Initiatives
WHAT IS IT?
EB is an interactive online English learning and knowledge-building programme for secondary students.
About EB
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
EB is designed to enhance students’ thinking skills, real-world knowledge, and language proficiency through the use of authentic English in authentic contexts. With 13 levels of difficulty, EB aims to help students not only improve their English language skills but also forge an enlightened and global consciousness in preparation for the challenges of the 21st century.
Learning Goals
- develop English language skills
- broaden learners’ horizons
- nurture personal and intellectual development
Benefits for Learners
Students are immersed in an authentic language-rich environment, simulating real-life contexts. Learning is enhanced through a dynamic approach involving a series of short and relevant listening, reading, speaking and vocabulary tasks.
As students progress through the levels, they will also improve critical thinking and self-management skills. Students will be able to use English to understand, think and respond.
In addition to extending students’ English language skills, and enhancing understanding of different writing styles and text formats, EB also facilitates the exploration of local and global issues.
Benefits for Educators
- Cohesive Learning Objectives
Foundation build the foundations of English language.
Levels 1 – 3 develop listening and reading skills & enhance real-world knowledge.
Levels 4 – 6 reinforce the above, plus develop critical thinking and speaking skills. - Addressing Learning Diversity
To cater for learning diversity, each level provides two sub-levels: easy and challenging. - High Quality Sources
Materials are drawn from reputed sources including the BBC, National Geographic Channel and Thomson Reuters. - Major Current Affairs Highlighted
EB incorporates newsworthy global current affairs to heighten students’ general knowledge. - Lesson Plans for Teachers
For easy use, the text, questions, answer key, & points to note are set out in each lesson plan. - Archive for Students & Teachers
A rich selection of easily accessible, useful materials will be archived. - Assessment for Reinforced Learning
EB provides the tools for formative assessment and skills analysis in each lesson, and summative assessment each month.
WHAT IS IT?
ENG is our language-across-curriculum series that uses multimedia content from National Geographic.
About ENG
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
ENG provides three key components:
- Classroom: Students’ Workbooks, Teacher’s Guides, Videos and Audio.
- Self-Learning: Interactive online programme involving listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Assessment: Assessment for listening skills.
Learning Goals
ENG Listening
- Expose learners to a broad range of authentic listening experiences.
- Cultivate interest with engaging National Geographic audio and videos.
- Develop relevant listening skills through diverse and practical tasks.
ENG Speaking
- Develop the ability to present information and feelings clearly and coherently.
- Participate effectively in oral interactions using targeted speaking strategies.
- Practise speaking skills through engaging written materials, audio, and videos.
ENG Reading
- Enhance reading skills for effective information retrieval and critical thinking.
- Enrich knowledge and enhance language proficiency through diverse texts.
- Broaden perspectives and foster a love for reading with National Geographic materials.
ENG Writing
- Apply a process-writing approach to explore and refine writing techniques.
- Practise strategic writing using inspiration from National Geographic videos and texts.
- Enhance awareness of writing choices and their impact on communication.
Benefits for Learners
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Benefits for Educators
Time-Saving Resources
Provides comprehensive teaching materials to save valuable preparation time.
Skill and Perspective Development
Promotes learners’ language skills and global perspectives with rich multimedia content from National Geographic.
Real-World Connections
Engages learners with self-learning online activities that connect English learning to real-world contexts.
Academic Achievement
Strengthens HKDSE skills to help learners achieve exam success.
Comprehensive Module Components
Each module includes:
- Reading & Writing Workbook with access codes for individual online practise tasks.
- Listening & Speaking Workbook with access codes for individual online practise tasks.
- educator’s Guides with page-by-page support, teaching notes, answer keys, tip boxes, idea boxes, and audio/video scripts.
- Audio and Videos to enhance listening and speaking activities.
- Additional Assessments for listening to track learner progress effectively.
WHAT IS IT?
SD2 is an English skills development programme designed to help students achieve success in the HKDSE exam.
About SD2
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
SD2 is designed to help students succeed in the HKDSE English language exam. Our curriculum team analysed HKCEE past papers from the last ten years and recent HKDSE papers to compile the most accurate, up-to-date content, and identify the skills that students need for success in the HKDSE.
