Digital Curricular Literacies and Project Work: A suite of three studies

Peter Freebody (PI), John Hedberg (PI), Christine Chin (Co-Investigator), Tan Helen Doreen  (Co-Investigator)
Email: kenneth.lim@nie.edu.sg

The project relates directly to recent initiatives of the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) on ‘Extended Learning Tasks’ and on the use of ICTs in school learning. The term Digital Curriculum Literacies (DCL) refers to the use of ICTs within the Curriculum, in particular, as they support knowledge acquisition and production in multiple modalities and call upon varieties and combinations of literacy capabilities.

The general questions this research suite will address are:

DCL I: How do teachers guide students in their ICT-related project work through their classroom interactions? How can that guidance be improved?

DCL II: How do students engage in on-line extension tasks? How can that be improved?

DCL III: How do students construct and craft their assessable ICT-related projects? How can the linguistic/textual and multimodal features of those outcomes be improved?

Source of funding: CRPP