Videos for Change empowers young people from Years 7-12 to become agents of social change. It is a real world, student-led, project-based learning experience in which students create one-minute videos to raise awareness of social issues they feel passionate about.
Through this activity, students can develop the critical global competencies needed to be active, responsible and engaged citizens. These include: collaboration, creative thinking, critical thinking, civic engagement, communication and collective action.
Videos for Change can be delivered as a unit of work or used as an assessment item across multiple subject areas. It can be aligned with the Australian Curriculum of English, HASS and Media or embedded as part of a wellbeing program.
The below PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded separately and include:
- Full teaching notes to minimise preparation time and optimise the student experience;
- Embedded videos to support the learning and inspire students;
- Links to additional resources to further support students;
- Promotional Videos for Change resources to engage students, teachers, parents and community.
Participants in Videos for Change can also enter the national Videos for Change competition which can amplify students’ voice to a global audience. The 2020 competition will open for submissions in June.
If you would like to attend a professional development workshop, or find out more about facilitated online learning for your class, click here.
"As a high school student, truly making a difference can often seem like an impossible task. At least that was my belief until my teacher told me about Videos for Change; an opportunity to express my passions and beliefs through a one-minute social change film"
(Student from Videos for Change 2017)
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Problem Tree
Use this handout to help teams to focus on one or two causes or effects of their chosen social issue or problem. Ask them to brainstorm the causes of the social issue and write them in the roots of the tree - they help the problem to grow. Then brainstorm the effects of the social issue and write them in the branches of the tree. This brainstorm is a great way to start a conversation about the effectiveness of addressing the effects of a problem versus the causes and will help to make sure that their video has a clear message and does not overwhelm their audience.
PowerPoint Resources
This PowerPoint Guide provides a summary of each section of the PowerPoint presentation with suggested presentation times and required resources.
You can download individual presentations below, or access all seven sections in one presentation here. Please note the file size of the combined PowerPoint is 358MB.
PowerPoint 1: Introduction (95.41MB)
PowerPoint 2: Choosing a social issue (92.44MB)
PowerPoint 3: Getting started (27.78MB)
PowerPoint 4: Planning your video (56.83MB)
PowerPoint 5: Creating your video (26.97MB)
PowerPoint 6: Editing your video (29.17MB)
PowerPoint 7: Sharing your video (1.71MB)
Help spread the word about Videos for Change and encourage entries at your school or organisation! Download the presentation below (1.3 MB) for your school assembly, leader group or year group: we've even included a sample script in the Presenter Notes to save you time. Drop us a line to tell us how you go and if you have any ideas of how we can help make this better or easier for you! Download and print the posters to put up around your school.
Who has created the resources for Videos for Change?
Videos for Change is a special initiative developed by High Resolves, a recognised leader in the design and delivery of learning experiences in citizenship and leadership. Click here to find out more about the broad range of programs and resources we offer.
High Resolves’ learning experiences are transformational because they draw on proven design principles from learning science, behavioural economics, social psychology, and neuroscience. Based on our 10+ years experience in the field, we have found that achieving mastery of global competencies must involve peak experiences that shift student’s thoughts and feelings about the world. These shifts must then be hardwired into long-term memory through repeated practice and application in the real world. Videos for Change is our signature real world application exercise.
We want this opportunity to be available to all teenagers, and to have a diverse representation of the voice of young people across the world. That’s why Videos for Change is completely free to enter.
Videos for Change is aligned with several subjects in the National Curriculum, and provides an exciting avenue to explicitly address the General Capabilities:
For schools seeking further support, we also offer professionally-facilitated Videos for Change workshops that we deliver in schools, and professional development training for teachers interested in running Videos for Change with their students.
This year we will also be offering schools the opportunity to run their own local Videos for Change challenge with their own personal digital platform. Please contact us for more information or to see how we can help you embed this powerful opportunity into your school.
Our Partners
Videos for Change is a special initiative developed by High Resolves, a recognised leader in the design and delivery of citizenship and education learning experiences and is proudly sponsored by Network 10 and Platypus.
