Digital Media: Role Models and Troll Models

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• communication
• digital literacy
• empathy

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

English, Year 7

Students learn to:

• Understand how language expresses and creates personal and social identities. (AC9E7LA01)
• Explain the effect of current technology on reading, creating and responding to texts including media texts. (AC9E7LY01)

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

NSW Curriculum outcomes:

• EN4-RVL-01 - Uses a range of personal, creative and critical strategies to read texts that are complex in their ideas and construction.
• EN4-URA-01 - Analyses how meaning is created through the use of and response to language forms, features and structures.
• EN4-URB-0 - Examines and explains how texts represent ideas, experiences and values.

Cross-curriculum priority:  Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 7 achievement standards: With different purposes and for audiences, students discuss, express and expand ideas with evidence. They read, view and comprehend texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences. They identify how ideas are portrayed and how texts are influenced by contexts.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate group discussion, sharing on the board, and support/challenge continuum task.

UN SDG Goal 5: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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

• A copy of the student worksheet for each student
• Student worksheet projected onto the board
• Whiteboard markers.

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.