DIGITAL Literacy STAFF RESOURCES
what is digital literacy?
Digital literacy involves knowing how to use a range of technologies to find information, solve problems or complete tasks.
Digital literacy is also about knowing how to act safely and respectfully online.
It is important that all children and young people in Australia learn to become ‘digitally literate’ in a safe and supportive environment, engaging with the materials, data, systems, tools and equipment that are available in their schools and communities.
Digital literacy is also about knowing how to act safely and respectfully online.
It is important that all children and young people in Australia learn to become ‘digitally literate’ in a safe and supportive environment, engaging with the materials, data, systems, tools and equipment that are available in their schools and communities.
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National Geographic Primary Resource
We are currently working to bring specifically tailored curriculum resource links for our other territories; including South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
If you have any queries about our upcoming curriculum resource links, please email: [email protected]
You’ll need to sign up to access their primary resources. Registering is quick, easy and free!
We are currently working to bring specifically tailored curriculum resource links for our other territories; including South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
If you have any queries about our upcoming curriculum resource links, please email: [email protected]
You’ll need to sign up to access their primary resources. Registering is quick, easy and free!
ABC Splash
Use hundreds of learning resources that link directly to the Australian Curriculum.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Filmmaking with students is a powerful teaching and learning experience - and lots of fun! Student filmmaking is now possible at all levels and across the curriculum with the availability of user-friendly digital cameras and editing software. This guide is designed to help classroom teachers get started with student film projects. It is applicable to both animation and live action productions, with separate technical guides as required.
Australian Curriculum History Units
AC History Units presents 8 units developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia to support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: History
AC Maths videos via Click Youtube Channel
NSW CLIC's YouTube Channel. The New South Wales Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre works closely with regions to support teachers in their implementation of the curriculum, leveraging research and innovation to enrich teaching and learning.
Asia Education Resource Bank for the Australian Curriculum
Australian Curriculum Lessons
Australian Curriculum Lessons is a site designed for educators in Australia. They are a user-submitted site who depend on teachers to post their great lessons so that other teachers can get ideas and lessons to use in the classroom.
Australian Curriculum Sharing Space Wiki
This is a wiki that will enable sharing and support as we start to implement the Australian Curriculum.
Australian National Curriculum Resources Wiki
Capthat English Resources
cap that! is an initiative of Media Access Australia, proudly sponsored by the Australian Communication Exchange. cap that! is a national awareness campaign encouraging teachers to simply turn oncaptions in the classroom for learning and literacy for all students. They also provide resources, including lesson plan examples, how-to videos and further information about captions for use all year round.
Creating Digital Multimodal Texts
With the introduction of the Australian Curriculum, there is an emphasis on the use of Multimodal Text in English. ICT offers a great range of tools to allow students to create digital multimodal texts, such as comics, animations, digital storytelling, video & audio, ebooks, poster & cover design and game design . A blog post giving links.
Creating Multimodal texts
This website is designed as an evolving compilation of resources to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions to demonstrate the rich variety of choices available, along with practical resources to support text production.
Digital Storytelling Livebinder by Jdowlo
Differentiation and explicit teaching in English
TeachingACEnglish is a rich, practical and contemporary professional resource to support teachers and school leaders implementing the Australian Curriculum: English from Foundation to year 10.
This collection of video snapshots – or vignettes – illustrates ideas, approaches and strategies for teaching, learning and assessment.
The vignettes demonstrate approaches to differentiation and aspects of explicit teaching about a select group of content descriptions for reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Eight Aboriginal Ways of Learning Wiki
This Aboriginal pedagogy framework is expressed as eight interconnected pedagogies involving narrative-driven learning, visualised learning processes, hands-on/reflective techniques, use of symbols/metaphors, land-based learning, indirect/synergistic logic, modelled/scaffolded genre mastery, and connectedness to community. But these can change in different settings.
English Curriculum links on symbaloo
Links to Australian/NSW reources for the new English Curriculum.
English Curriculum NSW links via Steph Westwood's weebly CNPS
English Curriculum links from Sue Dowling (Smore poster)
English for the Australian Curriculum
This resource is a national initiative to support the teaching and learning of English and literacy from Foundation to Year 10, produced in partnership with Education Services Australia and the joint associations of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association and the Primary English Teaching Association Australia, representing more than 10,000 teachers of English.
