Xiaoxuan Fang

• Doctor of Education
• Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong

To promote computational thinking in mathematics education, Scratch is used to foster students’ computational thinking and mathematical understanding. However, students face challenges in block-based programming environments, such as having low motivation, high anxiety, and cognitive loads. This study combined the pedagogical values of Geogebra and...

Digital technologies have transformed the educational landscape, creating entirely new opportunities and experiences for intergenerational learning. Although studies have explored the relationship between the two topics, the types of digital technologies in intergenerational learning have not been adequately researched. The purpose of this study wa...

Driven by the advanced development of artificial intelligence (AI), multiple Generative AI (GenAI) tools have been created in recent years. These tools can generate text, images, and videos to facilitate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ digital multimodal composing (DMC) practices. To explore the potential of using GenAI in DMC, this p...

Due to the advancement of natural language generation, a subset of artificial intelligence, digital tools that can generate human-like text have arisen. Such tools can play a promising role in facilitating students' writing growth. Among them, one recent noteworthy tool is Sudowrite, which is designed for creative story writing. This technology rev...

For decades or centuries, librarians and language teachers have been concerned about students' reading abilities, as it is one of the key indicators regarding the primary student’s future academic success (Cooper et al., 2014). Developed in 2014 by Chu (the last author of this article) and his team, Reading Battle (RB) is a reading platform targete...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced Chinese cross-border students in Hong Kong to participate in online homeschooling for three years while local students attended face-to-face schooling when the situation released. Previous studies have explored the learning challenges or educational inequity among students in online learning during the pandemic. Limited...

The Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction or ARCS model is an effective motivational model that has been widely accepted by education practitioners. Literature on the ARCS model has focused primarily on aspects of educational settings, research methods, and outcomes. However, few studies have addressed the applications of the ARCS mode...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers faced challenges conducting data collection. However, emerging communication technologies, such as web-conferencing platforms, provided an alternative mode of data collection. Among these platforms, Zoom stands out for its functional affordances and unique features that support data collection methods, incl...

We presented a design-based study within the context of a four-session Scratch programming activity among 23 four-grade students in Hong Kong. Inspired by the computational thinking (CT) strategies and the 5E instructional model, we investigated students’ mathematics learning of fractions in a Scratch (block-based programming) environment. Students...

Due to the varied social inequities, the pandemic has prompted unprecedented attention to the social divides in learning gains via online/blended learning. It has been identified that approximately 27,000 Chinese cross-border students live on the Mainland but attend Hong Kong schools every day. The pandemic has restricted the passage of the Shenzhe...

With the digital revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in language education, the way how people write and create stories has been transformed in recent years. Although recent studies have started to examine the roles of AI in literacy, there is a lack of sys- tematic review to inform how it has been applied and what has been achieved in story...

The purpose of this study is to perform a comprehensive analysis on the successful curriculum reform in Shenzhen Pingzhou Primary School, which implements a new curriculum system that adopts Gardner's eight intelligences to develop eight intelligences curricula (open formula curriculum). Furthermore, the study provides holistic research on the prin...