the Consultation on ITE4

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Appendix 1

Summary of the major feedbacks

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec Students Pri Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

In general Support

 Goals and objectives of ITE4 are supported.           

 The holistic approach of ITE4 is agreed with different aspects of education being coordinated.           

 Schools to adopt IT and e-learning at different paces are affirmed.           

Concerns / Suggestions

 EDB should consolidate and manage knowledge of the previous three ITE strategies, other

initiatives, etc.           

 Teachers should be provided with professional training on e-learning.           

Action 1: Enhancing schools’ IT infrastructure and re-engineering the operation mode (A) Providing a WiFi campus and adopting a diversified service model

Support

 Building up of schools’ WiFi infrastructure through the subscription mode is agreed for more professional technical support services in lessening the workload of teachers in charge of IT

/technical staff and ensuring hardware update and network security, etc.                   

Concerns / Suggestions

 There are concerns on the arrangement, timeframe and whether schools will have sufficient funding for the subscription fees and purchase of sufficient mobile computing devices (e.g. at least 2 classes with 1:1 student-device ratio), and resources of technical support and manpower during the set-up stage.

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources

School Sector

Parents IT Association Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members,

Political Parties, Pr

ofessional bodies, etc.

Sec Students Pri Students Principals Teachers

 Implementation guidelines and a technical support team are required, e.g. to facilitate schools in

managing the performance of the service providers.              

 Provision of Technical Support Staff (TSS) will be essential despite of adopting the subscription model. To lessen their turnover rate, TSS should be turned into a regular staff post with promotion

prospects.                

 Whether cloud computing would be reliable and secure.                    

(B) Using mobile devices Support

 Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) should be adopted by schools to facilitate student learning in school

and at home.                

Concerns / Suggestions 

 Some success factors for implementing BYOD are suggested, including teachers’ readiness, parents’

acceptance and provision of financial assistance to needy students to acquire the mobile computing

devices, etc.                    

Action 2: Enhancing the quality of e-learning resources (A)   Developing an e-textbook market

Support

 The e-Textbook Market Development Scheme (EMADS) is useful in developing local e-textbooks

and relieving teachers’ workload.                  

Concerns / Suggestions

 Whether there will be sufficient quality e-textbooks ready for use in different Key Learning Area

(KLA) and Key Stage (KS) so as to reduce teachers’ workload.                  

 Prices of e-textbooks should be reasonable and they can be developed on a modular basis to cater for

school-based curriculum.                  

 Whether students can retain the ownership of e-textbooks used even if they have changed schools or

passed them to their siblings.                  

 

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

(B) Leveraging global e-learning resources Support

 Development of quality e-learning resources with a variety of choices from local and overseas

developers is supported.                  

 It will be good for the Hong Kong Education City Limited (HKECL) to provide good quality and

user friendly e-learning resources as this can lessen teachers’ workload and reduce school cost.                  

 The education portal provided by the HKECL is essential as it will help consolidate and coordinate large amount of e-contents as well as to serve as the mass coordinator and licensor of these

resources. All these are essential to the success of ITE4.                 

Concerns / Suggestions

 Service enhancement of the HKECL should include:

i. Setting up a development and accountability mechanism, including with realistic objectives, implementation timeline, performance indicators and collecting feedback for evaluation;

ii. Hosting a common platform for local and world-wide e-learning resources, e.g., Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) with contents including local teaching videos and sharing resources among teachers and serving as an online bookstore to address learner diversity, e.g.

the gifted and students with special education needs (SEN); and iii. Leading on defining standards of the e-learning ecosystem.

              

 Whether the e-commercial vendors and the IT industry can participate in the production of digital

resources to safeguard potential security, compatibility and software management issues, etc.                

 Whether stakeholders including non-government organizations (NGOs), school sponsoring body,

etc. can participate in developing e-learning resources.              

(C) Enriching the free resources on EDB One-Stop Portal and sharing of resources by teachers  Support

 The learning and teaching resources available on the EDB One-Stop Portal are useful.                  

 EDB to encourage schools to adopt Creative Commons in publishing their works is supported.                   Concerns / Suggestions

 The resources on the EDB One-Stop Portal should be open for public access.                  

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

 e-learning resources can be developed with other parties across platforms.                 

