A primary English teacher wants to use ICT to encourage collaboration. Which…

An ICT use counts as encouraging collaboration only when it structurally requires several learners to work on one shared task together — communicating, sharing material, or jointly producing a single output — rather than each learner engaging with the content or being assessed separately.

Here, students are asked to use an online platform to carry out a group project. Such a platform functions as one shared workspace that several students access together while completing the project, which is exactly the structural requirement above.

• Individual quizzes through ICT: each student attempts and is scored on their own, with no shared task.

• Video lectures: content flows one way, from the recording to each viewer, with no requirement for viewers to interact with one another.

• Reading assignments with e-books: each student works through the assigned pages independently, at their own pace.