Dr Sean McMinn is the director of the Center for Education Innovation at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, overseeing strategic planning for technology-enhanced teaching and learning.
Considering the implications of AI that can write at near-human levels, the role of teachers and assessments in schools needs to shift. Teachers should see themselves as facilitators who guide and support students through the learning process, rather than a single source of knowledge.
The Covid-19 crisis extends beyond Hong Kong politics and China. Singaporeans and Hongkongers have been racially targeted overseas because of the virus. Pinning the virus on China only reinforces bigotry and racism.
Memes work by oversimplification and appeal to raw emotion, they are provocative, incapable of complexities and, in Hong Kong’s case, serve to fan the fires that divide. Meme sharers should think twice.