. Teachers in the humanities may still mobilize courses to continue teaching with e-learning. Teachers in science, chemistry and other subjects of the experiment face more difficulties: "STEM teaching will be difficult, science experiments will not be available, and you will have to catch up after the resumption of the class. Compensation for the summer vacation can be said to be indisputable. High school SBA needs Experiment, the teacher is likely to mobilize the summer vacation for experimental teaching. "

He suggested that the Education Bureau take the opportunity of the suspension of the epidemic situation to collect data and statistics from various schools for statistics. One can study how to recover the lost land, and the other can be used as a reference for similar situations in the future. He also believes that the Education Bureau should give schools the discretion to simplify the procedures for purchasing electronic equipment at special times such as epidemics, and to provide funds for schools to purchase computers for loan to students in need.

The Education Bureau recently met with the education sector to discuss e-learning

Zhu Weilin, vice chairman of the New Territories Principals Association and principal of Fengxi No. 1 Primary School, revealed that when the Education Bureau recently met with the principals of primary and secondary schools, it mentioned that it would like to understand the status and progress of e-learning during the suspension, what difficulties, challenges, and how to solve them. I will go to individual schools to inspect the situation, and then integrate the online learning experience for future reference.

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