Facilitating Mobile Learning – Coding Education for Primary Schools

Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, The Education University of Hong Kong together with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and City University of Hong Kong will run this Coding Education for Primary Schools project for four academic years from 2016 to 2020.

Problem solving and digital literacy are widely acknowledged as two of the most valuable skills for the 21^st century. ‘Coding’ is the ability to write programme language providing instructions to computers, and is one of the most effective means of developing digital literacy, problem-solving skills, logical thought and computational thinking.

This project aims to design a curriculum that increases the computational thinking and coding skills of upper primary pupils with the intention that this curriculum will be adopted in the school curriculum. The project will recruit 32 local primary schools to introduce coding education to over 16,500 students for 2-3 years. School pupils and our student teachers will both benefit from this coding project.

One of the implementers of this project, the Coding Education Unit in the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology of the University has been set up to provide a learning environment for students to acquire the knowledge of coding and computational thinking skills through the development of Apps, with the aim of disseminating the technology to the community.