Dr. Michael Rivera’s course “All You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Humans” demonstrates an innovative approach to teaching essential literacies for public engagement. By incorporating a range of multimodal assessment tasks – from social media posts and school talks to children’s books and YouTube videos – the course empowers students to share their scientific knowledge…

Students worked with external educational games consultants Press Start Academy to design analogue and digital games to teach citizenship, sustainability, corporate ethics, and other 21st century skills such as collaboration and critical thinking. The game design process stimulated students to think about their audience, understand the mechanics behind player engagement, and how to communicate through…

HKU undergraduate students participated in creating a movement and multimedia art installation initiated by the artist Yaya Chen, Leeman, and Moon.Noon at the Hong Kong School of Creativity. The installation explored themes of connection, entanglement, subtraction, and wellbeing. Students assisted the director, choreographer, multimedia specialist, videographer and other professionals in setting up and recording the…