Learning Goals
- Familiarise with the latest HKDSE question types and formats.
- Master the required seven skills for the HKDSE English language exam.
- Apply effective strategies and strong test-taking skills to hone confidence.
Benefits for Learners
Test-taking success comes from effective preparation and earned confidence. SD2 ensures effective preparation by incorporating local and global issues featured in HKDSE exams. Learners also get to learn and apply specific tactics to each question type, exam strategies to maximize scores, and study skills to make efficient use of time.
Familiarity promotes confidence. Confidence is earned through our programme by practising all the question types, text types, and language patterns used in the HKDSE format.
Everyone approaches test-taking differently, with different strengths and weaknesses. We provide an individual learning track so learners can learn at their own pace and in their own time. We also enable them to benchmark their results against other learners.
Benefits for Educators
- Progress Tracking
Provides assessments after each skill to help track learners’ learning progress effectively. - Comprehensive Resource Packs
educators’ resource packs include strategies and tips to enhance classroom teaching and learning. - Skill Development and Exam Strategies
Allows learners to practise English language skills and apply specific tactics to different question types. - Performance Benchmarking
Enables learners to compare their results with peers for better insight into their progress.
WHAT IS IT?
Fun and Friends is our interactive English learning and language-enrichment platform for primary learners.
ABOUT Fun and Friends
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Please kindly vist our link below for more information:
http://fnf.wiseman.com.hk.cn/bj
Fun and Friends is an interactive online English-language programme for primary students that is aligned to the Hong Kong English language curriculum. The programme is developed by experts and educators from Stanford, Harvard and Oxford, and uses international award-winning animations. Fun and Friends offers over 800 interactive lessons specifically developed to improve children’s listening, speaking, vocabulary, reading and usage skills.
Learning Goals
- Learn English by viewing, listening to, and engaging with videos and stories that use authentic language and scenarios.
- Improve exam results with lesson plans aligned to the Hong Kong English language curriculum.
- Nurture good morals by illustrating values through animations, stories, and videos.
Benefits for Learners
Fun and Friends is fun, engaging and motivating! Children explore and immerse themselves in a world of authentic English through a think-along and play-along learning experience using award-winning animations.
Fun and Friends enhances and reinforces children’s English language skills in a positive environment that helps them to build world knowledge, learn about good morals and gain self-confidence whilst they play. It helps them to get ahead!
Benefits for Educators
- Proven Results
Research from HKIED and Harvard shows that children using Fun and Friends improved their English examination scores by 4-10% within six months. - Interactive Learning Tools
Provides educators with engaging resources, including videos, songs, interactive exercises, games, and stories. - Reinforces Learning Through Play
Children learn effectively while enjoying fun, play-based activities, making studying feel effortless and enjoyable.
WHAT IS IT?
Fun and Friends Book Club is our interactive e-reading programme for emerging young readers.
ABOUT Fun and Friends Book Club
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Please kindly vist our link below for more information:
http://fnf.wiseman.cn/bj
Fun and Friends Book Club provides a set of fun, interactive readers that develop and enhance your child’s English-language skills from reading and listening, to speaking and storytelling!
Learning Goals
- Develop English skills through active participation in stories.
- Cultivate world knowledge, good morals, and self-confidence.
- Reinforce enjoyable learning through authentic videos, songs, and games.
- Nurture a positive English reading habit by tailoring material.
Benefits for Learners
Reading is essential for building strong foundations in learning English as a second language, and the Fun and Friends Book Club makes this journey enjoyable and enriching. By engaging with curriculum-aligned stories and interactive resources, young learners develop their English skills, illuminate their imagination, and spark their curiosity about the world. Stories help children relate to their surroundings, understand diverse perspectives, and foster empathy, cultivating strong morals and character. Fun and Friends Book Club lets learners gain confidence, broaden their word knowledge, and nurture a lifelong love for reading—a light that guides them on their journey of growth and discovery.
