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News media literacy challenges and opportunities for Australian school students and teachers in the age of platforms

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posted on 2023-05-20, 23:25 authored by Jocelyn NettlefoldJocelyn Nettlefold, Kathleen WilliamsKathleen Williams
News media literacy competencies and motivation in teachers are critical to media education initiatives. This article draws on a survey of 97 primary and secondary school teachers conducted as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and University of Tasmania’s national Media Literacy Project in 2018. The data reveals challenges in the implementation of media literacy in classrooms, highlighting a generational divide linked to Australians’ rising consumption of news from digital sources and social media platforms. While teachers overwhelmingly say critical thinking about media is very important for students, nearly a quarter of these teachers are not engaging with news stories in the classroom. The data suggests responses require new resources, a review of teacher training, curriculum support, wider community collaboration and further research in the field.

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Publication title

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Volume

13

Pagination

28-40

ISSN

2167-8715

Department/School

School of Creative Arts and Media

Publisher

National Association for Media Literacy Education

Place of publication

USA

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Copyright: © 2021 Author(s). This is an open access, peer-reviewed article published by Bepress and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.) License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in education; Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture

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