Teacher Insights

Jan 27
2021

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....

Oct 07
2020

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...

Apr 22
2020

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...

Feb 17
2020

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Future Learning Project exists is because of the gap between how rapidly the world is changing when compared with often outdated learning experiences in many schools and...

Feb 10
2020

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...

Jan 09
2020

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...

Nov 26
2019

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...

May 27
2019

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. A New Year’s Resolution, for