CoolThink@JC inspires students to use digital creativity in everyday lives and sharpen their skills to use technology for social good from an early age. Packed with interactive and fun lessons, the project prepares young aspirers for the ever-changing digital future.
CoolThink@JC Case Study
Mainstreaming Computational Thinking Education in School System
Throughout the two phases of the CoolThink@JC programme, the number of students educated reached over 100,000 students and more than 30,000 parents. The programme extended its outreach to 100% of publicly funded schools and trained more than 2,000 teachers. In 2023, the Education Bureau adopted and adapted CoolThink@JC materials and mainstreamed them to all primary schools in Hong Kong. This case study documents the local and global impacts, and key takeaways of the project.
Our impact on students
CoolThink@JC empowers students to create a digital future for social good from a young age. It offers equitable access to quality digital and technology learning, including computational thinking and AI, to every student. We ensure that all students experience meaningful technology learning, instead of merely attending an optional lesson or extra-curricular activity, in order to increase digital inclusiveness and narrow the digital divide.
>100,000
unique students served
84%
students satisfied with their learning experience in CoolThink@JC lessons
Our impact on teachers
CoolThink@JC creates a mindset, cultural change and paradigm shift in teaching. Our unique pedagogy and training have transformed CoolThink teachers’ mentality – they are no longer the instructors of students, but facilitators who guides students through their learning. Our training is not exclusive to ICT teachers; Many of CoolThink teachers come from non-IT backgrounds.
>1,500
teachers attended 48+ hours
of professional training;
>90%
teachers expressed confident in teaching CT education inside the classroom.
Our impact on sustainable ecosystem change
CoolThink@JC has reached critical mass adoption in Hong Kong. With our curriculum adopted by 204 aided/DSS primary schools, CoolThink provides 14+ hours of computational thinking and coding education in formal ICT lessons annually to P4-6 students, covering 3 levels and 24 units of sequential materials.
203
CoolThink network schools
237K+
CoolThink lessons delivered
(cumulative data between 2016 and 2022)
100%
Reached all publicly funded primary schools in Hong Kong
Our award winning and world-class learning materials
CoolThink@JC has developed a set of systematic, comprehensive, research-backed and localized CT education curriculum, pedagogy and digital tools for students and teachers. CoolThink materials have been disseminated to various regions including US, New Zealand and Dubai.
Reimagine Education Awards 2021
(Silver Award in the Engineering & IT and Bronze Award in the Presence Learning and Teaching)
International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) Seal of Alignment student standard
Certified by Education Alliance Finland in 2021
Selected as an impactful innovation in HundrEd.org Global Collection 2023
Evidence-based Evaluation
CoolThink@JC engaged SRI International (SRI) to conduct an independent and rigorous evaluation for the project. These findings would provide stakeholders (policymakers, community leaders, educators and other grant-makers) with evidence-based justifications and wider insights on how to introduce a new education initiative.
SRI conducted a rigorous 3-year evaluation of the CoolThink pilot project between 2016 and 2019 and the progress made by its students.
SRI continues to evaluate the “How” and “Why” of the implementation of CoolThink@JC as it scales out to a large majority of primary schools in Hong Kong.
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