What’s your brand?
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Target audience
Level
Lower secondary
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Type of resource
PDF slide deck, Lesson plan
Timeframe
40 minutes
Australian curriculum
Key learning areas
General capabilities
Topic: What’s your brand?
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Australian Curriculum outcomes
Australian Curriculum links
This presentation will address Australian Curriculum Health and Physical Education and Digital Technologies outcomes including:
- Evaluate factors that shape identities and critically analyse how individuals impact (ACPPS089).
- Investigate the impact of transition and change on identities (ACPPS070).
- Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others’ health and wellbeing (ACPPS074).
- Reflect on their role as a citizen in Australia’s democracy (ACHCS074).
It addresses elements of the Personal and Social General Capabilities including self-awareness and self-management and addresses elements of the Ethical Understanding General Capabilities including exploring values, rights and responsibilities.
Social media changes are coming
From 10 December 2025, certain social media platforms won’t be allowed to let Australians under 16 create or keep an account. Under-16s will still be able to see publicly available social media content that doesn’t require logging into an account.
What you need to know:
- Educators need to be aware that age restrictions may apply to platforms they currently use for educational purposes and to communicate with their school community.
- The age restrictions are likely to apply to Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X and YouTube, as well as other platforms. See the latest list.
- Find out more about the exclusions for educational tools such as learning management systems.
- Schools may need to explore alternative methods for communicating with parents and students.
- For further guidance, including if educators will be able to use their own accounts to share age-appropriate education materials, please refer to school or education sector policies and procedures.
Find out more at eSafety’s social media age restrictions hub.