Technion, Innovation, Education, China

Technion Promotes Science and Technology Innovations in Education, in China

A delegation of Technion professors and lecturers has recently returned from a conference on innovation and creative action in education held in Shenzhen, China. About 700 science teachers and school principals from Guangdong Province attended the conference, which was on the topic of science and technology innovations in education.

Prof. Orit Hazan, the Head of the Technion’s Department of Education in Science and Technology, gave the opening lecture at the conference on the topic of “Innovation in Science and Technology Education in Israel.” In her lecture she emphasized the need to encourage different processes and change to promote innovation in general as well as how cooperation between education, academia, industry and the public sector can promote innovation in science and technology education.

In addition, lecturers and graduate students from the Technion’s Department of Education in Science and Technology led workshops for school principals in a number of topics: mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer science.

The seminars were held as part of the activities of Technion International in China, in cooperation with the Education Department of Guangdong Province and the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau.

“The city of Shenzhen is a twin-city of Haifa,” said Prof. Paul Feigin the Vice President for Strategic Projects at the Technion, who was one of the organizers of the conference. “The purpose of the conference was to promote the Technion and its scientific achievements to science teachers teaching in the city’s schools, so that they would recommend the institute to their students.”