中外项目学习对促进学生创新能力培养的启示——中澳学生基于远程视频的多模态纪录片制作实践

Implications of Sino-foreign Project-based Learning on the Promotion of Students' Creativity——The Practice of Multimodal Documentary Making between Chinese and Australian Students via Video-conferencing

远程视频为外语学习创建真实的交际环境,也为中外高校开展合作研讨提供极大的便利。文章以中澳学生基于远程视频开展的项目学习为例,探讨两校学生以可持续发展为题,以纪录片多模态制作为项目成果的实践,在增进问题与研究意识、体验信息的多模态交际、提升实现课程目标的能力和促进中外合作学习方面,对培养学生创新能力所起的积极作用。

Video-conferencing technology helps to create an authentic communicative environment for learning a foreign language,and has been very efficient for initiating projects between Chinese and overseas universities,such as cooperative teaching and research forums.This article reports on a project-based learning experience in which Chinese and Australian university students used video-conferencing,and discusses the multimodal documentary on’sustainability’produced by students of the two universities,to see to what extent project-based,technology-aided learning experiences helped promote the cultivation of students’creativity,especially in the fields of enquiry and probing,while experiencing multimodal communication,and realizing the goal set up in the course and in promoting cooperative learning between Chinese and Australian students.