Category: Other Projects

Community-engaged Learning in Teacher Education: A STEM Empowerment Community Project for Underprivileged Children

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Project Supervisor (2024-2025). This community-engaged learning project equips undergraduate students in the Faculty of Education (specializing in mathematics education) with knowledge and skills to implement an inclusive computational thinking (CT) education approach for youth in underprivileged communities. It will expand undergraduate students’ horizon and experience with fostering computational participation, while enhancing their own programming skills … Continue reading Community-engaged Learning in Teacher Education: A STEM Empowerment Community Project for Underprivileged Children

Empowering Youth from Underprivileged Community: Enhancing Programming Skills and Mathematical Knowledge for STEM Teaching and Learning

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賦能基層社區青少年：提升STEM教學中的編程能力和數學知識 Project Leader (2024-2026) (Co-Is: Dr. To Chan, Dr. Yun Dai). Funded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Knowledge Transfer Project and The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) ($399,467 HKD).  Problem identified: Hong Kong youth demonstrate low competence in digital literacy and cognitive aspects of problem solving, characterized by inadequate Computational Thinking (CT) … Continue reading Empowering Youth from Underprivileged Community: Enhancing Programming Skills and Mathematical Knowledge for STEM Teaching and Learning

Supporting Hong Kong ethnic minority learners’ multimodal mathematics learning through responsive teaching in technology-enhanced environments

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Principal Investigator (2022-2025). This study’s dual aims are: (1) to develop Hong Kong teachers’ expertise in supporting ethnic minority students’ mathematics learning in multimodal, technological learning environments, (2) to uncover ethnic minority students’ competences in mathematical activities in dynamic geometry environments through examining their multimodal discourse (e.g. words, gestures, and touchscreen dragging). Funded by the … Continue reading Supporting Hong Kong ethnic minority learners’ multimodal mathematics learning through responsive teaching in technology-enhanced environments