ICT-enabled strategies

Building Topical Content Knowledge through Video-based Questioning

This practice focuses on the use of videos and questioning to guide students' processing of the video content. It scaffolds students' building of topical content knowledge and help them create a repository of examples and cases that they can use in their essays to support their claims.

Critical Viewing of Film Texts through a Systemic Approach

The Systemic Approach draws on multimodal discourse frameworks developed in earlier research to provide students with a language to scaffold the discussion of film texts. It helps students learn where and what to look for in a film text, and understand the meanings in films and view them critically.

Developing Media Literacy Skills through Newscasting

Deepen understanding of media messages through explicit teaching of media skills and teacher-facilitated newscast productions. Students are given opportunities to research on real-world issues, script, produce and present their newscast 'live' to show what they have learnt.

Facilitating Critical Reading through Pedagogical Scaffolds and Collaboration

Use real-time feedback through WiRead, a web-based collaborative critical reading and learning analytics environment to make reading engagement and progress visible. Students engage in collaborative critique of multimodal texts that comprised written words, visual imagery and videos.