Key message
A teacher uses social media platforms as a means of engaging students in a year 7 geography unit about Antarctica.
AITSL offers teachers resources to guide them in using digital resources to extend their teaching practice. This is an example of using social media to motivate and engage students in a Stage 4 HSIE class.
Curriculum and syllabus links
NSW Syllabus outcomes
English S4
- EN4-1A Responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure
- EN4-2A Effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies
- EN4-3B Uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
- EN4-5C Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts
- EN4-6C Identifies and explains connections between and among texts
- EN4-7D Demonstrates understanding of how texts can express aspects of their broadening world and their relationships within it
Geography S4
- GEE4-4 Describes the interactions and connections between people, places and environments that impact on sustainability
- GEE4-6 Discusses perspectives of people and organisations on a range of geographical issues
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
English S4
- ACELA1528 Understand the way language evolves to reflect a changing world, particularly in response to the use of new technology for presenting texts and communicating
- ACELA1782 Understand how language is used to evaluate texts and how evaluations about a text can be substantiated by reference to the text and other sources
- ACELT1619 Identify and explore ideas and viewpoints about events, issues and characters represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts
- ACELY1765 Analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts
- ACELY1721 Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
- ACELY1723 Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources
- ACELY1724 Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences
- ACELY1765 Analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts
- ACELY1721 Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
- ACELY1723 Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources
- ACELY1724 Compare the text structures and language features of multimodal texts, explaining how they combine to influence audiences
- ACELY1765 Analyse and explain the effect of technological innovations on texts, particularly media texts
- ACELY1721 Analyse and explain the ways text structures and language features shape meaning and vary according to audience and purpose
- ACELA1548 Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning
- ACELT1626 Explore the ways that ideas and viewpoints in literary texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts may reflect or challenge the values of individuals and groups.
- ACELT1628 Understand and explain how combinations of words and images in texts are used to represent particular groups in society, and how texts position readers in relation to those groups
- ACELT1807 Recognise and explain differing viewpoints about the world, cultures, individual people and concerns represented in texts
- ACELT1630 Identify and evaluate devices that create tone, for example humour, wordplay, innuendo and parody in poetry, humorous prose, drama or visual texts
- ACELT1768 Experiment with particular language features drawn from different types of texts, including combinations of language and visual choices to create new texts
- ACELY1729 Analyse and explain how language has evolved over time and how technology and the media have influenced language use and forms of communication
- ACELY1732 Analyse and evaluate the ways that text structures and language features vary according to the purpose of the text and the ways that referenced sources add authority to a text
- ACELY1733 Apply increasing knowledge of vocabulary, text structures and language features to understand the content of texts
- ACELY1734 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on the validity of content and the credibility of sources, including finding evidence in the text for the author’s point of view
- ACELY1735 Explore and explain the ways authors combine different modes and media in creating texts, and the impact of these choices on the viewer/listener
- ACELY1736 Create imaginative, informative and persuasive texts that raise issues, report events and advance opinions, using deliberate language and textual choices, and including digital elements as appropriate
Geography S4
- ACHGS047 Develop geographically significant questions and plan an inquiry, using appropriate geographical methodologies and concepts
- ACHGS048 Evaluate sources for their reliability and usefulness and select, collect and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from appropriate primary and secondary sources
- ACHGS053 Present findings, arguments and ideas in a range of communication forms selected to suit a particular audience and purpose; using geographical terminology and digital technologies as appropriate
- ACHGS054 Reflect on their learning to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social considerations, and predict the expected outcomes of their proposal
- ACHGK052 Ways of protecting significant landscapes