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新聞稿（即時發佈） 2015年6月29日
教育大同論壇2015：「我要真假期」圓滿舉行
從孩子需要出發 反思教育選擇！
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那邊廂，七百位家長通宵輪候補習班；這邊廂，愈來愈多家長及學校意識到過分催谷孩子的弊端，決心試圖作出改變。由家長發起、提倡教育有選擇的慈善團體「教育大同」於6月27及28日舉行了第二屆論壇，今年的主題是「我要真假期：減少功課，學得更多。」活動請來多位在主流學制中走出不平凡的家長、老師及校長，及多位創意教育實踐者，一同探討功課與評核的實際效能，思考在沒有功課的假期中，孩子如何可學得更好更多。
首天論壇：中文大學
開幕講者，
中大亞太研究所聯席所長趙永佳教授先解釋假期的緣起及演變；之後有帶領綠腳丫親子讀書會的柯佳列先生，細說如何透過親子繪本閱讀為社會創造更大價值，讓更多家長透過參加親大埔舊墟公立學校（寶湖道）校長大埔舊墟公立學校（寶湖道）校長徐俊祥博士介紹學校如何回應家長的少功課、少操練及真假期的訴求；「天使家庭中心」及「流浪。生命工程」創辦人黃鎮昌講述他一位學生，如何透過流浪學習克服讀寫障礙，到德國大學讀工程；外籍英語老師Ms Sarah Capel如何在天水圍基層中學燃點學生學英語的興趣；台灣新北市書香文化推廣協會理事長蔡淑媖女士、青田教育基金會教育顧問韋惠英女士、書伴我行（香港）基金會培訓導師王素瑩女士講述親子共讀和用故事書取代教科書學英文的成果；啟道教育城行政總監Harry哥哥介紹魔術教育的全人學習；芬蘭Songhi公司業務發展總監Mr. Manuel G Somonte介紹可幫助任何人學習創意的網上作曲平台；香港大學中文教育研究中心總監謝錫金教授聯同香港教育學院兒童研究與創新中心總監鄭佩華博士，探討最適合孩子的學習方法，特別嘉賓立法會議員葉建源更到場介紹教協最近對TSA的調查結果，並預告他在立法會爭取消小三TSA的工作。
論壇第二天：兆基創意書院
由創不同召集人及創意書院校監黃英琦女士主持開幕演講，題目為「要真假期，更要創意教育。」其後，整座創意書院化身嘉年華會場，超過三十個不同單位聚首一堂，為參加者呈獻不同主題的工作坊，當中包括深受家長歡迎的綠腳丫「童書入社區」、「童樂合作社：3,000塊積木任你砌」、多個自學家庭及在香港新近成立的森林幼稚園分享，論壇更邀請到「飄流教室」及「Sailability航能」帶來兩艘小艇，讓與會者親身瞭解怎樣能透過船來學習。
教育大同幾位負責人，張惠侶、何美儀及王義光說：「繼上年舉行的『教育有選擇』論壇後，『我要真假期』是我們對催谷式學習文化的一個否定。我們這一代的大人和孩子都忙得沒時間好好休息，好好過些家庭生活，在重大壓力下，孩子既學不好，很多健康及社會問題亦隨之而生。在暑假前，希望能透過論壇，讓家長與學校深思真假期的真意義，學習是有很多方式的，不要再為考得好成績而操練了，將時間重撥給孩子及家庭生活吧！不論孩子、家庭、社會都一定會獲益更多。」
有關教育大同
慈善團體「教育大同」由一群家長在2014年自發成立，旨在集思廣益、聚眾之力，鼓勵家長、教育界以至社會各界重新思考教育，勇於選擇忠於孩子需要的教育模式，共譜教育大同的理想。「教育大同」的成員來自教育界、資訊科技界、傳媒界、商界及法律界，眾人深感本地教育發展逐漸倒果為因，過度着重考試成績，智力以外，學生個別的身心發展需要卻備受冷待。期望透過舉辦會議與各界分享，推廣一些在世界上廣被接受但在香港卻被誤解的教育理念；並透過瞭解孩子及年青人現在和未來的需要，幫助大家在教育方面作出明智和有彈性的選擇。
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For Immediate Release 29 June 2015
EDiversity “We Need a Break” Education Conference 2015:
Parents and experts gathered to discuss education choices that truly cater the needs of children
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While it was reported earlier on that 700 parents queued up all night for tutorial class enrolment, on the other hand, an increasing number of parents and schools become aware of the problems of overly intensive drilling on children, and thus decide to effect changes. The parent-initiated charity organisation EDiversity has organised its second Education Conference titled “We Need a Break: Drill less, Learn more” on 27 and 28 June. The event has also invited parents, teachers and principals who have adopted extraordinary approaches within mainstream education system, as well as practitioners of creative education to investigate the effectiveness of homework and assessments, and explore how children can learn more and better in a genuine holiday without assignments.