English K-10 suggested texts for the syllabus
Suggested texts for the English K–10 Syllabus is a compilation of quality reading and
viewing for students in Kindergarten to Year 10. It combines the classics and
successful teaching texts with innovative recent works. It includes fiction as well as
nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, media and multimedia texts.
Exploring composing K-6 through the NSW English K-10 syllabus
The English K-10 syllabus has identified the key processes of responding to and composing
texts as central to students using language purposefully and meaningfully and engaging with a
wide range of texts.
Through responding to and composing texts from Kindergarten to Year 10, students learn
about the power, value and art of the English language for communication, knowledge and
enjoyment. By composing and responding with imagination, feeling, logic and conviction,
students develop understanding of themselves and of the human experience and culture.
English K-10 syllabus (2012) Board of Studies, NSW
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
Schools across Australia are responsible for implementation of the Australian Curriculum. Each state and territory is developing its own implementation plan, along with support programs for teachers.
While the process of implementing the Australian Curriculum is a matter for each state and territory, ACARA will assist through provision of materials about the intent of the Australian Curriculum and by facilitating any activity that would benefit from national coordination.
Global Education across the curriculum
Teacher resources to encourage a global perspective across the curriculum.
Literacy Continuum
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that have been collected over 10 years by a primary school teacher. The sheds are broadly thematic but sometimes a resource could go in 2 or more sheds.
Maths Faculty
Looking for a good quality resource for maths teaching?
MathsFaculty is for finding resources from other teachers and for sharing resources that you have created.
Maths Links
MathsLinks is a directory of 700+ useful objects found on the web for teaching Maths, with a focus on Australian curriculum. This site aims to not only collate the best maths activities on the web, but present them in a meaningful way.
National Geographic
National Library of Australia - Trove
Find and get over 355,229,676 Australian and online resources:
books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more
NOW Literacies - Everyday classrooms reading, viewing and creating multimodal texts.
A video with Dr Jon Callow, Lecturer, English Education K–6 (The University of Sydney) talking about multimodal texts.
NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum
Download, filter or search the NSW K–10 English, Mathematics, Science (incorporating Science and Technology K–6) and History syllabuses. View by stage or subject, use the hyperlinked glossaries, and filter by learning across the curriculum content.
Program Builder for the NSW Syllabus
Designed by the Board of Studies NSW exclusively for primary and secondary teachers in New South Wales, Program Builder is a programming tool that uses content from the new NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum to create scope and sequences and units. NSW teachers are able to access Program Builder using their Department of Education and Communities (DEC) or Scootle login details.
Scan - Online Journal for Educators
Scan reviews eresources, websites and other learning and teaching resources in the context of the curriculum. Reviews indicate user level, curriculum connections, resource type by icon and SCIS numbers.
Scope and Sequence of grammar and punctuation skills K–6
The following scope and sequence of grammar and punctuation framework indicates those understandings and terms which students might be expected to have control of by the end of each stage. It is arranged according to levels of text organisation: from the broad text level to specifics of word level grammar. It indicates the stage at which key concepts should be introduced. Concepts addressed in earlier stages should be reviewed and consolidated according to student needs and syllabus requirements.
Scope and sequence of phonological and graphological processing skills K–6
The following scope and sequence indicates the stage at which key phonological, graphological, graphophonic, spelling, handwriting and digital text production skills should be introduced. Skills addressed in earlier stages should be reviewed and consolidated according to student needs and syllabus requirements.
Scootle
Learn, teach and collaborateusing digital resources to support the Australian Curriculum.
Syllabus Bites: Creating digital and multimodal texts
Use this resource to create digital and multimodal texts - such as animations, cartoons, digital stories, film, video, audio and web pages.
Teaching Comprehension Strategies
The super six comprehension strategies. Comprehension involves responding to, interpreting, analysing and evaluating texts.
(NSW Department of Education and Training Literacy Continuum)
tes Australia
TES Australia lets members download and share user-generated resources free of charge.
