Human Technologies – Metacognition in Action
Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity: Innovation and Teacher of Human Technologies at ICHK
“I used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the human body, then I realised…Hey! Look what’s telling me that”!
Emo Phillips (Comedian)
Here’s a question: Would you be a passenger in an automatic, driverless car?… Read more
A Barefoot Hiker’s Guide to the MacLehose Trail
Saie Ryu Lee is a Learning Support Assistant at ICHK
Inspiration:
I was heavily inspired by British barefoot running enthusiast, Tony Riddle’s personal challenge of running the length of the UK completely barefoot in 30 days. His life story and message really resonated with me, and sowed the seeds for the idea of undertaking a long barefoot walk myself.… Read more
High-Stakes Mistakes: Adventures in CrowdFunding
Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity: Innovation and Teacher of Human Technologies at ICHK
While most sensible people welcomed the Christmas Holiday as a chance to relax and unwind, I did the exact opposite and launched a Kickstarter campaign timed to finish just before our return to school.… Read more
Re-framing grief and growing through loss
Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity and Human Technologies Teacher at ICHK
School counsellor Christy Tsui and I recently had the opportunity to work with the London-based, co-creative collective weglimpse.co. a voluntary group of media and marketing professionals who donate their expertise to charities and NGOs.… Read more
Top Ten Tips for Teaching in a Crisis
Douglas Kidd is Director of Out of Class and Experiential Education at ICHK.
Introduction
These ideas are offered as the result of our experience in International College Hong Kong, a private not-for-profit secondary school. Hong Kong was hit early within the global scheme of things with school closure and a shift to online learning.… Read more
The workplace is changing fast – this is how and why
Sean McDermott is Deputy Head of School at ICHK and writes for The Future Learning Project
One of the key reasons why The Future Learning Project exists is because of the gap between how rapidly the world is changing when compared with often outdated learning experiences in many schools and education systems.… Read more
Can We Stop Software From Eating School?
Ross Parker is Director of Technology and Assessment at ICHK
In 2011, Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of the venerable Netscape, observed that “software is eating the world”. His observation was intended to reflect the way that computers, and the software they run, were flipping the business world on its head. … Read more
The Guilin Adventure
Dave Addis is an Experiential Educator at ICHK
So, what happens when a group of nine Yr8 and 9 boys are given the task of leading themselves around southern China?
During December’s Deep Learning, a team of boys were given a 5-day itinerary to follow taking them from Hong Kong, up to the Longji Rice Terraces and finally to the limestone karsts of Yangshuo.… Read more
The Ninja Box” – Experiential learning in the Human Technologies curriculum at ICHK
Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity, Head of Human Technologies at ICHK
As a serious student of ‘Creative Thinking’, few things interest me more than the mental state that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi christened ‘Flow’.
If you’re not familiar with the term, you’ll certainly be familiar with the experience.… Read more
Using Human Technologies to Achieve A Personal Goal
Jamie Holden is a Teacher of Mathematics at ICHK
As 2018 started to come to a close, I reflected on the previous year, as most people do, and started to think of the year ahead. Like most years, I was thinking about New Year and setting a New Year’s Resolution.… Read more