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Amanda Levido
@amandalevido.bsky.social
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Media literacy researcher
Lecturer at Southern Cross University
AI at Digital Child
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amandalevido.bsky.social
t’s such a privilege to share media literacy education practice and research with teachers. You can watch past webinars:

⁉️Digital literacy and critical thinking in English

🛝Early years media literacy

#medialiteracy #medialiteracyeducation
July 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
amandalevido.bsky.social
If you were interested in these Children and the Media prompt cards, you can now download them from doi.org/10.25918/mis...

They are designed to use with children aged 6-10, but they could be used with older children and young people as well.
amandalevido.bsky.social Amanda Levido @amandalevido.bsky.social · Jan 8
The 2025 work year is off to a great start ✨

I picked up these Children and the Media prompt cards from the printer today and love how they turned out 🤩 Designed to stimulate conversations about media and technology with children aged 6-10 years.

#medialiteracy #medialiteracyeducation
June 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
amandalevido.bsky.social
How can we support media literacy education in primary school classrooms? My children’s book ‘Max makes a movie’ seeks to help children and teachers learn about the filmmaking process.

doi.org/10.25918/fic...

#medialiteracyeducation #medialiteracy
June 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
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🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪

Here @amandalevido.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social, @dezuanni.bsky.social & Woods report on a study, designed to raise understandings of how to teach children about algorithmic practices through practice-based workshops.

Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2ucyf7na
ABSTRACT Children in current times are likely to encounter algorithms, particularly recommendation systems, as part of their everyday media experiences. In this paper we consider children’s use of algorithms from a media literacy perspective, namely through curatorship practices. We detail a pilot workshop where children had opportunities to develop understandings and critically reflect on algorithms through non-digital media production. Children engaged in the process of curation through a series of activities where they took photos and then curated these images in a variety of ways. The activity provided opportunities for the children to critically reflect on algorithms, specifically recommendation systems, in ways that moved them beyond experience. One part of the pilot was to consider the inter-relations evident between digital and more traditional texts, materials and resources and the opportunities afforded when diverse materials and tools are brought together in the one event. The pilot explored different activities to help participants consider how algorithms are part of, and impact, their everyday literacy and media practices.
June 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
digitalchildau.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the winners of our Stories by Digital Children competition!

Thank you to all children who submitted entries for Series 2 from across the country and congratulations to our winners.

digitalchild.org.au/young-voices...
Young voices take the lead in getting the balance right with digital technologies!   - Digital Child
Empowering young minds to think critically and creatively about their digital identity
digitalchild.org.au
June 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
amandalevido.bsky.social
Thrilled to share this article co- authored with @aleeshajoy.bsky.social @dezuanni.bsky.social and Annette Woods. In this article we discuss using curation and media production activities as a methodology to explore understandings of algorithms with children.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy
Children in current times are likely to encounter algorithms, particularly recommendation systems, as part of their everyday media experiences. In this paper we consider children’s use of algorithm...
www.tandfonline.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
digitalchildau.bsky.social
Digital media are now an everyday part of most children’s lives for entertainment, learning, and communication.

Tammy White and Michael Dezuanni discuss media literacy for children in the context of early years education in our latest blog post.

digitalchild.org.au/the-everyday...
The everyday use of media literacy in early childhood education - Digital Child
children should have opportunities to develop their media literacy knowledge and skills, from an early age.
digitalchild.org.au
March 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
digitalchildau.bsky.social
We can't wait to delve into submissions for our Stories by Digital Children competition.

The deadline for entries is fast approaching (next week!), make sure your child's entry is in by 28 February!
digitalchildau.bsky.social Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · Feb 5
📱We're calling for children to submit their ideas for stories inspired by the theme "Getting the balance right: You decide what you share"

📖 Competition winners will create a published version of their story!

⭐ Entries close 28 February

digitalchild.org.au/stories-by-d...
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
digitalchildau.bsky.social
Looking for a brief overview of Roblox? Our latest, open access publication provides a snapshot of the popular gaming platform.

Read the review here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

@dezuanni.bsky.social @tamaleaver.bsky.social @amandalevido.bsky.social
ROBLOX: A Rapid Analysis - Digital Child
digitalchild.org.au
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
amandalevido.bsky.social
The 2025 work year is off to a great start ✨

I picked up these Children and the Media prompt cards from the printer today and love how they turned out 🤩 Designed to stimulate conversations about media and technology with children aged 6-10 years.

#medialiteracy #medialiteracyeducation
January 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reposted by Amanda Levido
tamaleaver.bsky.social
Folks from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social are slowly turning up here, so here's a smallish starter pack for now, but as new folks from the Centre arrive, ping me & I can add you:

go.bsky.app/8RES29o
December 6, 2024 at 5:20 AM
amandalevido.bsky.social
So incredibly frustrating to see this bill pass, although unsurprising given the cursory attempt (if you can call it that) that went into understanding the anything about this issue.
Live: Senate debates social media ban for under 16s
So far, 31 government bills have passed the Senate, with the social media ban the last item of business. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM
amandalevido.bsky.social
Banning children and young people from social media is not an appropriate solution and will likely bring a whole new range of problems. See our submission in response to the proposed social media ban below.
@tamaleaver.bsky.social @dezuanni.bsky.social @aleeshajoy.bsky.social
tamaleaver.bsky.social Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Nov 22
It's been really heartening working with @dezuanni.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social and Amanda Levido to produce the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child's response to the Social Media Ban for Under16s Bill that was tabled yesterday.

digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...
Responding to the Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 Social Media Minimum Age 140 Experts say banning people under 16 from social media won't make social media safe children have a right to be online and have fun, positive, educational, and safe experiences. We should be enabling Australian children and teens to be full, articulate, deeply literate digital citizens.
November 22, 2024 at 3:25 AM