In celebration of World Book Day, the "Online Synchronous Reading Fun" event, hosted by the Department of Education, Taipei City Government and co-organized by the Global TEAM Model Smart Education Institute, TTLITDA, and other partners, successfully connected multiple schools and hundreds of teachers and students across counties. Over three consecutive days, participants embarked on a profound and heartwarming reading journey during their morning periods.
This event utilized the HiTeach interactive classroom combined with video conferencing platforms to create a real-time interactive reading environment, attracting hundreds of students over the three days. Children from different schools met in the cloud, enhancing their reading comprehension and broadening their learning horizons through text reading, instant answering, and idea exchange—truly putting cross-domain co-learning into practice in the digital age.
🌈 3 Major Themes × Diverse Reading Experiences
🔹 Session 1 | Colorful Language & Positive Communication
Using "The Power of the Fourth Leaf" as the text, students were guided to think about "uniqueness" and self-worth, practicing positive expression through interactive feedback to build confidence and empathy.
🔹 🌍 Session 2 | Real World & Social Awareness
Using an article from The Reporter for Kids on e-cigarettes and peer relationships to cultivate students' media literacy and value judgments, deepening their understanding of real-world issues.
🔹 🌼 Session 3 | Everyday Objects & Wonders on Paper
Focusing on "toilet paper," this session extended from daily life to history and knowledge, stimulating curiosity and helping students see the extraordinary in ordinary things.
🌟 Digital Reading × Cross-School Co-Learning
All three events demonstrated the application value of digital technology in reading instruction:
- ✔ Real-time interactive quizzes enhance focus and engagement.
- ✔ Synchronous cross-school reading creates diverse interaction scenarios.
- ✔ Combining text comprehension with critical thinking guides deep learning.
Students generally provided feedback that the event was "interesting, fun, and rewarding," which not only boosted their reading motivation but also helped them better understand the text. Teachers affirmed that this model effectively promoted student engagement and provided a rare cross-school learning experience.
💬 Authentic Echoes of Teaching and Learning From students saying they are "more motivated to read" and "learned to see themselves and the world from different perspectives," to teachers observing that "texts are close to life, issues trigger thinking" and "digital interaction improves learning outcomes"—all these show that this event successfully combined reading content with learning scenarios, making reading not just about understanding words, but a journey of self-discovery and global connection.
▼ Detailed reports of the three-day event below (Sourced from
Taipei Reading FB page)
Session 1: Colorful Language — Positive Communication
🍀 [Distinguished Guests] Huang Fu-Tsai (Taipei Dept. of Education) Prof. Chen Hsin-Hsi Principal Chen Pei-Yu Principal Huang Yu-Po Principal Chen Li-Ying
🍀 [Participating Schools] Nangang JH Longmen JH Chongqing JH Xinyi JH Jiancheng JH Tianmu JH Fuhe JH (New Taipei) Sanhe ES (Taichung) Jinhu ES (Kinmen)
🍀 [Event Features]
- 🌟 Digital platforms build a bridge of hearts: The HiTeach Interactive Classroom and Google Meet brought together over 220 students from different counties and schools, turning the morning time into a cross-time-and-space online co-reading moment.
- 🌟 Exploring "The Power of the Fourth Leaf": The story acted like a mirror, allowing children to see their own unique "fourth leaf" traits, hoping everyone can embrace their truest, most special selves.
- 🌟 Magic decryption of tearing off labels: Through interactive reading quizzes, we explored the invisible "gray dot stickers" in life, understanding that we have the power to view things positively and grow our own fourth leaf power.
- 🌟 Real-time interactive "Flying Text": Using HiTeach's real-time feedback feature, children wrote down their most sincere feelings in the "Flying Text," practicing positive communication together.
📬 [Real-Time Feedback]- 💌 Word cloud of feedback from students: Reading, Activity, Interesting, Fun, Happy.
- 💌 Student from Longmen JH: It's very special to participate in an activity with students from all over Taipei. It's rare to have the chance to discuss books with so many people.
- 💌 Lai O-Ching (Sanhe ES): Don't blame yourself for being different from others, believe in yourself!
- 💌 Tsai O-Ting (Jinhu ES): It's very interesting. It's great to have everyone's company!
- 💌 Lin O-Hsiu (Fuhe JH): Through such activities, people can be more motivated to read.
- 💌 Cheng O-Ling (Xinyi JH): This activity let me know that it's okay to be "different"!
- 💌 Lin O-Yi (Jiancheng JH): Just be yourself, don't care too much about how others look at you!
- 💌 Teacher Yang Yu-Lan (Jinhu ES): Through the real-time interaction of the HiTeach system, geographical limitations were broken... Seeing the children focused on their tablets, the atmosphere of "autonomous reading" was very moving.
- 💌 Teacher Chen Hui-Wen (Longmen JH): Through online interaction with students across Taiwan, they were guided to reflect and look at their uniqueness from different perspectives.
- 💌 Teacher Hsiao Hui-Chun (Da'an JH): It is a very happy thing to meet in the morning and read together. Because of each other, the gift brought by words has a more profound power!
Session 2: Real World — Social Awareness
🍀 [Distinguished Guests] Huang Fu-Tsai (Taipei Dept. of Education) Prof. Chen Hsin-Hsi Principal Pan Tzu-Ling Principal Pai Yu-Ling Principal Lin Kai-Chiung Principal Wang Fu-Tsung
🍀 [Participating Schools] Sanhe ES Minghu JH Donghu JH Jingxing JH Shuangyuan JH Lishan JH
🌟 Event Highlights & Text Intro
Leveraging technology, students enjoyed the fun of reading and answering questions together across schools and counties.
