This innovation responded to student and teacher requests for access to authentic and relatable content developed by young people. Discussions in schools about racism, prejudice and its impact and the way it plays out online is poorly addressed by many existing resource. Teachers have reported richer and deeper discussions when using PROJECT ROCKIT PLUS.
Schools subscribe to the platform that houses videos and a whole suite of discussion activities. These are organised into playlists such as "consent", "body image" or "online abuse". Teachers and school communities are able to copy links to the content and share them across the school community - students, teachers and parents without anyone needing a login. Schools report using the resources in diverse ways - as part of peer mentoring programs, classroom discussions, within health and wellbeing currciulm, embedded into school LMS, sharing with parents after parent teacher conferences and even sharing videos on image-based abuse after instances have occurred in the school to build understanding and empathy around these issues for the whole school community.
PROJECT ROCKIT PLUS is shared with schools that undertake PROJECT ROCKIT face to face workshops, but more importantly, it is provided to regional, remote and low socio-economic schools who otherwise don't have access to our youth-led workshops. In this way, the innovation of the product is being able to get youth voices on issues into schools that otherwise would struggle to get access to these. This is important, because teachers report that getting students to talk openly about these issues is difficult, without the video resources seeing other young people start the conversation. PROJECT ROCKIT PLUS makes that process easier and the conversations more authentic and deeper.
Visit https://www.projectrockit.com.au/pr-plus/ to sign up
