Event Code: EI0020100087 - AB
Two seminars on “Curriculum and Assessment Design for Promoting Students’ Information Literacy in Science at Primary Level” will be held to disseminate the curriculum and assessment resources developed in the above project and to share the experiences of primary science teachers in implementing the curriculum design and assessment tools developed. You are cordially invited to attend either of these two identical seminars. Details of the seminars are as follows:
Date: 3 July 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Speakers: Dr. Allan Yuen, Deputy Director of CITE and primary school teachers
Target audience: Anyone interested in curriculum and assessment design for promoting information literacy in Science, particularly School heads and science teachers from primary schools.
Date: 10 July 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30am – 1:00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre T3, Meng Wah Complex, the University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Dr. Allan Yuen, Deputy Director of CITE and primary school teachers
Target audience: Anyone interested in curriculum and assessment design for promoting information literacy in Science, particularly School heads and science teachers from primary schools.
Synopsis
UNESCO defines information literacy as “the capacity of people to recognize their information needs; locate and evaluate the quality of information, store and retrieve information, make effective and ethical use of information and apply information to create and communicate knowledge” (p.7). It is one of the essential 21st century skills that has been highlighted in recent curriculum reforms worldwide. The Education Bureau (EDB) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, like many other countries, has identified frameworks and standards for information literacy in the school curriculum. The Information Literacy (IL) framework for students was released in early2005 (*1) and the IL framework for teachers was announced in 2007 (*2) However, a study conducted in 2007 on Evaluating the Effectiveness of the HKSAR Government’s 2nd IT in Education Strategy -- Empowering Learning and Teaching with Information Technology (2004/2007) -- found that students’ information literacy skills particularly the higher level ones such as integrating, evaluating, creating and communicating were very low, and that there are significant differences across subject areas.
The findings suggest that the following need to be developed: (1) a clear IL framework depicting the levels of achievements expected for the different IL dimensions of each key stage, and (2) effective ways of promoting and assessing students’ information literacy in specific KLAs. In August 2009, the EDB appointed the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) of the University of Hong Kong to conduct the project “Development of Evaluation tools for Assessing Students’ Information Literacy and Promoting Information Literacy among students” in the subject areas of Science (in Secondary schools) and General studies (in Primary schools). Five primary and five secondary schools have participated in this project.
For more information about the objectives and rundown of the seminar, please kindly refer to the information posted by EDB in their Training Calendar at the following links:
English:
https://tcs.edb.gov.hk/tcs/admin/courses/previewCourse/forPortal.htm?courseId=EI0020100087&lang=en
Chinese:
https://tcs.edb.gov.hk/tcs/admin/courses/previewCourse/forPortal.htm?courseId=EI0020100087&lang=zh
Registration:
- Deadline of registration:
* for 3 July 2010 seminar - 23 June 2010
* for 10 July 2010 seminar – 29 June 2010
- For in-service teachers who are interested to attend the seminar, please register at the above-mentioned links of EDB TCS in order to obtain the CPD hours
- For CITE members who are not teachers and are interested to attend the seminar on 10 July 2010, please register at http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=341&category=cite
Thank you very much for your attention.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Nancy Law
Director, CITE
Remarks:
(*1) (http://www.edb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Content_1619/il_eng.pdf)
(*2) (http://www.edb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Content_4833/revamp2007_eng.pdf)