Open e-Learning Lesson at The Lok Sin Tong Leung Wong Wai Fong Memorial School 樂善堂梁黃蕙芳紀念學校 (Feb 2013)

On 5th Feb 2013, I attended an open lesson at The Lok Sin Tong Leung Wong Wai Fong Memorial School (樂善堂梁黃蕙芳紀念學校). This was co-organized by the school and e-Class which was an education solution vendor. 

For evey open lesson, it is like a show. Usually teachers will select more mature students from P.4 or above. But for this lesson, Mr. Tang, the demonstrator, was so confident and chose a P.2 class for demonstration purpose. The lesson was on Math and the topic was about multiplication.

Lesson was quite smooth. Mr. Tang used the digital whiteboard a lot. Whenever Mr. Tang asked a question, students raised their hands quickly to show that they knew the answer.

The lesson was conducted for more than 30 minutes and , finally, iPad got into the demonstration in a T&L activity. A paid apps, Math Runner, was used for game-based learning. Two students used one iPad and played the game in "1 vs 1" battle mode. The iPad was also used for consolidation. A PowerLesson quiz was setup to test the students' understanding of the topic. Feedback of the lesson was collected through the PowerLesson platform. Interactive statistical report was immediately generated and Mr. Tang was able to drill down to individual response.

Indeed this was a good demo on how to integrate a Learning Management System (LMS), digital whiteboard, iPad, traditional printed textbook, and learning analytics in a lesson. I observed that e-Class devoted a lot of resources to support this school. In this event, there were over 10 staff from e-Class to support it. 

After the event, I met Mr. Wong, the IT Panel of this school. He was a really helpful and humble person. The relationship between WebOrganic and Mr. Wong was quite strong and there were quite a lot of interactions since our school programme launched in 2011.

I also met some co-workers from e-Class. I found that John Chan, a senior manager from e-Class, was a brother in Christ from my church. Our sons played together in the same room at church. 

Apart from e-Class, there are many LMS solutions in the market, like i-Class from a group of HKU students, Edmodo from Silicon Valley with 15 million users, etc. This event accelerated my understanding of the local market landscape for LMS. 

To conclude, the e-Class PowerLesson solution was quite user-friendly and mature. The open lesson demonstrated not only the LMS but also how it integrated into every day lesson. It was a good show!!!