NEWSLETTER 2019-20
Liberal Studies Week and other Activities
-Computer AI are so powerful to imitate every tradition painting technique. Is it worth teaching children how to make artworks in traditional ways?
-Do you think someday robots equipped with artificial intelligence can replace real teachers, as knowledge now can be easily found in the Internet and Wikipedia?
-Suggest a historical figure who you think was successful. Explain the reason why he or she could succeed.
The above are some open-ended questions raised in the Quiz Competition during the Liberal Studies week on December 2019. It was a challenge to the participants. It was like secondary students trying to handle topics at university level.
We are so pleased to see how our participants seriously prepared for the quiz and had reference to a diverse range of materials. Even form one students were brave, calm and confident enough to answer the open-ended questions in front of the whole school. The answers are generally well equipped with examples, thus convincing.
Other activities of Liberal Studies Week included two teacher-students debates. We have discovered some new talents. Furthermore, we have invited an NGO to conduct an insightful seminar on the issue of plastic marine pollution, hoping it can raise students’ awareness and lead to actions.
Activities apart from Liberal Studies Week were equally meaningful. One of them is the visit to the exhibition ‘See the world with a hundred objects’. It was a great opportunity to understand achievements of various civilizations.
通識週一如以往，鼓勵學生思考
-人工智能神通廣大，能模仿所有的繪畫技巧。在此情況下，還值得教授下一代傳統的繪畫藝術嗎？
-如今資訊爆炸之時代，知識在網上唾手可得。你認為人工智能的機器人，是否可以取代老師？
-請選擇一位你認為成功的歷史人物，並解釋甚麼原因令他/她成功。
以上都是一些時事常識問題比賽的開放式問題，對參加的同學而言，是越級挑戰，中學生思考大學生的課題。
見同學們慎密準備，參考多方資料，中一學生膽敢出馬作答，氣定神閒，答案頗有情理及說服力，一眾組織活動的老師都十分快慰。
通識週的其他活動包括兩場師生辯論，當中發掘一些辯論人才。另外，邀請坊間NGO講塑膠污染海洋生態之問題，盼同學關注，用心良苦。
通識週以外，課外活動同樣精彩，亮點之一，就是中二同學參觀了「百物看世界」--大英博物館藏品展，一覽人類文明成就。
Each team in the Quiz Competition composes of junior and senior students. 時事常識問答比賽中，每組都有高低年級的同學。
Brave junior student delivering his elaborated answer in front of the whole school.
中二就在台上面對大眾，答案情理兼備，相當有勇氣。
評判老師評分甚忙，不忘說笑。
Our teachers were having fun though the work as judges was busy.
中二學生參觀「百物看世界」--大英博物館藏品展，一覽人類文明成就。
Our F2 students visited the exhibition ‘See the world with 100 objects’, which exhibits previous gems in the British Museum. It was a golden opportunity to understand mankind’s achievements.