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Message from President
Coding Education Unit is the unit under the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology; it aims to nurture youth’s competence, character, confidence, connection and caring for a healthy and productive life through coding education.
With the advancements and wide adoption of digital technology in all walks of life in recent decades, there have been significant changes to jobs and daily activities. There is an urgent need for students to develop not only their skills to use digital tools in their daily work but also a fundamental understanding of the underlying principles of digital technology. Coding education for computational thinking development is vital for students to gain this understanding. Computational thinking competency is important for its integration with students’ specialized knowledge, which could enhance innovative ideas and outcomes. For this reason, computational thinking skill is regarded as an indispensable skill that should be possessed by everyone in the twenty-first century.
In view of the growing importance and prevailing trend of providing coding education for computational thinking development in the globe, the Coding Education Unit was established in July 2015 in the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology of the University, aiming to provide a learning environment for students to acquire the knowledge of coding as well as the computational thinking skill through Apps development, and eventually to disseminate the technology to the community.
As the advisor of the Unit, I wish the Unit every success in leading the development of computational thinking through coding education for the long-term benefit of our society.
Professor Stephen Y. L. Cheung
President
The Education University of Hong Kong
Introduction
Coding Education Unit is the unit under the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology; it aims to nurture youth’s competence, character, confidence, connection and caring for a healthy and productive life through coding education.
The Unit organizes courses and activities for students in EdUHK and local schools to learn coding skills, App development, design and production of artifacts with 3D printing. Through learning the programming language such as Java and Swift, it provides opportunities to enhance students’ skill building, personal recognition, community involvement, and positive connections with adults. Those are important elements to lead to positivity in youth development, which are the process of developing teenagers to be well prepared and productive for challenges in everyday life.
Introduction video about the Unit
Objectives
Provide caring people and a safe place for youth to develop competence and positive attitude through the sense of achievement in acquiring coding skills for Apps development.
Organize activities to provide youth with community service opportunities through connecting schools in Hong Kong to promote caring through coding skills and programming literacy programmes in local schools, students are able to build up confidence in these connections.
Deliver Apps developed in this unit to support student learning at pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
Courses/ Workshops offered by the Unit
More courses/ workshops are comming soon…