Digital Media: I Have a Voice

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• collaboration
• curiosity
• ethical understanding
• empathy
• communication
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9, English

• Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles. (AC9E9LA01)
• Analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts. (AC9E9LE01)
• Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to represent a perspective of an issue, event, situation, individual or group. (AC9E9LY03)
• Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between texts. (AC9E9LY05).

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding  

NSW Curriculum outcomes:

• EN5-URA-01- Analyses how meaning is created through the use and interpretation of increasingly complex language forms, features and structures.
• EN5-URB-01- Evaluates how texts represent ideas and experiences, and how they can affirm or challenge values and attitudes.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: They analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse the aesthetic qualities of texts. They analyse the effects of text structures, and language features including literary devices, intertextual references and multimodal features.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - teachers need to support students by reading through the articles and modelling how to compare the language choices, as well as facilitate a number of discussions across the lesson.

UN SDG Goal 5: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

1. Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

• Device capable of presenting an ABC radio recording
• Highlighters
• Student devices to complete their own media text
• Student worksheets for each student

Trailblazers is a Savage Films, Milestone Films, and LM Films production by Director/Producers Maggie Miles and Maggie Eudes and Producer Lucy Maclaren.

Trailblazers tells the story of the fight for equality by Australia’s female footballers. It celebrates the rise of Australian women’s football from the early days of paying-to-play in front of small crowds to appearing in sold-out stadiums, watched by over 11 million people at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. 

The Cool.org resources and impact campaign are supported by major partner MECCA M-POWER and driven by Documentary Australia. The Trailblazers campaign aims to build momentum for further progress in gender equality and leadership and to increase investment and opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports.

If Trailblazers has inspired your students to take action, they can #Blaze a Trail for gender equality by take part in campaigns and sharing their commitment with the world. 

Visit www.trailblazersfilm.com.au 

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Create a Culture for Change

Quick summary: This course will introduce you to tools and methods for increasing people’s willingness to participate in change in your classroom, school or organisation. You will learn the basics of behavioural science, shared by international experts, different techniques that can increase people’s adaptability in times of change and how to create a culture where people are more willing to participate in change.