First day of the conference: the Chinese University of Hong Kong
The conference commenced with the opening address by Prof. Stephen Chiu, Co-Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK, who explained the origin and development of holidays. Following was the sharing by MrKenny Or from Little Green Feet, who illustrated how the family reading habit of picture books can create a bigger value for the community, allowing more parents to take part in the family activities and avoid becoming a “monster parent”. Dr Tsui Chun Cheung, Principal of Tai Po Old Market Public School (Plover Cove), demonstrated how his school has been responding to parents’ request for fewer assignments and drillings, but a genuine holiday. Founder of Angels Family Centre & Life Inspire Mr. Marco Wong narrated the story of one of his students, who overcame his dyslexic problem and enrolled in the Department of Engineering in a German university via learning in a backpacking holiday. Native English Teacher Ms Sarah Capel shared her experience of triggering the interest of learning English in the students of a grassroots secondary school in Tin Shui Wai. Ms Tsai Shu Ying, Taipei County Books and Reading Association, Ms Wai Wai Ying, Educational Consultant of Greenfield Education Fund Ltd, and Ms Percie Wong, Reading Education Trainer of Bring Me a Book, revealed the effective results of cultivating children to become book-lovers and replacing textbooks with story books in teaching English. MrHarry Wong, CEO of Kido Town, explained how magic education can facilitate holistic education. MrManuel G Somonte, Director of Business Development of the Finnish company Songhi, introduced an online songwriting platform that can assist anyone in creative learning. Prof. Tse Shek Kam, Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research, Faculty of Education, HKU, was joined by Dr Doris Cheng, Director of the Centre for Childhood Research and Innovation and Associate Professor of the HK Institute of Education, to explore the most suitable learning approach for children. Special guest MrIp Kin Yuen, Legislative Councillor, presented the survey findings on TSA by HKPTU, and announced his plan of urging for the cancellation of Primary Three TSA at the Legislative Council.
Second day of the conference: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
An opening talk was given by Ms Ada Wong, Founder of MaD and HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, on the topic of “Creative Education”. Afterwards, the venue was transformed into a carnival with over 30 participating units, presenting workshops of various themes. For example, some features well-received by parents included “Community picture books campaign” by Little Green Feet, “3,000 wooden blocks at your leisure” by Portfolio Categories, and the sharing of homeschooling families and the recently established Hong Kong Forest Kindergarten. The conference also invited “Floating Classroom” and “Sailability” to demonstrate how children can learn via a boat.
Cam Cheung, Doreen Ho and Nicholas Wang from EDiversity shared, “Following last year’s ‘We Need Choices’ Education Conference, we organised ‘We Need a Break’ conference as a refusal to the drilling culture in education. Both adults and children of this generation are so busy that they don’t even have the time to take a good rest or enjoy family life. Under the intense pressure, children find it difficult to learn effectively, while many health and social problems emerge as a result. Before the start of the summer vacation, we would like to invite parents and schools to reflect upon the significance of real holidays via this conference. Actually education can have many possible ways, so please don’t insist on the intensive drillings just for some scores, but give children back their time and family life! It would certainly be incredible beneficial to children, families and even society.”
About EDiversity
EDiversity is a charity organisation founded by a group of parents in 2014. It aims to gather the collective effort to encourage parents, educators as well as the public to reexamine the current education system, to allow deviant education modes that suit children’s need, and to achieve the ideal of educational diversity. Members of EDiversity come from a variety of backgrounds, including education, information technology, media, business and legal services. They are concerned that local education has taken a wrong direction by over-emphasising examination results and intellectual performance but neglecting the physical and mental developments of individual students. Via conferences and sharing sections, the organisation hopes to promote education concepts that are widely accepted worldwide but misunderstood in Hong Kong; by understanding the current and future needs of children and youngsters, it also strives to offer wiser and more flexible choices in education.
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