Benefits for Educators
- Extensive Library of Titles
Features over 200 titles across 7 levels, aligned with the local Primary 1 to 6 English-language curriculum. - Curriculum-Driven Content
Themes, language functions, and vocabulary are tailored to meet curriculum requirements. - Variety of Text Types
Features fiction and non-fiction readers, including conversations, narratives, video scripts, and informational articles. - Flipped Classroom Resources
Provides tools and activities to support flipped classroom teaching for enhanced engagement.
WHAT IS IT?
FAST is our adaptive reading scale that measures and matches readers with approachable texts to build skills, gain confidence, and promote enjoyable reading.
ABOUT FAST
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Matching text difficulty and reader ability using FAST measures enables the selection of appropriate texts for “targeted” reading experiences. Readers are sufficiently challenged without being frustrated, resulting in a rewarding learning experience.
Learning Goals
- Build vocabulary and comprehension skills through level-appropriate reading materials.
- Develop reading confidence by engaging with texts tailored to individual abilities.
- Track progress effectively with personalized benchmarks aligned to curriculum standards.
Benefits for Learners
FAST enables learners to gauge their reading ability and tailor the level of reading material suitable for them. Learners can tailor their learning journey by choosing approachable, engaging texts to build vocabulary, develop reading confidence, and improve comprehension.
Benefits for Educators
- Meeting Diverse Needs
FAST allows educators to address individual learner needs by selecting texts matched to their reading levels. - Personalized Progress Tracking
educators can measure learners’ progress using individualized benchmarks tailored to their abilities. - Curriculum Alignment
FAST ensures progress is aligned with curriculum standards, supporting structured and goal-oriented learning.
WHAT IS IT?
DSE** is our personalized HKDSE English Reading skills development program.
ABOUT DSE**
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
DSE** provides 10 sets of relevant topical Reading HKDSE practices. Each specific practice exam aims to hone students’ exam skills by using up-to-date HKDSEE question formats, text types and DSE content.
- Bring you relevant and current local and global issues that you may find the HKDSE examination.
- Premium Licensed content from The Economists, Reuters, BBC, National Geographic Channel and other authentic sources
Learning Goals
- Practise HKDSE English skills by tackling different question types and text types.
- Connect with relevant local and global issues featured in the HKDSE.
- Enhance test-taking confidence by applying HKDSE scoring tips and strategies.
Benefits for Learners
DSE** incorporates premium licensed content from The Economist, Reuters, BBC, National Geographic Channel, and other authentic sources to bring learners the most topical content and engaging scenarios.
With A.I. Level-Up Indicator, DSE** provides an error rate for each question, scoring tips, and score prediction. Learners can benchmark their results and predicted outcomes on the HKDSE examination to set personal targets and progress goals.
Benefits for Educators
- Automated Performance Analysis
Offers automated tools to analyze student performance and project grades efficiently - Progress Tracking
Enables teachers to monitor student progress with real-time class, form, and skill reports. - Comprehensive Resource Packs
Provides resource packs for each paper, including detailed question explanations and teaching tips to enhance classroom learning.
WHAT IS IT?
Wiseman Classics is our language-rich reader series inspired by timeless stories and iconic characters.
ABOUT Wiseman Classics
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Reading a great classic story is like going on an exciting adventure. It opens up your imagination, sparks curiosity and brings you joy. Wiseman Classics is by your side along this adventure.
Learning Goals
- Develop critical thinking
- Encourage free expression and creativity
- Deepen understanding of positive values and attitudes
- Nurture empathy and positive attitudes towards life
- Promote learning-by-doing in authentic situations
Benefits for Learners
Classic stories teach learners how to be better people, empathise with others and enrich our lives and characters with values. They also give learners the opportunity to understand history and culture in context. We believe that learning is a lifelong journey and that whenever learners read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. We hope these books will stay with them for life.
Benefits for Educators
- Curriculum-Aligned Resources
Blended online readers and print books are aligned with the EDB English Language Curriculum Guide to support effective teaching. - Comprehensive Teaching Materials
Features learning resources, worksheets, and multimedia tools to enhance reading and writing skills. - Flexible Learning Options
Supports classroom teaching and extended after-school learning with printed books, e-books, and teaching resources. - Automated Progress Monitoring
Weekly class reports are automatically sent to educators, simplifying the process of tracking learner progress.
