Connecting Hong Kong and Canadian Students: A Teacher Training Project Undergirded by New Media Literacies

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Abstract

To spark teacher candidates’ search of their significance in shaping the 21st Century education, this research linked 47 Hong Kong and 35 Canadian students in a new participatory culture project. The theoretical framework of new media literacies offered conceptual coherence to implement the research. This paper reports the qualitative data with quantitative descriptions of participants’ social interactivity within a new participatory community. Findings relate the effects of civic debates and collaborative problem-solving upon teacher candidates’ enhanced understanding of local and global educational challenges and their agency-building of engaging online participation, new media technologies, and cultural and linguistic diversity in education.

Authors

• Zheng Zhang, Western University

• Jia Li, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

• Zhuang Miao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Feifei Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong