Eric Chung made an important decision while he was on a trip dedicated for international voluntary workers.   He decided to leave the hi-tech industry to pursue something that reflects value of life.  He threw himself into education and wish that every child endows joy through diversified and effective learning.  Let’s hear Eric’s story.

       Mathematics enables you to determine if the amount you pay is correct, if the change from the cashier is correct.  It also enables to determine the appropriate ratio of rice to water when you cook.  Those are areas where you can apply what you have learned in school.  As you go up the education latter, you will come across more complicated knowledge.  I’ve got very special experience when I was in volunteering.  I was building a house and didn’t know what materials would avoid water from leaking into the house.  I found out afterward that I’ve come across it in high school chemistry.  It was calcium carbonate which can be applied on the walls to preventing leakage.
        We would know if the knowledge we learned in school are important only when we want to apply them.  Water-proofing a house can be as simple as that.  Ask yourself how you apply knowledge in the textbooks in the future instead of treating them as materials for getting through lessons and examinations.

       When I was in elementary school, I could only go back home to study by myself if I didn’t get something during lessons.  I might ask my classmates for help sometimes.  I had nowhere to go if it turned out my classmates didn’t have the answer too.  If the same shall happen to you, what would you do? If you dare not ask the teacher, you can ask the Junyi platform for help.  I believe that matters to me.

       Major subjects are determined in advance by the team.  We do not have sufficient staff and resources for all the subjects and questions.  We can start only with the important ones.  The reason why we’ve started mathematics first is that children nowadays find mathematics very difficult and tiresome.  What teacher said may have been forgotten instantaneously.  They go back home with nothing to guide them through the exercise.
       If one wants to achieve an objective, he ought to have an idea of the prerequisite.  He has to practice the necessary skill over and over again.  He has to be able work it out correctly.  In the case he does not get it right, he needs someone to remind him and tell him the correct route of thinking.  If necessary, tell him the correct answer eventually.  Say for an example that you are learning arithmetic division, you have to learn subtraction first but not the other way round.  The necessary skill is subtraction.  There are various functions in the team.  Some works on graphic design whereas some on question design etc.

       That has been discussion internally.  Take an analogy, if a pupil runs into a question when there is no teacher in the classroom.  Having looked into detailed of the corresponding note and video, he still cannot sort it out by himself.  Under such circumstances, he needs someone to help him.  At certain stage, we might allow self-help among the children. We will think of something in case that doesn’t work out.  On-line tutoring is one of the possibilities.

       It is highly difficult to re-design a syllabus.  Textbooks from publisher have been vetted and approved by ministry of education. Some outstanding teachers have taken part in the discussion of the syllabus which is a collection of the important content and topics that pupils have to study in a school term.  These content and topics will be further elaborated and designed before being published by publisher.  From textbooks, teaching aids to individual stories therein have to be detailedly designed.
        Junyi works in a similar fashion.  We perform our own design with reference to the syllabus and reference materials.  However, our design may differ in pattern. We use computer through which user responds to questions.  The computer tells the user what to do next or provides hint when he press a particular button.  It is just like a teacher sitting next to and guiding him along the way.  The questions were created by partners of the content development team.

         Of course.  Each of us has our own account.  When we run into problems, we have to doing testing ourselves.  My Proficiency Index is less than 100 and I have around 300 thousand Energy Points.

     We are planning the “Scratch” course now.  It is a guide that helps the pupils in creating programs.  We will be taking this further to in subsequent stages, e.g. from software layer only to the links between software and hardware.  One may control a model car or tell a box to speak, play music.

      Designing and composing a course is not a simple task.  Our teachers take a lot time in lesson preparation.  What Mr Ching has told us about course design and composition would be even more difficult.  Users’ feedback on usability of the platform is very straight forward.  If one doesn’t like it, he may not use it again.  That is why feedback management and testing are very important in every stage.  A special thanks to the content development team that makes great videos and content.