VBS News Net: Accompanied by Mr Chen Qingtao, Head of Education IT Centre at Longhua District, Head of Education IT Centre Ms Zhang Huimin, Vice-head of Education IT Centre Mr Liang Wei visited VBS to inspect the development of Education Cloud application on 31st October. Principal Yang and Ms Zheng, Head of Development Centre, along with other teachers, extended welcome to the guests. 

Principal Yang first reported the application and introduced the VBS curricula which integrated both Chinese and Western education system. She said that the resources from Education Cloud provided enormous support for both teachers and students. VBS purchased some ME lessons and more than 700 lessons from Khan Academy into the cloud platform system, which offered more study opportunities to students. AI classes had become the compulsory lesson and the most favourite class among VBS students.  

So far VBS actively organsed teachers to take part in the demonstration classes for the Education Cloud in Longhua District. Some teachers had already started using resources from Education Cloud website by connecting to the teaching assistant software using their iMac. Mr Yan Xiaoliang presented an open class to the whole school and his thoughts on the software.  

Mr Chen commended highly on the advanced network equipment and curricula of VBS. He believed that the cloud platform was the field for experience. As one of the demonstration schools to experience 5G network, VBS could overcome constraints to innovate and set by examples to focus on the area for students to learn through experience.  

Ms Zhang listened attentively to the reports made by Principal Yang and teachers on the applications of Education Cloud. She asked the technicians to and solve the technical issues encountered during application . Ms Zhang commended highly on the school philosophy and the curricula. She encouraged VBS to be a pilot school which would have the 12-year system by establishing a high school which was different from any other international school. She pointed out the future of education in Shenzhen would be the practice to utilise Internet when integrating resources from society into curricula to motivate students' independence in their studies. 

The research group inspected the networks and school compound onsite. 

Their visit had specified the development goals for VBS and provided technical support for the next waves of promotion and implementation of Education Cloud, which was crucial for VBS to undertake innovation in education and the pilot program. 

Author / Photographer: Linda

Formatting: Judy

Translated by DC Lai