ACARA’S new Media Literacy Resource

ACARA’s new media literacy resource for teachers 

Ensuring Australian students develop a greater understanding of the modern media landscape in a digitally connected world is at the heart of a new media literacy teaching resource recently released by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). 
 
Working in partnership with key media literacy experts, ACARA have developed the new Curriculum connection: Media consumers and creators to support our teachers to make sure all students are engaged in developing media literacy knowledge and skills across Foundation to Year 10, specifically in Media Arts, English and Digital Technologies. 
 
“Whether it’s a news story, a television show, an online video or a social media post, our young people need to learn how to sort fact from fiction and work out whether something is credible or not,” said ACARA CEO, Stephen Gniel.  
 
“We need to ensure students can develop the critical and analytical thinking needed to contend with an ever-evolving digital media landscape. As the recent Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters report into civics education and political participation highlighted, this is crucially important if we want our young people to be active and informed citizens.