WHAT IS IT?
ADD is our school-based HKDSE English Reading practise platform.
ABOUT Wiseman Classics
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Reading a great classic story is like going on an exciting adventure. It opens up your imagination, sparks curiosity and brings you joy. Wiseman Classics is by your side along this adventure.
Learning Goals
- Maximize test-prep efficiency with class-wide auto-marking and instant feedback.
- Motivate learner preparation with goal-setting, progress-tracking, and score-prediction functions.
- Master exam-style language skills by practicing from our database of past papers.
Benefits for Learners
ADD contains a comprehensive database of HKDSE English Reading past papers where learners can practise and receive a personalised evaluation and score prediction.
Benefits for Educators
- Instant Progress Tracking
Provides automated tools to track learner progress and evaluate score distribution across the entire class. - Efficient Data Organization
Features a streamlined interface to help educators organise learner data effectively. - Informed Teaching Decisions
Supports educators in making data-driven decisions to enhance teaching outcomes.
WHAT IS IT?
Language Out Loud (LOL) is our non-profit learning initiative that shares research-based language arts practises to enhance school English programs
ABOUT Wiseman Classics
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Reading a great classic story is like going on an exciting adventure. It opens up your imagination, sparks curiosity and brings you joy. Wiseman Classics is by your side along this adventure.
Learning Goals
- Practise respect and collaboration in language-based activities.
- Play with the target language with a creative urge and without fear of judgment.
- Discover new connections between the learner, material, and each other.
- Grow from our experience, reflect on the growth, and share our change!
Language Out Loud(LOL) website: https://lol.thinkseries.org/
WHAT IS IT?
Online Writing Lab (O.W.L) is our AI-guided writing assessment platform.
ABOUT Wiseman Classics
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Reading a great classic story is like going on an exciting adventure. It opens up your imagination, sparks curiosity and brings you joy. Wiseman Classics is by your side along this adventure.
Learning Goals
- Maximise learning efficiency with instant feedback
- Motivate growth with score predictions and personalised commentary.
- Master good writing habits with tailored practise suggestions.
Benefits for Learners
Personal attention and tailored guidance are important but time-expensive resources for learners’ growth and mastery. O.W.L. tools customize suggestions, commentary, and practise exercises based on each learner’s work. Our refined optical character recognition (OCR) technology converts photos of learner work to digital text, allowing learners to practise handwritten exercises like those on the HKDSE while benefiting from the digital analysis tools on our O.W.L platform.
Benefits for Educators
- Save Time on Essay Marking
Automated tools reduce grading time, allowing educators to focus on more meaningful tasks. - Ensure Consistent and Fair Grading
Provides unified scoring criteria to eliminate inconsistencies in essay evaluation. - Track Learner Trends and Progress
Generates detailed reports with high-quality data to help educators understand learning trends and common mistakes. - Optimised Image-to-Text Capability
OCR technology allows learners to upload handwritten work and convert it to digital text with high accuracy and low latency. - Offer Targeted Guidance
Supports educators in providing specific feedback, personalised follow-up, and tailored exercises to address individual needs.
WHAT IS IT?
Speaktime is our personalised learning platform that targets HKDSE speaking skills.
ABOUT Wiseman Classics
Learning Goals
Benefits for Learners
Benefits for Educators
Reading a great classic story is like going on an exciting adventure. It opens up your imagination, sparks curiosity and brings you joy. Wiseman Classics is by your side along this adventure.
Learning Goals
- Build confidence in speaking with personalised AI buddies tailored to skill levels.
- Improve HKDSE performance with interactive, exam-aligned content.
- Develop real-world communication skills through dynamic practise modes.
- Refine speaking skills with detailed feedback and progress tracking.
- Enjoy engaging, level-appropriate speaking practise to boost fluency.
Benefits for Learners
SpeakTime helps learners build confidence and improve their speaking skills with personalised AI buddies that adapt to their ability levels, speaking pace, and vocabulary needs. Featuring HKDSE-aligned content and real-world scenarios, it offers engaging practise through interactive lessons and dynamic speaking modes. Learners receive detailed feedback and progress tracking, empowering them to refine their skills and approach speaking challenges with clarity and confidence.