Text Requirements for the English Syllabus collated by Gayle Pinn
http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/Teachers/Australian%20Curriculum%20suggestions%20%20including%20titles%20to%20March%202013.pdf
Using digital and multimodal texts K-6 through the NSW English K-10 syllabus
The new English K-10 syllabus has mandated that in EACH YEAR, students MUST study
examples of media, multimedia and digital texts which are appropriate to their needs,
interests and abilities, examples which become increasingly sophisticated as students move
from Kindergarten to Year 6. This resource is designed to provide teachers with a range of
resources and strategies to teach media, multimedia and digital texts from Early Stage 1 to
Stage 3.
Thanks to Angie Taylor for sharing
Use hundreds of learning resources that link directly to the Australian Curriculum.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Filmmaking with students is a powerful teaching and learning experience - and lots of fun! Student filmmaking is now possible at all levels and across the curriculum with the availability of user-friendly digital cameras and editing software. This guide is designed to help classroom teachers get started with student film projects. It is applicable to both animation and live action productions, with separate technical guides as required.
Australian Curriculum History Units
AC History Units presents 8 units developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia to support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: History
AC Maths videos via Click Youtube Channel
NSW CLIC's YouTube Channel. The New South Wales Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre works closely with regions to support teachers in their implementation of the curriculum, leveraging research and innovation to enrich teaching and learning.
Asia Education Resource Bank for the Australian Curriculum
Australian Curriculum Lessons
Australian Curriculum Lessons is a site designed for educators in Australia. They are a user-submitted site who depend on teachers to post their great lessons so that other teachers can get ideas and lessons to use in the classroom.
Australian Curriculum Sharing Space Wiki
This is a wiki that will enable sharing and support as we start to implement the Australian Curriculum.
Australian National Curriculum Resources Wiki
Capthat English Resources
cap that! is an initiative of Media Access Australia, proudly sponsored by the Australian Communication Exchange. cap that! is a national awareness campaign encouraging teachers to simply turn oncaptions in the classroom for learning and literacy for all students. They also provide resources, including lesson plan examples, how-to videos and further information about captions for use all year round.
Creating Digital Multimodal Texts
With the introduction of the Australian Curriculum, there is an emphasis on the use of Multimodal Text in English. ICT offers a great range of tools to allow students to create digital multimodal texts, such as comics, animations, digital storytelling, video & audio, ebooks, poster & cover design and game design . A blog post giving links.
Creating Multimodal texts
This website is designed as an evolving compilation of resources to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions to demonstrate the rich variety of choices available, along with practical resources to support text production.
Digital Storytelling Livebinder by Jdowlo
Differentiation and explicit teaching in English
TeachingACEnglish is a rich, practical and contemporary professional resource to support teachers and school leaders implementing the Australian Curriculum: English from Foundation to year 10.
This collection of video snapshots – or vignettes – illustrates ideas, approaches and strategies for teaching, learning and assessment.
The vignettes demonstrate approaches to differentiation and aspects of explicit teaching about a select group of content descriptions for reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Eight Aboriginal Ways of Learning Wiki
This Aboriginal pedagogy framework is expressed as eight interconnected pedagogies involving narrative-driven learning, visualised learning processes, hands-on/reflective techniques, use of symbols/metaphors, land-based learning, indirect/synergistic logic, modelled/scaffolded genre mastery, and connectedness to community. But these can change in different settings.
English Curriculum links on symbaloo
Links to Australian/NSW reources for the new English Curriculum.
English Curriculum NSW links via Steph Westwood's weebly CNPS
English Curriculum links from Sue Dowling (Smore poster)
English for the Australian Curriculum
This resource is a national initiative to support the teaching and learning of English and literacy from Foundation to Year 10, produced in partnership with Education Services Australia and the joint associations of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association and the Primary English Teaching Association Australia, representing more than 10,000 teachers of English.
English K-10 suggested texts for the syllabus
Suggested texts for the English K–10 Syllabus is a compilation of quality reading and
viewing for students in Kindergarten to Year 10. It combines the classics and
successful teaching texts with innovative recent works. It includes fiction as well as
nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, media and multimedia texts.
Exploring composing K-6 through the NSW English K-10 syllabus
The English K-10 syllabus has identified the key processes of responding to and composing
texts as central to students using language purposefully and meaningfully and engaging with a
wide range of texts.