 Whether e-learning resources can be updated regularly and teachers invited to give advice.                   

 EDB can adopt a more diversified approach for building the One-Stop Portal instead of relying on a particular pedagogy (e.g. Flipped Classroom & EAST model). More agile partners from the IT industry and tertiary institutes may be involved.

                  

 Teachers should be supported to solve copyright questions, e.g. by exploring free ShareAlike

licenses / platforms such as the Creative Commons/ Apache License, etc.                   

 EDB should encourage schools/teachers to share their innovative teaching resources and

experiences.                   

 HKECL may negotiate with publishers / content providers for sharing of resources through

depository-like model.                   

 The HKECL website can facilitate teachers with more user friendly information search engines to

support learning and teaching.       ^{              }

(D) Enabling Single Sign-on and integrating e-learning platforms  Support

 The majority of the respondents strongly support the setting up of an online integration services platform by the HKECL to provide students with Single Sign-on (SSO) services to facilitate exchange of learning data on LMSs.

                

Concerns / Suggestions

 The SSO is good but may be difficult to implement.               

 HKECL should ensure the interoperability between platforms, e.g. by making use of the Web-based School Administration and Management System (WebSAMS) for the security of students’ personal information.

                  

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

Action 3: Renewing curriculum, transforming pedagogical and assessment practices (A)    Articulating clear learning objectives

Support

 The proposals are generally supported.                  

Concerns / Suggestions

 The Government should strengthen the development and awareness of IT literacy as well as

network safety in the school curriculum.             

(B)   Enhancing problem-solving and programming-related skills  Support

 The inclusion of programming in the computer curricula is supported.                

 Programming should be a mandatory element in the junior secondary computer curriculum to

nurture students’ logical reasoning abilities and IT skills.                

Concerns / Suggestions

 The computer curricula should be reviewed and updated.              

 Programming should be a must in the school curriculum to nurture students’ logical reasoning abilities and IT skills. EDB should provide teachers with the relevant teaching guidelines,

including working in partnership with the tertiary institutions for the teaching contents.             

 The class size in teaching programming should be reviewed.                  

 

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

(C)    Applying IT skills across school curricula Support

 The proposals are generally supported.         

Concerns / Suggestions

 E-learning is essential but the implementation details e.g. timeline and pedagogical approaches

should be provided.       

 Some teachers have stated that learning outside classroom will be the next step for IT in education

development.                  

 Students’ information literacy should be enhanced.                  

 To provide clearer and more concrete descriptions of the ways in promoting the use of e-learning pedagogy across subjects/KLAs, application of IT skills across school curricula, and the use of e-assessment.

                 

(D)  Promoting e-learning repertoire  Support

 The proposals are generally agreed.                    

Concerns / Suggestions

 Teachers’ professional capacity should be enhanced for e-learning by providing them with more

school visits for sharing on e-learning.                 

     

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

(E) Using e-assessment for student learning  Support

 E-assessment to facilitate student learning is agreed.        

Concerns / Suggestions

 The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) should eventually consider

the development of online test as an alternative to written ones.                    

 EDB and HKEAA should study the reliability and integration of e-assessment system.                    

 To provide teachers with more exemplars of using IT as an assessment tool by subjects.                   

 Students’ assessment and learning data should be shared.                     

(F) Engaging students in IT-related life-wide learning Support

 The proposals are generally supported.                  

Concerns / Suggestions

 The Government should strengthen the professional exchanges and partnerships with the tertiary

institutes/ Vocational Training Council.                  

 Students should be encouraged to participate in a wide range of local and international

competitions.                  

(G) Exploring IT-related career paths  Support

 The proposals are generally supported.                  

 

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

Concerns / Suggestions

 Technology education should be enhanced.               

 More incentive measures should be put in place to nurture and attract students / graduates to join

the IT industries.                  

Action 4: Building professional leadership, capacity and communities of practice (A)  Empowering e-leadership

Support

 School leadership to lead the change and enable whole school e-learning is commonly agreed.                Concerns / Suggestions

 The vice-principal / PSM(CD) should be designated to take care of the formulation and implementation of e-learning in schools. Their roles have to be clearly spelt out and provision of relevant training will be essential to facilitate integration of IT across the school curriculum.

              

 The workload of teachers is heavy that they cannot spare time to attend training programmes.               

