“GoodNotes 5 partners with Education Publishing House to revolutionize electronic teaching in Hong Kong”

The Hong Kong-made note-taking tool “GoodNotes 5”, which won Apple’s best iPad app last year, did not stop complacently in the past year, but continued to think of ways to improve, and announced new elements just before this year’s WWDC 2023. They approached Education Publishing House, one of the local textbook publishers in Hong Kong, to cooperate. They want to make good use of their own note-taking experience and cloud functions to save teachers the trouble of preparing textbooks.

According to GoodNotes’ own survey data, most schools in Hong Kong use Apple iPads when conducting electronic teaching, and as many as 60% of teachers use the “GoodNotes 5” app to take notes. Such a result Let them have more confidence to enter the education field.

GoodNotes cooperates with Education Publishing House. First, the latter’s full set of middle school mathematics textbooks are uploaded to the network platform in advance. After logging in, the teacher can download the applicable content with one click, and then open and add notes through the “GoodNotes 5” app in real time . Teachers can save the complicated work of scanning books, transferring PDF files to the iPad one by one, and testing which app is easier to use in the past, and can focus more on the teaching part.

During actual teaching, the teacher can share the required textbook content with the students’ iPad or project it to the electronic whiteboard, and write with the digital strokes of the “GoodNotes 5” app. The content of the middle school mathematics subject that was released for the first time has many abstract graphic computing topics, but with the help of digital brushstrokes that can be changed interactively, students can understand the principles behind it more concretely. Teachers can also prepare the problem-solving steps in advance through the recording and screen recording functions of the “GoodNotes 5” app, so that students can see each prompt as if they were in the situation when reviewing alone.

Interestingly, the reason why the founder Steven Chan developed “GoodNotes” was to make it easier for him to review mathematics when he was in college, so today’s cooperation can be regarded as a return to the original intention.

According to the explanation of the Education Press, the contents of the e-books will only be used by teachers as auxiliary teaching materials, and will not directly replace paper textbooks. This part is also to comply with the Hong Kong Education Bureau’s book selection regulations. Not only is it following the rapid development of electronic teaching in response to the epidemic in the past, different stakeholders in the education sector are actually promoting electronic textbooks, so that students will no longer need to carry heavy books on their backs one day. You can go to school simply by picking up a tablet computer, which can also enhance the fun of learning.