The Anglican Ho Ming Wah Bishop's Secondary School sets up the first secondary school AI Inno Lab in Hong Kong to promote AI applications

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Written by: Ma Weijie

2021-03-20 20:40

Last update date: 2021-03-20 20:40

Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Ho Ming Wah Bishop High School established the first secondary school Microsoft AI Inno Lab in Hong Kong to allow students to go further after they are exposed to STEM teaching applications. The school provides hardware and software support, as well as three-dimensional printers and laser cutting machines. Be exposed to the application of AI (artificial intelligence) in daily life.

Principal Jin Weiming, who is also the president of the Hong Kong Computer Education Association, pointed out that the positioning of today’s AI is just like that of computers 30 years ago. It is gradually beginning to be popularized and will even replace many existing jobs. The implementation of AI teaching will allow students to get in touch with the relevant earlier. Knowledge to respond to future needs.

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Provide high-tech equipment to meet learning needs

The newly completed AI Lab will be equipped with a lot of high-tech equipment in the school, including two laser cutting machines costing more than 100,000 yuan, two three-dimensional printers, etc., as well as a variety of teaching equipment, including the new Hololens 2. Smart glasses assist in teaching by means of MR (Mixed Reality), and there are only two lenses in Hong Kong that have recognition capabilities. Through learning to write programs, they can achieve recognition of objects and even human faces.

There are also Microsoft hardware and software in the Lab to meet the learning needs of students.

Adopt flexible design to meet learning needs

In addition, AI Lab adopts a flexible design. In addition to the basic classroom "sit in rows", it can also be adjusted to suit the classroom. The seven smart TVs surrounding the Lab can also be used for different purposes according to the course, even when grouping. You can use one for each group to ensure that the information is sufficient for all students in a class.

In order to allow students to be exposed to AI applications in their daily lives, AI Lab has applied AI technology to many life equipment. For example, curtains can be controlled by remote control and voice control. Students can also control the lights in Lab by programming. The principal explained that he hopes that AI is not only part of the curriculum, but also integrated into student life.

The newly completed AI Lab will be equipped with a variety of teaching equipment.

(Photo by Ma Weijie)

Participate in off-campus AI courses to bring knowledge back to campus

In terms of AI learning, the school took part in the AI-900 courses and exams organized by Microsoft, and learned the knowledge of AI before taking it back to the school. In addition to the teachers, the Anglican Ho Ming Wah Missionary School also had five students who passed the AI-900 test. The certification qualification of the school has made the school become Microsoft’s AI pilot school.

From cognition to practice, students make their own AI applications

The principal also pointed out that the school began to implement AI-related courses two or three years ago, when other schools were still in the initial stage of implementing STEM education.

In terms of curriculum arrangement, it starts from junior high school, from "cognition", "understanding", "application" and even "practice".

The junior high school ICT (Data and Communication Technology) course will teach students, and the third grade students will conceive and create AI-related applications on their own, such as using recognition technology to create an application that can identify beverages and ingredients; while in high school, In general courses, teach the moral issues related to AI, such as facial recognition and other more controversial technologies, and how to be an ethical user.

Although high school ICT students cannot continue to take AI-related courses due to DSE courses, those who are interested will still participate in a group in the school, and will participate in different AI-related competitions from time to time. Principal Kim refers to the school before the epidemic in January 2020. The team participated in the BETT exhibition held in the United Kingdom. More students in the school had outstanding achievements in AI applications, and were appreciated by Jinan University in China. They received their degrees without taking the DSE.

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