The project aims at developing an e-learning platform involving an integration of three elements, namely a re-designed school-based junior secondary Integrated Humanities (IH) curriculum, the use of mobile devices, and the school's existing interactive learning platform called iLAP.
The project aims at enquiring into enhancing the Chinese culture learning and the reading ability in Chinese language among the 160 S1 students of 2 collaborating schools through close reading of complex texts (細讀複雜的文本). Relevant teaching materials including assessment tools and criteria will be produced as the tangible deliverables.
The project aims at enhancing the English learning motivation of junior secondary students of three secondary schools through enhancing about 60 English teachers' competence in using IT tools to enhance learning and teaching effectiveness, promoting collaboration between English teachers and developing ideas of best practices with the use of tablets to support English learning. An ebook including lesson plans, video clips of a class in action and reflections from teachers and ideas of best practice will be produced in the project.
The project aims at empowering 32 primary teachers to use the principles of brain-based learning in the classroom to help students learn in different subjects through hiring a service provider to organise training workshops and to conduct class observation and post lesson evaluation for teachers. The deliverables of the project will be the brain-based learning and teaching materials.