Encourage innovation and practice to create tomorrow’s university

Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial CollegePromote future education, integrate the concept of innovative technology into various subjects, and combine theory with practice. Under the leadership of @TERM1@@, the school has advanced and innovative equipment, and the curriculum content keeps pace with the times. In addition to hardware facilities such as "AI TV Station" and "BSC Studio", there are also innovative school-based courses such as "AI for the Future", "Co-creation and Co-Learning" and "Creative Media". Teachers teach appropriately and students learn appropriately, allowing the new generation to adapt to the future technology-driven world early.

Establish an "Innovative Education and School Development Department" to create an atmosphere of daring to innovate

Innovation education aims to train students' analytical and innovative thinking and learn to solve emerging problems in the real world. It also requires them to have proactive learning attitudes and strategies, be able to quickly process and organize complex information, and simultaneously think about decisions and solutions. Therefore, school teachers have become "knowledge designers", leading teaching outside the framework and using a lively and comprehensive method to allow students to advance in the ocean of knowledge and learn to understand and organize new information. The school has always paid attention to the professional development of teachers and encouraged the school team to continue their education. It has also set up a "good idea sharing" period to allow various subject groups and teaching departments to establish a communication platform to share successful teaching examples and encourage peer interaction.

Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda pointed out that in order to implement more comprehensive innovative education, the school established the "Innovative Education and School Development Department" for the first time this year, with a dedicated department to promote an innovative learning atmosphere in the school, while also allowing students and parents to understand the meaning and value of innovative learning. Value, "The department deliberately appoints teachers from different subject groups as key members, and the team works together to integrate emerging technologies into the curriculum of various subjects, and uses social issues to connect them, so that knowledge can be integrated and comprehensive. Students can break through stereotypes and internalize knowledge in interdisciplinary learning."

An innovative team creates creative students

Under the active promotion of Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda, school teachers are full of enthusiasm for teaching work, carefully design lesson plans, often organize special teaching activities for students, and add interesting and in-depth innovative lesson plans to the school-based curriculum. For example, in order to change the image of classical Chinese as being difficult and boring, we designed the tabletop game "Literature Fight" and integrated it into the designated classical Chinese chapter course for Chinese high schools. Through games and challenges, classical Chinese becomes vivid and makes teaching more interesting. In addition, each subject in the school also has a large number of unique lesson plans that incorporate innovative educational elements. Students can learn through emerging technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, VR and AR, to promote learning motivation. Many lesson plans are integrated into social issues and have achieved remarkable results and are highly praised by the education community. As a result, lesson plan design teachers are often invited to different organizations and universities as speakers to share their teaching experience, which shows the excellence of the teachers at the school.

The first AI TV station in the academic community. The course majors have repeatedly been recognized by the outside world.

Artificial intelligence is an important teaching tool in schools. It can provide teaching content that meets the needs of users and reflects students' learning progress and strengths and weaknesses. Take the AI ​​English recipe creation course as an example: students learn professional English words for dining tables and cooking in the English class, and then use English instructions to guide the AI ​​to synthesize photos of dishes, and then cook them in the home economics class. Teacher Sun Zhishan, director of the Innovation Learning Committee, said that in the process of artificial intelligence drawing, students can use AI to generate results, self-aware of their personal English writing ability, and reflect on whether their writing is in place and accurate. The better the students' English skills, the richer the words and sentences, the more beautiful the pictures generated by AI will be. AI has become an independent learning tool for self-study and self-evaluation. By communicating with AI, students can make extensive use of English and can immediately harvest learning results through generated results. They can get instant feedback and a sense of success. This has greatly changed the old model of composition classes where the teacher revised the text and the students revised it again.

It must be mentioned that the school has established the academic world’s first artificial intelligence TV channel "BSC CULTURE". In the "Hong Kong AI. Hong Kong Culture" program, students used generative AI technology to successfully create a virtual AI anchor who can broadcast news in multiple languages.

Promote interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration so that students can apply what they have learned and achieve success for others

In addition, the school has designed different innovative courses, such as using augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) to teach students mechanics and sports knowledge, or collaborating with the co-curricular activity group BSC Studio to take wedding photos for the elderly in the community.

"Education is not limited to the classroom. We have always connected with the outside world to provide students with opportunities to understand society. Through frequent interactions and experiences with the outside world, they can get inspiration, think about their future life paths, and understand the development trends of society." Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda said that the school is committed to cooperating with different organizations, such as the Hong Kong Fishermen's Youth Association, Tuen Mun District Council, etc., so that students can apply what they have learned to the community and disadvantaged groups. In the group, they use their strengths to help others and give full play to the Buddhist spirit of "self-interest and altruism". Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda even mentioned that an elder wrote a three-page letter with a brush to thank his classmates for returning to their old place with his wife who has cognitive impairment and taking photos of precious moments to reminisce about the past. All this convinced Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda that this is the best reward in learning.

In the future, the school will cooperate with the fishermen of Sham Wan Fish Steak in Sai Kung, and with the assistance of the other party, they will try to cultivate pearl clams on campus, so that students can understand the importance of ecological conservation and sustainable development, and at the same time understand the issues of Sham Wan culture. The successfully cultured pearls can also be used in cooperation with tertiary institutions as teaching materials for on-campus jewelry design courses, providing students with a more diversified career experience.