Category Archives: Mobile Learning

CFSS Grabbing Outstanding Smart City Project Award (Senior Section) and Commendable Smart City Project Award (Junior Section) in the Education Bureau Smart City Project Programme 2018/19

Academic, Awards, Media, Mobile Learning, Programming, Robotics

Two teams in our school took part in the Education Bureau Smart City Project Programme 2018/19, a competition which gives students an opportunity to create innovative products for the development of Smart City in Hong Kong. The senior team invented the product “AITrash”. It is an Arduino device that adopts Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to facilitate plastic recycling in the community. The mobile app is designed to record users’ recycling patterns and redeem points. The senior team won the…

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CFSS STUDENT GOT MERIT IN CODE2APP CHALLENGE

Academic, Awards, Gifted Education, Mobile Learning, Programming

Four junior students took part in “Code2App Challenge” Review Day and Ceremony organized by HKEdCity on 18/05/2019 (Saturday). The students have made a great effort in making a smartphone application for promoting the sense of waste reduction, which their product “Waste Calculator” got merit and stood out from more than 70 participating teams. Also, the students performed well in the STEM workshop and won the award of the most collaborative team on the same day. The participating students are: 2E 04 Cheung Chun Hei 2E…

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CFSS Grabbing Multiple Awards in Cisco Innovation Challenge 2019

Awards, Gifted Education, Mobile Learning, Programming, Robotics

On 4/5/2019 (Saturday), four junior students took part in “Cisco Innovation Challenge 2019” co-organized by The City University of Hong Kong, MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node and The Hong Kong Association for Computer Education. The students made great efforts in creating their Internet of Things (IoT) invention “Home Smart Toilet”, which paid off by winning the “Champion” out of 38 shortlisted teams and “Award for Outstanding Performance”. In addition, the ICT department was nominated for “Best Mentorship Award” of the year. The participating students are:…

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Mobile Learning – iClass

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iClass is an innovative teaching and learning system which can effectively deliver teaching materials and gather learning data.  This system is developed and maintained by the University of Hong Kong.  We have been using this system to faciliate students in doing learning tasks. It is one of the best tools that we have chosen to use for our school-based mobile learning project.

Blade Server Farm

Cloud Computing, Facility, Mobile Learning

We upgraded to blade server farm along with enterprise graded Storage Area Network (SAN) to support our education needs in using information technology to assist teaching and learning. This upgrade offers us a new era in green computing by virtualization technology. The unified server farm uses an intelligent controller to monitor and regulate the power consumption and heat. Virtualization technology is also employed to use less server hardware to operate network operating systems for providing various networked services. The system also enables us to go further to support our…

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Extensive Project on Wi-Fi Coverage

Facility, Mobile Learning

We have been working to extend the Wi-Fi coverage on campus since 2012. To lubricate the Mobile Learning and e-learning projects, we selected various venues to install enterprise standard Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) in order to allow forty simultaneous connections to receive high quality video streaming which is necessary for Mobile Learning. The latest model of Wi-Fi Access Points which supports 801.11ac specification has been installed in 10 classrooms for pilot e-book project since 2012.  

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Mobile Learning in CFSS

Academic, Cross-curricular, Facility, Gifted Education, Mobile Learning

Phase 4 (2012-present) We are implementing Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) project on campus. Students will be divided into several small groups and learn with their own mobile devices under supervision.   This promotes effectively the culture of self-directed learning. Besides, a list of reforms on Mobile Learning is underway.  We keep introducing new teaching and learning packages to teachers in order to delivery different kind of learning experience. We can see that the new teaching model can arouse students’ interests to learn and understand specific knowledge and…

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CFSS Students Share Cutting-edge Information Technology – Private Cloud Idea Exchange at Microsoft PiL Hong Kong Forum 2012

Academic, Cloud Computing, Facility, Gifted Education, Mobile Learning

本校學生分享尖端資訊科技 – Microsoft全球夥伴學習計劃2012香港論壇的私有化雲端系統 In March, we were cordially invited by Microsoft (HK) to present at their Partners in Learning (PiL) Hong Kong Forum 2012. CFSS students showcased the School’s Private Cloud Project, explained the structure and details of a private cloud system to the general public. 本年三月，本校學生獲得Microsoft (HK) 的邀請，於Microsoft全球夥伴學習計劃2012香港論壇介紹本校最新的私有雲端系統計劃。學生團隊負責向在場嘉賓分享建立雲端系統的心得和設立重點。

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