Through responding to and composing texts from Kindergarten to Year 10, students learn
about the power, value and art of the English language for communication, knowledge and
enjoyment. By composing and responding with imagination, feeling, logic and conviction,
students develop understanding of themselves and of the human experience and culture.
English K-10 syllabus (2012) Board of Studies, NSW
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
Schools across Australia are responsible for implementation of the Australian Curriculum. Each state and territory is developing its own implementation plan, along with support programs for teachers.
While the process of implementing the Australian Curriculum is a matter for each state and territory, ACARA will assist through provision of materials about the intent of the Australian Curriculum and by facilitating any activity that would benefit from national coordination.
Global Education across the curriculum
Teacher resources to encourage a global perspective across the curriculum.
Literacy Continuum
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that have been collected over 10 years by a primary school teacher. The sheds are broadly thematic but sometimes a resource could go in 2 or more sheds.
Maths Faculty
Looking for a good quality resource for maths teaching?
MathsFaculty is for finding resources from other teachers and for sharing resources that you have created.
Maths Links
MathsLinks is a directory of 700+ useful objects found on the web for teaching Maths, with a focus on Australian curriculum. This site aims to not only collate the best maths activities on the web, but present them in a meaningful way.
National Geographic
National Library of Australia - Trove
Find and get over 355,229,676 Australian and online resources:
books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more
NOW Literacies - Everyday classrooms reading, viewing and creating multimodal texts.
A video with Dr Jon Callow, Lecturer, English Education K–6 (The University of Sydney) talking about multimodal texts.
NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum
Download, filter or search the NSW K–10 English, Mathematics, Science (incorporating Science and Technology K–6) and History syllabuses. View by stage or subject, use the hyperlinked glossaries, and filter by learning across the curriculum content.
Program Builder for the NSW Syllabus
Designed by the Board of Studies NSW exclusively for primary and secondary teachers in New South Wales, Program Builder is a programming tool that uses content from the new NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum to create scope and sequences and units. NSW teachers are able to access Program Builder using their Department of Education and Communities (DEC) or Scootle login details.
Scan - Online Journal for Educators
Scan reviews eresources, websites and other learning and teaching resources in the context of the curriculum. Reviews indicate user level, curriculum connections, resource type by icon and SCIS numbers.
Scope and Sequence of grammar and punctuation skills K–6
The following scope and sequence of grammar and punctuation framework indicates those understandings and terms which students might be expected to have control of by the end of each stage. It is arranged according to levels of text organisation: from the broad text level to specifics of word level grammar. It indicates the stage at which key concepts should be introduced. Concepts addressed in earlier stages should be reviewed and consolidated according to student needs and syllabus requirements.
Scope and sequence of phonological and graphological processing skills K–6
The following scope and sequence indicates the stage at which key phonological, graphological, graphophonic, spelling, handwriting and digital text production skills should be introduced. Skills addressed in earlier stages should be reviewed and consolidated according to student needs and syllabus requirements.
Scootle
Learn, teach and collaborateusing digital resources to support the Australian Curriculum.
Syllabus Bites: Creating digital and multimodal texts
Use this resource to create digital and multimodal texts - such as animations, cartoons, digital stories, film, video, audio and web pages.
Teaching Comprehension Strategies
The super six comprehension strategies. Comprehension involves responding to, interpreting, analysing and evaluating texts.
(NSW Department of Education and Training Literacy Continuum)
tes Australia
TES Australia lets members download and share user-generated resources free of charge.
Text Requirements for the English Syllabus collated by Gayle Pinn
http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/Teachers/Australian%20Curriculum%20suggestions%20%20including%20titles%20to%20March%202013.pdf
Using digital and multimodal texts K-6 through the NSW English K-10 syllabus
The new English K-10 syllabus has mandated that in EACH YEAR, students MUST study
examples of media, multimedia and digital texts which are appropriate to their needs,
interests and abilities, examples which become increasingly sophisticated as students move
from Kindergarten to Year 6. This resource is designed to provide teachers with a range of
resources and strategies to teach media, multimedia and digital texts from Early Stage 1 to
Stage 3.
Thanks to Angie Taylor for sharing