Benefits for Educators
- Time-Saving Tools
Provides personalised teaching aids and automated progress tracking to save educators’ preparation time. - Customised Learning Experiences
Adapts to learners’ abilities with level-sensitive features and personalised AI buddies designed for HKDSE preparation. - Comprehensive Skill Enhancement
Offers over 300 interactive lessons, practise modes, real-world communication scenarios, and HKDSE-aligned content to optimise speaking skills. - Learner Progress Monitoring
Includes detailed performance analysis, personalised recommendations, and progress reports for efficient tracking of learner improvement. - Flexible practise Modes
Supports diverse classroom needs with rotation and free-flow speaking modes, suitable for various learner learning styles and SEN-friendly environments.
STEAM fields are Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. It is designed to integrate STEAM subjects into various relevant education disciplines. Wiseman is a professional STEAM education company, integration of school curriculum, learning and teaching program and teacher training. It provides schools with innovative and effective teaching products or other scientific and technological education services. It encourages students to work on logical thinking, and the initiative in learning different knowledge. Wiseman plays a major role in STEAM for different school projects. Please kindly vist our link below for more information: http://steam.wiseman.cn
Hong Kong’s [Small Robot Man], the company applied MakeBlock and Artificial Intelligence (AI), onto STEM classes for primary and secondary schools. The technologies have included: IOT applications, AI language recognition somatosensory control, groups interaction, multi-threaded programming, circular programming / PYTHON, etc. These can be embedded into competitions in the future so that students can learn, collaborate and apply through games.
mBot
- connect to 100+ electronic modules
- over 500 ports
- compatible with LEGO bricks
- establish a preliminary understanding of robots
Main subject, Mathematics [FAST ™], Shanghai has won the world’s top score in PISA. Mathematics teaching is highly recognized. Wiseman has customized Mathematics teaching according to different requirements of key schools in order to build up individual confidence. In accordance with the national compulsory education curriculum, FAST scientifically builds the sequence of students’ ability development, provides personalized performance evaluation, instantly reflects teaching effectiveness, provides specific suggestions for improvement, and improves the level of learning and teaching.
Shanghai’s [Hairy Crab Farm], a bio-environmental innovation project with the theme of crabs and vegetables. The hairy crab-vegetative project draws on the cultivation experience of fish-vegetative symbiosis, but also combines Shanghai’s local characteristics to make innovations. For students, observing hairy crabs closely and cultivating hairy crabs is not only an interesting practical experience, but also a scientific experiment.
[Hairy Crab Farm], the STEAM project (Science, Technology, and Mathematics learning areas) uses an open and flexible curriculum structure, which mainly includes i) scientific knowledge and scientific process skills, which are displayed with learning goals and learning objectives; ii) common skills; iii) values and attitudes. This project won the first prize of the 2019 national project-based learning exhibition evaluation and research project.
In a century-old school’s [Time Gallery], the project is aimed at good performance in Science, Technology, and Mathematics, but mainly focus on theory learning; some students lack of “hands-on” learning activities. Therefore, the customized curriculum combines the subjects of Programming, Science, History, Chinese and English, and exerts the educational function and thinking training process of different areas, penetrates together, promotes the overall development of students, designs and draws up specific and creative solutions. To enhance their ability to integrate and apply interdisciplinary knowledge and skills.
Huacao’s [Fish and Vegetable Symbiosis]. Huacao school has a long history of establishing a school. Before the last century, Huacao was originally established near the Suzhou River. The Regional Education Bureau hopes to preserve the historical heritage across the century. “Yucaijia” has become the characteristics of Huacao’s STEAM course, and also a symbolic project for a centennial school.
Urban farming is to turn the roof of the building into a farm. In big cities such as London, Paris, New York, Singapore and Tokyo, urban farming has been developed for a long time, which can also ease the heat island effect. STEAM education project aims to train students to become lifelong learners of Science, Technology and Mathematics and help them cope with the challenges of the 21st century; from a macro perspective, it aims to cultivate diverse talents with different knowledge and skills, improve the international competitiveness of the region and help the development of the country.
