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Speech: Let there be interludes in life
Prof. Tse Shek Kam
Director of the ‘Centre for the Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research’ , Faculty of Education, the University of HK
Professor Tse has been providing consultancy service to a number of organizations, including Chinese Education Centre of the Netherlands Government, Ministry of Education, Singapore, Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government and the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of Macao Government. He has beenNational Research Coordinator of the Hong Kong element of Progress in International Reading Literacy Study(PIRLS) since 2000. His research interests include the teaching and learning of reading and spoken literacy, the learning and teaching of Chinese as first and second language, early childhood Chinese language education, bi-lingual reading, computer assisted language learningand ways of assessing and monitoring language learning.He has published more than 30 books, 90 book chapters and 100 research articles.
Email: [email protected]
Website:
Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER) http://www.cacler.hku.hk / http://www.chineseedu.hku.hk
Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong http://www.hku.hk/curric/sktse
Support Centre for Teachers Using Chinese as the medium of Instruction http://www.cmi.hku.hk
Dr. Cheng Pui Wah, Doris
Director of Centre for Childhood Research and Innovation | Associate Professor, HKIED
Dr. Doris Cheng is the Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Childhood Research and Innovation in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. She has been serving early childhood teacher education for more than twenty years which has given her extensive knowledge in the field. She was awarded a merit of the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1998 from her Institute. Doris's research interest is on the learning and teaching of young children, especially on the enactment of 'learning through play' . She has published extensive in international referee journals and book chapters in the area of play and learning. Doris was awarded a Public Policy Research funding (008-2010) by the Hong Kong Government Central Policy Unit to work on the quality of implementing "play" in the Hong Kong Early Childhood Education context. She commits herself to international discourse on enhancing the quality of "play-based pedagogy" and has recently been invited by LEGO Foundation to be the core team member in the Global Research & Innovation Network in 2015. Doris is active in dialoguing with international scholars to promote quality learning environment for children. She has been working with the University of Cambridge and acts as the consultant of a Play, Learning and Narrative Writing project in the University since 2013. At present, she is preparing and co-organizing an international conference on quality childhood education with the University of Cambridge, U.K..
Mr. Harry Wong (Harry Goh Goh)
CEO, The Kido Town
Speech: Magic Education
A renowned children’s programme host in Hong Kong, Harry appeals to children and adults alike with his keen sense of humour and amazing magic. Music and magic have been part of his life since he was young and he has been serving the community by bringing joy to all with these gifted skills. Harry started hosting a children’s TV programme with Radio Television Hong Kong in 1986 before he joined Metro-Broadcast in 1991 as a bilingual DJ, and was later promoted to Channel Director for FM Select in 1996. He has hosted children’s programmes on ATV and TVB, and is currently with i-Cable’s Kids Channel.
Harry has been a guest performer with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Dance Company and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. While regularly turning out new shows for family audience of Hong Kong and Canada, he is also a much sought-after MC and entertainer for corporate events in various parts of the world. Stage performance aside, Harry is also the founder of the project, Healing-Magic, in 2001, through which he shares his magic with professional therapists to apply the art of magic and hypnosis for therapeutic use.
As a leading specialist in children’s music education, Harry is currently the Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Arts Academy for Children and a member of the European Recorder Players’ Society. His series of music textbooks, Music Today, and his recorder methods have been widely adopted by primary schools throughout Hong Kong. Harry’s original compositions and Cantonese interpretations of Rick Scott songs are made into a CD album, The 5 Elements, which has won the 2004 North American Parenting Publications Gold Award and the 2004 Parents’ Choice Award in the USA. He is now the CEO of KIDO Town, a children education institution, aims to use Invitational Education to nurture young children.
Manuel G Somonte (FIN)
Business Development Director, Songhi
Speech: Gamification of Education
Workshop: Gamification of education:make your own music
Mr. Somonte is responsible for the company's external product growth and sustainable planning in all its product lines. His job demands meticulous research, focus, and above all else, impartiality in its execution. Manuel has a strong technical record in the mobile software, education and gaming industry of more than 10 years, with a background in companies like Nokia, Rovio and King and studies in the area of computer engineering and sustainable economic development.