 A primary school post of PSM(IT) could be established to coordinate the work of all IT-related

matters for development of e-learning.                  

 School leaders should attend professional development programmes, both local and international,

for capacity enhancement to manage the implementation of e-learning.                  

 EDB may report on the effectiveness of e-learning research findings and disseminate good

practices, both local and world-wide, through seminar/website for teachers’ reference.                      

 EDB could review and incorporate e-learning elements in aspiring principal's training and

professional development courses.                      

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

(B)  Providing a web-based self-learning tool kit Support

 The proposal to develop more resource materials for school’s reference is affirmed.                Concerns / Suggestions

 EDB may provide schools with a checklist in assessing its readiness and program management in hardware, software, teachers, students and parents, so as to facilitate the formulation of

school-based policy and implementation strategies.

              

(C) Enhancing professional development of teachers Support

 Teachers to be provided with professional training on e-learning is well received.                Concerns / Suggestions

 Teachers should be motivated to take part in e-learning and relevant training.               

 Teachers are heavily engaged and may not have the time to attend training.                  

 EDB should take the lead in developing teachers’ professionalism in e-learning according to their

subject areas.                  

 Professional development programmes should be provided to middle managers on BYOD and

infrastructure subscription service management etc.               

 To provide teachers with training programme on e-learning pedagogies, information literacy and

IT security issues, etc. for them to continue their professional development.                    

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

(D) Rendering support services & building communities of practice Support

 To provide teachers with IT training and schools with on-site support for e-learning is highly

supported.                  

Concerns / Suggestions

 To encourage teachers to have more sharing of resources and practices on e-learning both at

school level and at subject level to help solve their teaching problems.               

 School-based support on e-learning activities can be provided that schools could make use of

staff development day to arrange talks and workshops for all teachers to attend.               

 The quota for joining the pilot projects / support scheme should be increased to allow wider

dissemination, in particular, to include those “weak schools”.                  

Action 5: Involving parents, stakeholders and community

(A) Communicating with parents and working with stakeholders and the community Support

 It is agreed that parents should be involved to encourage e-learning at home and their literacy in e-learning, including updates of latest technologies, understanding of Internet addiction, cyberbullying, cybercrime and relevant health issues, etc.

              

 Parents to support BYOD are widely agreed.               

 Synergizing efforts of the community are supported. The IT industry, social workers, parent associations, educational bodies and schools can help the working parents through promotion videos and seminars, and nurture the young IT-talents.

              

   

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Summary of Feedbacks

Sources School Sector

Tertiary Sector IT Industry General Public Media Others e.g. LegCo Members, Political Parties, Professional bodies, etc.

Sec. Students Pri. Students Principals Teachers Parents IT Association

Concerns / Suggestions

 There are concerns of digital divide that needy students and families should be financially

supported, in particular, for implementing BYOD.               

 Health issues, e.g. influence of radiation and related eye diseases, should be aware.               

 Schools should be supported to provide parents with assistance through parent-teacher

associations e.g. on using mobile learning devices and setting up house rules at home.                Others 

Concerns / Suggestions

 Whether there would be expected outcomes for schools’ reference.           

 It will be essential to conduct research and development studies for reviewing the progress of

ITE4.           

 

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Strongly  Disagree

1%

Disagree 7%

No Opinion 13%

Agree 72%

Strongly  Agree

7%

Strongly  Disagree

1%

Disagree 8%

No Opinion 17%

Agree 68%

Strongly  Agree

6%

Appendix 2

Summary of the School Survey Results on ITE4 (2014)

Background

To solicit views from the school sector on the goal and proposed actions of ITE4, EDB conducted a questionnaire survey in the briefing sessions held for the school sector in May 2014. A total of 344 returns was received.

Survey results

Questions on whether: Responses

1. The goal of ITE4 is appropriate

2. The holistic approach of ITE4, which includes coordinated ITE and curriculum development and involvement of different stakeholders, is professional

     

 

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3. e-Learning / Harnessing IT in learning is important

4. Proposed actions of ITE4   are essential

(i) Enhancing school’s IT infrastructure and re-engineering the operation mode

(ii) Enhancing the quality of e-learning resources

在文檔中 Summary of the major feedbacks collected during (頁 72-86)