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Living Knowledge Communities
Mission:“To eliminate capability poverty by creating diverse accesses to quality learning support systems for people in the less developed areas of China and other developing countries, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, and income.”
In China since: 2004
Annual China budget: $150,000
Number of staff: 2
Mainland China contact:
Dr. Philip K F Hui
Founder and President
365, 9/F., Hennessy Road,
Wan Chai, Hong Kong, 85282
Tel: +852 2893 9499
Fax: +852 2838 3463
Incorporated in Hong Kong in June 2004, Living Knowledge Communities uses information technology and face-to-face professional teacher trainings to raise language and teaching capcity of rural middle school English teachers from poor areas of western China. These trainings aim to improve rural language education by raising teachers’ level of oral English, demonstrating teaching tools to make their lessons more effective, and developing a web-based platform for teachers to continue to raise questions and exchange ideas after the training. By developing a website that serves as an ongoing discussion forum and source of online teaching advice and resources, LiKeCom hopes to foster a virtual ‘community of practice’ among English teachers in western China and give them sustained access to mentors in Hong Kong and elsewhere after the training is over.
In Summer 2004, LiKeCom worked with the Macau-based International Education, Language and Training Association to organise a Global Access Through Education (GATE) project at Yellow Sheep River, Gansu Province. The program provided training in communicative teaching methods in an all-English immersion environment to 88 middle school English teachers from western provinces. Over the 2005 spring festival, LiKeCom held a training course for English teachers using distance learning technology provided by the Qinghua University School of Continuing Education. Volunteer trainers and mentors were based on-site in Beijing and Ningxia to give face-to-face coaching to teachers, but parts of the training were also beamed by satellite to 48 rural counties, reaching an additional 850 teachers in distance-technology equipped classrooms.
Most of LiKeCom’s Council members are professional Hong Kong educators ranging from middle school level to university. They rely on an all-volunteer team of trainers and mentors to implement the trainings and maintain the online discussion forum
Links
http://www.likecom.org
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