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 

The learning goals of EB are to:

  • develop English language skills
  • broaden students’ 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 a new series developed to help students learn and use English across the curriculum, using multimedia content from National Geographic.

About ENG

Learning Goals

Benefits for Learners

Benefits for Educators

ENG provides three key components:

  1. Classroom: Students’ Workbooks, Teacher’s Guides, Videos and Audio.
  2. Self-Learning: Interactive online programme involving listening, speaking, reading and writing.
  3. Assessment: Assessment for listening skills.

Learning Goals

ENG Listening is designed to expose learners to a broad range of listening experiences and to make use of a wide selection of authentic listening materials. National Geographic audio and videos are provided to draw learners’ attention and build their confidence with relevant listening tasks.

ENG Speaking provides a wide range of activities that help learners to develop the ability to present information and feeling clearly and coherently, as well as to participate effectively in oral interactions. Learners acquire a range of speaking skills and strategies through responding to written materials, audio and videos.

ENG Reading boosts learners’ reading skills to seek information effectively, develop thinking skills, enrich knowledge, enhance language proficiency and broaden perspectives. Fascinating texts and visual materials from National Geographic are included to motivate learners to read for pleasure.

ENG Writing employs a process-writing approach that focuses on learners exploring and being aware of what they do, and the choices they make when writing. Intriguing information from National Geographic videos and various text types are used to stimulate learners to write strategically.

Benefits for Learners

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Benefits for Educators

is designed to save teachers’ valuable time and help students:

  • DEVELOP language skills and global perspectives (with rich multimedia content from National Geographic)
  • CONNECT to the real world (with self-learning online activities)
  • ACHIEVE academic success (strengthening HKDSE skills)
    MODULES
    Each Module
  • Reading & Writing Workbook (with access code for individual online practice tasks)
  • Listening & Speaking Workbook (with access code for individual online practice taks)
  • Teacher’s Guides (with page-by-page support, teaching notes, answer keys, tip boxes and idea boxes, audio and video scripts)
  • Audio and Videos
  • Additional Assessment for Listening

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

1. Develop the required seven skills for the HKDSE English language exam.

2. Become familiar with the latest HKDSE question types and formats.

3. Apply effective strategies and strong test-taking skills to future exams.

Benefits for Learners

SD2 incorporates local and global issues that are similar to those in the exam, thereby ensuring efficient use of time. Students practise a variety of English language skills, including applying specific tactics to different question types.

It also provides an individual learning track so students can learn at their own pace and in their own time, and also enables them to benchmark their results against other students.

Benefits for Educators

SD2 provides an assessment after each skill to track students’ learning progress. The teachers’ resource packs for each skill include strategies and tips for classroom teaching and learning.

WHAT IS IT?

Fun and Friends is an interactive online English language programme that uses award-winning animations, stories and videos to engage and motivate children to learn English.

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

1. Learn, understand and use English through viewing, listening to, and engaging with videos and stories that use authentic English.

2. Improve results in examinations through lesson plans aligned to the Hong Kong English language curriculum.

3. Nurture good morals through leveraging the messages used in 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

Educators using Fun and Friends can provide their learners with interactive learning tools that are proven to improve results. Researchers from HKIED and Harvard found that children using Fun and Friends increased their English examination scores by 4-10% after six months of usage. Fun and Friends applies and reinforces learning through videos, songs, interactive exercises, games and stories. Children will be having so much fun “playing” they won’t realise they are also studying and learning!

WHAT IS IT?

Fun and Friends Book Club is an enriching e-reading programme that is aligned with the curriculum to build good English-language skills, cultivate morals and provide an introductory platform to world knowledge. Our Programme is designed for children to learn by active participation.

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

1. Improve various English skills through reading.

2. Tailored to address learner diversity.

3. Build world knowledge, good morals and self confidence.

4. Reinforce learning through authentic videos, songs, interactive exercises and learning games.

5. Nurture English reading habit.

Benefits for Learners

Reading is a fun and engaging experience! Reading plays a very important role in learning a second language and it helps young learners to build the basic foundations for learning English. Reading opens up the imagination and creates new possibilities. Stories help our children to relate to and understand the world around us. Reading also teaches us to empathise with others and enhances our character. Through reading, our children will discover the light that comes with us on life‛s journey.

Benefits for Educators

Includes over 200 titles across 7 levels! These are aligned with the local Primary 1 to 6 English-language curriculum in terms of themes, language functions and vocabulary. A collection of fiction and non-fiction readers have also been specially developed using different text types such as conversation, narratives, video scripts, informational articles, etc. Flipped classroom resources are also provided to support classroom teaching and activities. These are excellent tools for maximising teaching and learning benefits.

WHAT IS IT?

FAST – Reading is a scale that measures reading level based on semantic and syntactic parameters. It correlates to Lexile which is adopted by many publishers and public examination agencies.

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

1. Learn, understand and use English through viewing, listening to, and engaging with videos and stories that use authentic English.

2. Improve results in examinations through lesson plans aligned to the Hong Kong English language curriculum.

3. Nurture good morals through leveraging the messages used in award-winning animations and texts.

Benefits for Learners

FAST enables students to gauge their ability, and determine the level of reading material suitable for them. Through choosing appropriate texts, students will build their vocabulary and improve their reading and comprehension skills.

Benefits for Educators

By using FAST, teachers can feel confident that they are meeting the diverse needs of individual students by selecting texts of the right level. FAST also enables teachers to measure students’ progress in comparison to the standard.

WHAT IS IT?

DSE** is an effective online HKDSE skills development programme, specifically designed to help students succeed in the Reading sections of the HKDSE English Language Examination.

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 various English skills by tackling different question types and text types.
  • Become familiar with current local and global issues that may appear in the HKDSE.
  • Apply effective and strong skills to HKDSE by studying the scoring tips.

Benefits for Learners

DSE** incorporates premium licensed content from The Economist, Reuters, BBC, National Geographic Channel and other authentic sources to bring students the most topical content.

With A.I. Level Up Indicator, DSE** provides error rate for each-question, scoring tips and score prediction. Students can set personal targets and benchmark their results against those of other students in Hong Kong, with reference to the score they will obtain on the HKDSE examination.

Benefits for Educators

DSE** provides automated performance analysis and grade projection for teachers. Teachers can also keep track of students’ progress with real-time class report, form report and skill report. The teachers’ resource packs for each paper include detailed question explanation and tips for classroom teaching and learning.

WHAT IS IT?

Wiseman Classics is an interactive and language-rich book series where you can enjoy a variety of inspiring classic stories. This set of readers is designed to help you to become better readers whilst improving your vocabulary, language and critical thinking 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

  • 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

Wiseman Classics provides blended online readers and print books aligned with the EDB English Language Curriculum Guide, with learning resources/worksheets to facilitate effective reading and writing with multi-media support. It also caters for classroom teaching and extended after-school learning, with printed books, e-books and Teaching Resources available. Weekly class reports are sent automatically to teachers for easy monitoring.

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.

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