1. KBIP in Hong Kong:
KB without boundaries
KBTN Project Team
2. History
• HK KB Teacher Network established since 2006
• KBIP students & teacher collaborations has been
practiced ever since!
• Past topics for KBIP collaboration…
– Local ecology
– Water quality
– Problems of the earth
– Little inventors/professors
– Local Culture, Festivals
6. 2010-2011?
• Unfortunately not many HK schools had
participated in KBIP this year… due to many
many difficulties…
• However, new opportunities are just around
the corner!
Long before students work together on the KF, teachers from both sides of the class room works together to decide the topic , pedagogical design, schedule, etcIn fact the two pioneers who had started the very first KBIP were here in this venue today, Richard Messina & Patrick Lam.
HK classrooms decide on an agreed topic with their partner classroom in England, Barcelona, and Quebec. Partner classrooms work on a shared database on the Knowledge Forum, students read & build-on each others notes and then on the agreed presentation date HK students camped in one of our school in order to video conference with students around the world.
In the year 2008-09, a number of our KB classrooms have decided to work on the internationally agreed topic for KBIP – ecology, through out the academic year. Students of these classrooms first conducted research activities in HK to knowledge build on various aspects of ecology in HK. By August, when they participated in the Tomorrow’s Innovators session in the IKIT SI, they are ready to knowledge build with kids from Quebec to study quality of water in a park surrounded by residential buildings in Toronto.This KBIP also set another example where teachers who had less KB experience where lead by more experienced teacher partners to lead small groups of students together.
2009 was the 2nd year in which kids from HK join their KBIP partners in real person to kb on a topic of interest. With the great help of Dr. MireiaMontane, kids from HK and Catalonia had the opportunity to work together to conduct scientific studies on water samples collected in two beautiful lime-stone caves in Majorca, Spain. In fact, students in HK are so excited that they have started their related KB discussions on the KF one week before the trip to laid the background works. The students did their job so well that even the Geography professor invited by Mireia who specializes in limestone cave studies did found some of the questions raised by the students are even better than those raised by his university students!
