The Australian Media Literacy Alliance advocates for lifelong media literacy opportunities for all Australians.
Oct 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
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#medialiteracy1. 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
Oct 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
