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The Education Bureau has published the latest “The Computational Thinking ─ Coding Education: Supplement to the Primary Curriculum”. It is recommended schools to adopt the document in the curriculum planning and implement coding education systemically to cultivate students’ computational thinking. “Computational thinking and coding is an approach to solving problems which can be used in different key stages and in a variety of disciplines. ” ”Schools can provide daily-life experiences at different key stages to expose students on learning the related concepts, so as to…
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Our Mission Inspiring Digital Creativity for Hong Kong Students CoolThink@JC strives to inspire students to apply digital creativity in their daily lives and nurture their proactive use of technologies for social good from a young age. The CoolThink@JC approach prepares students for a fast-changing digital future through a hands-on, minds-on, and joyful learning experience. An independent evaluation has found that students participated in CoolThink@JC grew twice as much in problem-solving skills when compared with non-participating students. Following the successful implementation of the four-year pilot, the second phase of the CoolThink@JC is launched…
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Our Framework We believe that primary school education should be key in laying the foundations for the computational thinking necessary to support participation in a computing-rich society. Computational thinking entails developing fluency with programming concepts (key constructs and ideas that are central to most forms of computing). But more fundamental than specific coding details, computational thinking includes the ability to pose problems and seek solutions that use key practices (the activities people engage in when creating computational projects) involved in computing and programming. And beyond solving problems with computers, young people should develop perspectives like digital empowerment,…
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CoolThink@JC curriculum certified by Education Alliance Finland (Jan 2022) Benchmarked to UK National Computing Curriculum, EAF evaluation reported that CoolThink@JC represents “high education quality and is proved to promote learning efficiently … a very comprehensive and progressive program for learning computational thinking and programming…
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Join Us Recruitment of CoolThink@JC Ambassadors 2018/19 CoolThink@JC is The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust’s pioneering computational thinking initiative for the upper primary students in Hong Kong. Developed in partnership with The Education University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and City University of Hong Kong, CoolThink@JC aims to make computational thinking fun and instinctive, and give students a valuable power for the digital future. Responsibilities Act as an ambassador to the Programme and provide co-teaching support in IT lessons and parent workshops in primary schools: Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to…
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