As a teacher, you know how important it is for your students to have strong reading comprehension skills. However, developing those skills can be a challenge, especially for struggling readers. Fortunately, Raz-Plus is a comprehensive reading program that offers a variety of resources to support reading comprehension. In this blog post, we’ll explore how you…
We are excited to announce the winners of the Learning A-Z Writing Competition 2023, organized in collaboration with mangoSTEEMS©. This year’s theme was “Superpowers of My Avatar,” and we were thrilled to see the imaginative and creative entries from students across Hong Kong. We received an impressive 4,500 submissions from over 65 schools in Hong…
在現今電子世代，如何讓學生在觀看媒體影片的同時進行有益學習，成為了老師和家長的一大關注。EnglishCentral正正透過不同類型的英語影片，讓學生在吸收資訊的同時，透過多說、多聽、多練習，增強英語的聆聽和說話能力。 今年mangoSTEEMS®繼續與香港教育城eREAP計劃合作，舉辦「EnglishCentral復活節挑戰計劃2023」，鼓勵學生善用EnglishCentral提供的優質英語影片，配合說話練習、詞彙測驗等，提升英語能力。 全賴學校與同學們的積極參與，為期2個月的「EnglishCentral復活節挑戰計劃2023」已圓滿結束。在此，恭喜以下得獎學生與學校（排名不分先後）： 傑出表現學生獎 Best Performance Awards for Students – 初中組別 – LEE WA FUNG 香港培正中學 CHAN HIN YING 仁濟醫院王華湘中學 CHEUNG YI YING 仁濟醫院王華湘中學 LI KA YAU 基督教宣道會宣基中學 LAU WING TUNG 基督教宣道會宣基中學 – 高中組別 – LIN JINGJIA 香港九龍塘基督教中華宣道會陳瑞芝紀念中學 LAU WAI HEI 仁濟醫院王華湘中學 LEE SUM YEE 仁濟醫院王華湘中學 CHENG CHUNG HANG 炮台山循道衛理中學 HUI CHING MAN 基督教宣道會宣基中學 最佳學習學生獎…
mangoSTEEMS® is pleased to invite teachers to join our Learning A-Z Teacher Workshop of “Connecting Resources for Seamless Instruction”. In this presentation, we will explore how teachers can use online resources to differentiate reading instruction, meet the diverse learning needs of all students, and motivate them through self-directed learning tools that align with coursebook instruction.…
近月來，人工智能聊天機器人程式ChatGPT成了全球熱話。大家都在關注，人工智能會帶來怎樣的改變與發展，在教育界的討論亦是相當豐富。隨著科技的進步，老師應如何應對越來越先進的人工智能？人工智能又能為教育帶來甚麼可能性？BSD Education創辦人之一的Nickey Khemchandani認為，人工智能工具將持續地促進學生的學習與發展！ 人工智能在教育中的爭議與可能 早在1月初，美國紐約市教育局已宣佈，由於無法確保ChatGPT提供答案的準確與安全性，將限制在紐約市公立學校的網絡和設備上使用 ChatGPT 。在香港，教育局亦在3 月底向立法會表示，部分本地大學已對學生使用ChatGPT提供指引，同時多間大學正舉辦多場關於運用生成式人工智能議題的研討會、講座、專題討論及互動工作坊等活動，以加深教學人員及學生對相關爭議的理解及認知。 雖然各界對於ChatGPT提供的答案內容都有所考慮和關注，但無可否認，它實在是十分便利。人工智能可以在短時間內提供答案，用家甚至能夠節省「搜尋」的過程。根據Nickey Khemchandani的個人經驗，他在持續使用一個月ChatGPT後，發現此人工智能工具顯著地提高了他的工作效率。他認為，ChatGPT不只有助營銷和業務開發的工作，亦十分適合用於學習和研究，而他相信人工智能可以做到的還有很多。 對於有批評認為，人工智能無法建立學生的批判性思維和解難能力，Nickey Khemchanda則指出，其實在傳統的教學模式，學生鍛鍊批判性思維的過程，亦是先學習規範式的答案，再學習表達自己的見解。他亦引用美國商業雜誌《富比士》（Forbes）的一篇文章，指出現時的作文考試正走向標準化。基於評分標準，學生其實是在遵守作文的演算法，而非從想法開始去思考去開展一篇好的文章。 期待人工智能的創新與發展！ Nickey Khemchandani認為，其實這些創新科技已改變了我們的工作、學習方式和能力。如果單純因為恐懼而限制科技，未免有點糊塗。他見證著人工智能在教育領域的潛力，因此他認為人工智能可以為學生帶來更個人化的體驗，亦能協助簡化老師的工作。隨著最新發佈的GPT-4版本面世，相信學生將有更多機會使用像 ChatGPT 這樣的工具來促進他們的學習和發展！ （查看Nickey Khemchandani所撰文章原文請按此。） 關於BSD Education BSD Education (Build Something Different) 一個以程式編寫創作為導向的網上學習平台，提供多元化編程主題學習，包括網頁製作、程式編寫、遊戲設計、數據處理等，並教授HTML、CSS及JavaScript編寫。他們與教育工作者合作，通過不同的學習計劃、在線學習平台和專業發展培訓，將科技教育帶入課室之中。學生更能利用BSD平台設計與編寫個人化電腦程式，對學生升學或未來在資訊科技深造更有裨益。
Kids A-Z planet sent all avatars a mission invitation. Can you make your avatar to accept it? What superpowers does your avatar have? How can your avatar help the world? Write on the “How can my avatar help the world?” topics and submit with your Kids A-Z avatar picture. Lower Primary (Grade 1-3), the word…
Guiding Students to Become Successful Readers When engaging in reading instruction, many teachers tend to seek out printable kids books to provide small group and independent reading practice, but is that enough? We would like to take some time to explore the advantages of digital books in comparison to printable books and provide you with…
EnglishCentral is a leading English learning platform that consists of 12,000videos covering a wide range of student interests. We support… 12,000+ of authentic videos to Watch & Speak Instant personalized pronunciation feedback Teacher set goals and track student progress Flexible learning and teaching (Mobile Access) Comprehension Quizzes and Assessment tools Student choose videos according to…
Over 24 Accents are Available in the EnglishCentral Video Library English is the world’s most widely spoken language with approximately 1.5 billion speakers globally. However, there is a wide range of different accents and dialects represented in that figure — over 160 distinct accents and dialects by our estimates. As our goal at EnglishCentral is…
The Learning A-Z Donation Challenge in collaboration with UNICEF USA is back! This challenge gives students the opportunity to embody the social-emotional learning concepts they are learning in the classroom by making a real-life impact by giving back and strengthening their literacy skills along the way. Donation Period: October 24, 2022 – Nov 18,…