- 📖 Reading Text Intro: Selected from the non-profit media platform The Reporter for Kids. It uses situational comics to present teenagers' doubts about e-cigarettes and their psychological struggle when offered one by a good friend.
- 💡 Quiz Design: Focused on understanding the narrative logic of comics and cultivating observation of "suggestive features." Combined with media literacy education, it guided students to analyze the motives behind peers sharing "pseudo-science" videos, turning the hard topic of tobacco control into deep logical reasoning.
📬 [Student Feedback]- 🔅 Lin O-Yue (Donghu JH): Being able to think about the protagonist's thoughts, I found it quite fun!
- 🔅 Ou O-Yu (Shuangyuan JH): Interesting quizzes, and reading with many friends.
- 🔅 Chung O-Nuan (Sanhe ES): I think this activity is very interesting because it gives me motivation to read.
- 🔅 Chiang O-En (Shuangyuan JH): Using a comic story to tell everyone about the harms of smoking and understand what kind of friendship we need.
- 🔅 Shen O-Hsi (Shuangyuan JH): Today's activity was answering questions with everyone. It was fun and allowed me to deeply understand content I hadn't noticed.
- 🔅 Yeh O-Chen (Minghu JH): The text is very close to reality; it's an issue that needs to be discussed in life.
📬 [Teacher Feedback]- ✏️ Teacher Chou Chien-Ling (Jingxing JH): The topics chosen (peer dilemmas, e-cigarettes, basketball) are all things students care about... Through the teacher's friendly guidance, students learned together with students from other schools, gaining a very rare experience.
- ✏️ Teacher Cheng Ching-Tzu (Jingxing JH): Thanks to the organizers for their careful planning. Children actually feel strongly about this topic, especially in situations involving "inappropriate invitations."
🪄 Finding answers from reading texts and opening up a broader world. Why not take a little time to try it and have a very different reading experience?
Session 3: Everyday Objects — Wonders on Paper
🎩 [Distinguished Guests] Huang Fu-Tsai (Taipei Dept. of Education) Principal Tang Ting-Chun Principal Wang Li-Fen Principal Chang Ying-Fei Principal Lin Kai-Chiung Principal Chen Tse-Min Principal Chang Hsing-Yu Principal Chen Yi-Yun Principal Pan Tzu-Ling
🏫 [Participating Schools] Chengzheng JH Lanya JH Donghu JH Bailing High School (JH Div.) Jiancheng JH Dunhua JH Sanhe ES (Taichung)
⭐️ [Event Highlights & Text Intro]
- 📍 Using IT to enhance reading pleasure with diverse real-time assessments.
- 📍 HiTeach Interactive Classroom and Google Meet allowed over 200 students from 7 schools to read and complete tasks together online during the morning period, showcasing teamwork and echoing the spirit of World Book Day.
- 🍀 "The Extraordinary Toilet Paper": Brought children to discover how adding creativity to an everyday object like toilet paper can make it magical and interesting.
- 🍀 Quiz Design: Explored the history of toilet paper, making it hard for students to imagine how inconvenient it was for ancient people to use the toilet.
- 🍀 Extended Reading: Included "A History of Toilet Paper (and Other Potty Tools)" to encourage continuous self-directed learning.
🍀 [Real-Time Feedback] From the feedback forms, the most common keywords were: Interesting, Reading, Activity, Fun, Learned.
✅ Teacher Feedback:- ☀️ Teacher Lin Chiung-Wen (Chengzheng JH): It's a rare experience for kids to go online with hundreds of students from other schools... Thanks to the "Taipei Reading Community" for opening up a broader reading horizon for the students!
- ☀️ Teacher Chen Yu-Wen (Bailing HS): Thanks to the organizers for letting students participate together and understand the article through reading comprehension tests.
- ☀️ Teacher Li Tsai-Chen (Dunhua JH): Watching students eat breakfast, read the paper articles handed out the day before, and rack their brains over the questions on the tablets—I deeply felt this is the most beautiful scenery in the classroom!
- ☀️ Teacher Cheng I-Pin (Lanya JH): Although participating for the first time, students showed curiosity, knowing smiles, and bursts of laughter during their exploration and thinking... Hoping the kids had a different, fun reading experience!
- ☀️ Teacher Yang Ya-Chun (Sanhe ES): It happened during our midterm exams, but we decided to participate anyway... Knowing it was a nationwide event, students were even more focused due to a sense of honor. Looking forward to participating again next year!
🚀 Reading Continues to Happen
The "Online Synchronous Reading Fun" is not just a three-day event, but a starting point to unlock reading possibilities. Through the integration of technology and instructional design, reading breaks through time and space limitations, continuing to ferment in every child's heart, and becoming a key force for self-directed learning and lifelong growth. In the future, we look forward to more teachers and students joining us to explore the world and see themselves through reading.
- Organizer: Department of Education, Taipei City Government
- Co-organizers: Global TEAM Model Smart Education Institute, TTLITDA, Chian-Yi Tech, Jiego Info
- Partners: Taiwan Cloud Library, The Reporter for Kids, Mandarin Daily News, and more
