Symposium on Computational Thinking and Coding Education for Future Teachers

Brief of the symposium

The symposium aims to bring educators and technology practitioners together, discuss the importance of computational thinking and coding as future skills, and challenge why all future teachers in Hong Kong should learning how to teach computational thinking and coding as the future problem-solving skills. Teachers in STEAM or languages are often invited in teaching these future skills. In this symposium, we call for all the students in education and non-education to join for a discussion, to learn how they can be well prepared to be a future teacher of future students.

Pre-service Teachers Training at HKU on Computational Thinking Education

Faculty of Education at HKU offers the Master of Education (STEM Education) with courses related to computational thinking and education to prepare both current and future teachers with competence in teaching this problem-solving skill to school students. In 2023, a new credit-bearing course entitled Foundations of Computational Thinking Education in School has been developed and is now being offered to all HKU students. The new course has also led to the revamp of the advanced course on computational thinking education at the postgraduate level in HKU to prepare students in future teaching practices and research.

Certificate of Attendance

Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance from the organizer to prove for the participation. For those who are in-service teachers joining the symposium can use this certificate for fulfilling their professional development (PD) activities.

Event Management

This event is supported and managed by Immersive Learning Lab Company Limited.

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