The Nantou County Government on Monday held a news conference to announce the launch of an online remote teaching pilot program for elementary-school students.
The program, designed to increase the quality of education in the county’s resource-scarce elementary schools, employs information technology to allow students access to highly rated teachers and other resources, the Nantou Department of Education said.
Fifteen elementary schools in Nantou are enrolled in the program, as well as 13 schools in New Taipei City, Kaohsiung and Pingtung County, the department said.
The schools involved are to dedicate one class per week to online education, the department said.
The program offers four technology-assisted teaching subprograms: mobile and digital reading, Thao culture, a flipped classroom model module, robotics, and science and tourism-oriented English, the department said, adding that schools can choose modules best adapted to their needs.
For example, participating schools in Puli Township (埔里) and Yuchi Township (魚池) — which have a high proportion of children of the Thao Aboriginal community — decided to select the Thao module, and Jhushan Township’s (竹山) Liyues Elementary School — which is near the Taji Splendor Land tourism area — is to focus on tourism-oriented English, the department said.
At the news conference, officials and guests also used online teaching software to interact with elementary-school students in the Philippines, which the county government said would be used in the future for its proposed international English-language education with its Philippine partners.
Event organizers also connected children from three schools participating in the pilot program to electroencephalogram remote-control devices and taught them to how control toy cars on a miniature race track by using their brainwaves.
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