Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

This QTN aims at supporting participating schools to develop STEM education with artificial intelligence (AI), establish Design Thinking application tool kit for STEM education and foster the development of students’ growth mindset and creative thinking through design missions.

This QTN aims at establishing an inter-school professional network and enhancing teachers’ professional capacity for planning and implementing school-based STEM-related curriculum. Through hands-on and minds-on exploratory activities in General Studies, students’ capabilities to integrate and apply knowledge and skills will be developed. By reinforcing the design cycle, students’ creativity will be cultivated. The project also supports teachers to provide opportunities for students to apply coding and enhance their computational thinking skills through establishing a school weather station to investigate the climate of four seasons.

This QTN aims at promoting computational thinking and STEM education through Mathematics learning activities and interdisciplinary activities in KS1. Teachers who participate in the QTN will apply the concept of computational thinking and improve their capability of using information technology in teaching. This fosters the development of a learning community among teachers and professional exchange across schools.

Quality Education Fund (QEF) organises diversified dissemination activities annually. Starting from 2006, QEF has been implementing QEF Thematic Networks (QTNs), aiming to connect different schools and education bodies, build up professional network, disseminate successful experiences and strengthen professional development as well as exchanges.   In 2020/21 school year, QEF sponsored 16 tertiary institutions, secondary schools and primary schools to implement QTNs, which covered different subjects and themes. The QTNs has provided support to the participating kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and enhanced professional exchanges as well as professional capacity building to facilitate continuous development of schools.   16 QTNs dissemination seminar would be organized in the form of live sessions and / or online live webinars from 2 June to 24 July 2021 in the venues and / or online platform arranged by QTN Co-ordinators.

.Deliverables{ padding-left: 250px !important; } This QTN aims at providing various technical trainings for teachers to assist them in developing school-based STEM-related teaching plans and using augmented reality (AR) courseware and virtual reality (VR) courseware. Participating schools can establish an interactive STEM education learning community to develop a sustainable STEM-related curriculum. The project also promotes professional exchange related to innovation and technology on Internet of Things (IoT). The concept of Smart City can be realised by enhancing students’ ability to apply STEM-related knowledge and to come up with feasible solutions to improve daily lives. Deliverables Please refer to Chinese version.