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Written by: Wang Yuechen
2020-09-11 07:00
Last update date: 2020-09-11 07:00
The COVID-19 pandemic is raging. Schools, education centers, and cram schools need to suspend classes to avoid the epidemic. Different educational institutions are embarking on transformation to make good use of e-learning technology and online learning platforms to allow students to "suspend classes without stopping."
Although studying at home has become the new normal, not all educational institutions have comprehensive online teaching facilities. The rapid changes brought about by the epidemic have caused them to face many challenges.
The two educational technology start-ups GRWTH and iSTEM in Cyberport have provided relevant teaching support during the epidemic, helping educational institutions to transition smoothly, and at the same time creating an interactive and interesting online learning experience for students to increase their interest in learning.
GRWTH
education integrated platform provides diversified teaching support to
help small and medium-sized tuition agencies break through the transformation
Faced with the suspension of classes by the Education Bureau, cram schools and education centers in the market bear the brunt and become the most affected group.
In addition to handling part of the parents' request for refunds, it is also necessary to help students catch up with their studies and find a way out for business.
Some traditional tuition centers and education centers have been teaching in the form of face-to-face instruction, and have never been exposed to online interactive teaching facilities. The suspension of classes after the outbreak of the epidemic has brought the center's operations to a halt.
The Cyberport start-up GRWTH launched an integrated education platform at the right time to accelerate the digital transformation of tutorial schools and education centers through simple and easy-to-use functions, turning crises into opportunities in the shadow of the epidemic.
GRWTH provides free mobile data to students in need, and lends free tools such as iPad and MacBook to allow them to continue their studies at home during the suspension of classes.
Adam Chen, founder of GRWTH, said: "Seeing that the epidemic is coming to a halt in the education industry, we are actively providing more technology application tools to the industry to assist schools, faculty, students, parents and suppliers in the transformation to stay close to the general trend of social development. "As early as February this year, GRWTH has supported the education sector through a diversified plan, including free opening of the "Home-School Communication" tool for schools and extracurricular activity centers to use, and the promotion of online game learning platforms to increase students' learning interest.
For grassroots students, GRWTH provides free mobile data to students in need, and lends free tools such as iPads and MacBooks to help them bridge the "digital divide." After the launch of the plan, 450 primary and secondary schools will respond to use the GRWTH mobile app. The monthly usage will be as high as 800,000 to 900,000 people on average from February to July 2020.
In addition to schools, GRWTH understands that private educational institutions, including private tutors, small and medium-sized tutorial schools, or hobby activity centers, are very difficult to digitally transform in a short period of time. Therefore, they have connected cross-sector professionals and organizations to organize "Teaching Support Alliance" provides transformation support for educational institutions, including digital marketing, customer matching, online courses and technology and other comprehensive support programs to equip them with digital transformation thinking and marketing strategies.
GRWTH
online education platform
features
:
1. GRWTH Smart Student File System
mobile application provides various tools for schools, parents, students and training institutions to record students' learning progress and achievements in an all-round way.
2. New concept data analysis The
GRWTH platform provides growth suggestions based on users' personal interests, abilities and related potential. Parents and students can subscribe to information and purchase products or services on the platform.
iSTEM AI Lab Interactive
and the game of
learning mode
allows students to experience the joy of learning
In recent years, STEM teaching is popular, learning engineering and technology knowledge through scientific experiments and making robots. However, when the epidemic hits, there is a lack of interaction and tool assistance during face-to-face teaching. It is really difficult for students to equip scientific inquiry skills through courses alone.
The iSTEM AI Lab, a startup in the Cyberport community, has been committed to promoting STEM education, launching STEM learning games and videos, so that students can experience the fun of STEM even if they fight the epidemic at home, and can follow the instructions to "settle down" at home to conduct a series of DIY experiments. Enhance learning motivation.
iSTEM AI Lab's artificial intelligence, virtual reality and game-led STEM education courses make virtual education in primary and secondary schools more interesting and take students out of the rigid learning environment.
Chen Jizhi Eagle, the founder of iSTEM AI Lab, said: "To "stop classes without stopping", we must create interactive and interesting online learning experiences for students. iSTEM AI Lab is dominated by artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and games. The STEM education courses in the middle and elementary schools make virtual education in primary and secondary schools more interesting and take students out of the rigid learning environment.” iSTEM provides more than 50 free videos. Even if you sit at home, you can learn different STEM knowledge online, allowing students to find the experiment The joy of room learning.
The video encourages students to participate in hand-made experiments, such as assembling their own telescopes to learn the reflection of light, making electric fans to learn the principles of air and wind flow, and self-made catapults to learn mechanical physics, etc. Through a series of interesting DIY productions, students are guided to actively participate , Understand the background of various sciences; iSTEM also cooperates with Edmodo to provide advanced artificial intelligence introductory courses, and even provide AI teaching online training lectures to school teachers during school suspension.
On the other hand, in order to help teachers continuously assess the teaching progress of students during remote teaching, iSTEM uses 5G technology and real-time detection to obtain faster and more accurate data analysis of learning performance, which helps to establish a database so that teachers can have a deeper understanding of students Learning experience to predict their learning performance.
The "flipped classroom" learning model has enabled iSTEM AI Lab's online learning platform to record twice as much usage since the suspension of the epidemic compared to the same period last year.
Features of iSTEM AI Lab
platform
:
1. Sentiment analysis and big data analysis
iSTEM AI Lab deploys artificial intelligence, virtual reality and gamification through gesture detection of sentiment analysis and big data analysis to enhance the motivation of students to participate in learning and predict their learning outcomes.
2. 50 free STEM videos
In order to promote students' independent learning and create an interactive and interesting learning environment outside the school, iSTEM AI Lab 50 free STEM videos and a series of fun DIY experiments guide students to actively learn various STEM knowledge online.
The novel coronavirus epidemic has brought severe challenges to the world. Facing a completely different world and life, the application of digital technology has become the key to adapting to the new normal and seizing new opportunities.
As early as February this year, some young entrepreneurs in the Cyberport realized that their innovative solutions can contribute to the fight against the epidemic, so they turned their enthusiasm into action and launched the "Dare to Fight against the Epidemic" campaign.
Start-ups and technology companies in the Cyberport community quickly gathered to meet the difficulties and provide the public with digital technology solutions to overcome the current difficulties.
So far, the Cyberport "Dare to Fight the Epidemic" action has recruited more than 60 applications in the community to provide anti-epidemic and response to the new normal for frontline medical staff, parents, schools and students who are still adapting to home study, and home quarantine Disadvantaged communities such as, grassroots families, and large and small enterprises in various industries that have been hit hard to meet current needs.
At the same time, Cyberport actively connects different start-ups and companies in the community through actions, and establishes collaborative cooperation to achieve greater anti-epidemic effects, inject positive energy into society with innovation and technology, and provide local and overseas companies or organizations with reference.
As society accelerates digital transformation and enters the new normal, the demand for digital technology is bound to increase. Cyberport and its start-up community will continue to stick to their posts and move forward with the united force of "dare to fight the epidemic". The strong resilience of digital technology has led the society to embrace innovation, cash in on opportunities, and promote the sustained growth of the new economy, with Hong Kong on the way to explore the new normal.
For details, please visit: https://istartup.hk/braving-the-epidemic/tc
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