Every time we scan an advertisement we have our ‘bias detectors’ engaged, another ‘history’ skill. This is true of all our subjects, though. The trick is to find a way to link the specialised subject skills to contexts where their function has a relevancy in the world around us.

So how might we do this? ICT has provided us teachers with a tool where we can harness content, ideas, examples, case studies, etc., to our needs. We will investigate examples of how these tools can support our teaching in the following tutorials and subsequent units.