This Global Media and Information Literacy Week is all about the kids

As a news-based classroom literacy resource for Australian teachers and students, Kids News has a real responsibility to help Australia’s youngest citizens become e-Smart Agents.

The nation’s children are growing up alongside an industrial revolution unfolding in real time.

It is a digital universe and AI is also here to stay.

That means that in their formative years, all Australian kids must become active e-Smart Agents in order to develop into informed, lifelong advocates of their own online safety and e-intelligence.

To respond to this clear and present need to equip kids with some of the essential tools they need for safe digital interactions, Kids News has created a special Digital Literacy Education Kit in close collaboration with one of Kids News’ invaluable daily teacher contributors, Courtney Beckwith.

The kit aims to help kids understand some of the major digital media challenges and learn the fundamentals of looking after themselves as they navigate this rapidly changing landscape.

The digital kit is designed for students from Year 3 onwards to learn the fundamentals of looking after their online safety and wellbeing.

The kit comes with an interactive, downloadable PDF workbook of 24 activities, created by Courtney and aligned to the National Curriculum.

The kit content covers:

Part 1: Digital wellbeing

Part 2: Your news filter

Part 3: Deepfakes and AI images

Part 4: Clickbait and engagement traps

Part 5: Algorithms and your feed

Part 6: Influencers and advertising

Part 7: Gaming chats and group DMs

Part 8: Being scam savvy

Part 9: Your data, your rules

Part 10: Reality check during elections

Part 11: Copyright, fair dealing and creative reuse

Part 12: Why Aussie kids need to be e-Smart Agents

Courtney’s workbook is supported by 12 dedicated editorial stories on digital literacy on our Education Kits topic page.

These stories inform the classroom activities and will assist students to answer the questions in the workbook.

The Kids News Digital Literacy Education Kit is FREE to teachers and parents who have sign up to receive the free weekly Kids News newsletter.

A link and a special access code will be sent to subscribers in forthcoming newsletters. Not getting the edm? Sign up free HERE.