Digital Media: What Are You Saying?

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

• communication
• digital literacy
• empathy
• ethical understanding

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 8, English

• Analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text. (AC9E8LY03)
• Recognise how language shapes relationships and roles. (AC9E8LA01)
• Understand how layers of meaning can be created when evaluating by using literary devices such as simile and metapho.r (AC9E8LA02)

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

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 8 achievement standards: With different purposes and for audiences, students discuss, express and elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence. They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice. They explain how text structures shape meaning. They explain the effects of language features including intertextual references and literary devices, and visual features.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – introduce key context, lead students through texts, organise groups and facilitate discussion and presentations.

UN SDG Goal 5: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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

• Device capable of projecting onto the board
• Individual student devices to create a presentation
• Student worksheet (1 per 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.