Abstract:
During school closures, teachers in less resourceful schools have struggled to cater to the diverse learning needs of academically at-risk students in their classes while maintaining the lesson quality in an online teaching setting. Without the physical presence of the teacher, these students, lacking the digital resources and digital literacy with educational technology, may not know how to stay engaged in the learning and teaching tasks and activities in online learning environments. EdUHK Bachelor of Education (BEd) students, as future teachers, who have been immersed in technologyenabled learning and teaching experiences, will be able to provide technical support to these schoolteachers to engage their students. By working with and supporting the in-service teachers, EdUHK BEd students have an opportunity to work in actual teaching contexts and have authentic and meaningful learning experiences in local schools. Meanwhile, EdUHK pre-service teachers could support in-service teachers to enhance the digital learning experience of their students through the portable future classroom this project offered. Therefore, this project aims to develop a professional learning community of BEd students, FEHD staff and in-service teachers and enhances student learning engagement and outcomes by providing EdUHK students with the opportunities to support teachers (technically and pedagogically) of academically at-risk students through the experiential learning with state-of-the-art educational technology.
Code:
T0243
Principal Project Supervisors:
Keywords provided by authors:
- Experiential learning through educational technology
- Academically at-risk school students
- Professional support for teachers
- Mentor-novice professional learning
Start Date:
01 Jan 2021
End Date:
30 Jun 2022
Status:
Completed
Result:
With the data collected from the two TPACK surveys, the in-service teacher team agrees that they are more competent in adopting digital learning materials in their class after participating in the project. The experience they gained through the project period prepared them to be a better educator in the online teaching setting. They also find that their students were more engaged in the lesson as the product provided by the project team has raised the learning incentive and motivation of their students. Both teachers and secondary school students benefited from the project. Lessons under the online mode can still be interactive and interesting, they agreed that if online teaching continues, the experience they gain from this project can support their teaching. The pre-service teacher group has acquired lots of actual field experience by assisting the teaching team to produce and design the digital learning materials. They now have more experience presenting content knowledge to the students with different software and applications. This project provides them with an opportunity to prepare themselves to fit in with the new teaching and learning norms that they are going to face in their future career.
Impact:
This project has enhanced EdUHK students’ capacity in designing quality technology-enabled learning and teaching resources through learning-by-doing. As pre-service teachers, this project provided them opportunities to collaborate with in-service teachers in developing learning materials with an authentic learning context, this is an experience that is different from their placement. Also, through various workshops, and individual consultations with co-supervisors, the pre-service teachers learned about innovative technology and the integration of AR and VR into the corresponding subjects in a secondary school curriculum. This experience enhances students’ competencies in adopting and adapting innovative learning and teaching strategies/tools of the portable future classroom toolbox in their subject areas. For the in-service teacher, they have received the support from the EdUHK students to provide a new form of materials that can be used in the class, they can have an opportunity to redesign their pedagogical practice and style in the new education setting and teaching practice.
Deliverables:
Seminars/Presentations/Sharing Sessions
Tang, Y. M. G. (2021, January 11, March 9, & April 21). Technology-enabled Teaching and Learning Innovation Trainings – Design and Development. [Online Workshop]. The Education University of Hong Kong. (13 pre-service teachers from EdUHK) (https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/publications/technology-enabled-teaching-and-learning-innovation-trainings-des)
Tang, Y. M. G. (2021, Feb 17). Technology-enabled Teaching and Learning Innovation Training. [Online Workshop]. The Education University of Hong Kong. (10 in-service teachers from HKRSS) (https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/publications/technology-enabled-teaching-and-learning-innovation-training)
Tang, H. H. H., & Tang, Y. M. G. (2020, November 17). Technology-enabled Teaching and Learning Innovation Training [Workshop]. Salesians of Don Bosco Ng Siu Mui Secondary School. (10 in-service teachers from NSM) (https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/publications/technology-enabled-teaching-and-learning-innovation-training-2)
Teaching and Learning Resources/ Materials (including online resources)
8 technology-enabled learning and teaching packages for a designated secondary school
Module 1 Congruent Triangles (Latest published date: Sep 2021)
Module 2 Cross Section (Latest published date: Sep 2021)
Module 3 Trigonometry (Latest published date: Sep 2021)
Sculpture (Latest published date: Dec 2021)
Pollution in Hong Kong (Latest published date: Feb 2022)
天淨沙·秋思 (Latest published date: Apr 2022)
Lichens (Latest published date: Apr 2022)
River course and management (Latest published date: May 2022) (https://repository.eduhk.hk/en/publications/8-technology-enabled-learning-and-teaching-packages-for-a-designa)
Financial Year:
2020-21
Type:
TDG