We're thrilled to see a number of Australian media literacy resources launched recently to support adults and young people develop their critical media literacy abilities. Here are a few of them... #GlobalMILWeek2022#medialitwk#MediaLiteracyWeek#medialiteracy
1. Squizkids launched NewsHounds this week for primary students. Students develop media literacy over eight podcasts, using a fun board-game style digital learning experience @thesquiznewshounds.squizkids.com.au
2. Media and Me at the National Film and Sound Archive is a facilitated media literacy program for students aged 9-13 that examines storytelling through animation, advertising, gaming, social media, film and music. @NFSAonline nfsa.gov.au/learning/educa…
3. ABC Education’s Media Literacy Website has over 50 resources for high school teachers and students including the popular misinformation interactive Real. Oops. Fake or LOL? @ABCEducationAU abc.net.au/education/medi…
4. The Check The Facts campaign draws on AAP's professional factchecking experience to help adult citizens sort the facts from the fakes. @AapFactcheck aap.com.au/factcheck-reso…
5. Finally, the Museum of Australian Democracy have a bunch of resources to help primary and high school students understand what media literacy is and how they can develop it. @moadlearningmoadoph.gov.au/learning/class…
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We're attending the Critical Thinking & Media Literacy online session w/ Prof Deborah Brown from the Critical Thinking Project at UQ & journalist @PeterGreste Prof Brown says critical thinking training can help people to analyse & evaluate arguments & claims on social media
She says plenty of research showing us that students are struggling to apply critical thinking to their social media use and this makes them vulnerable to misinformation. This research led them to design the MediaAcademy course for Queensland high school students
The course teaches students to write responsible and high quality news stories which are then published in this state online newspaper inqld.com.au