Aligning with the Australian curriculum’s year 7 and 8 bands, the Dust Echoes resource links strongly to the content descriptor (ACAMAR072), where students look to “identify specific features and purposes of media artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints and enrich their media arts making, starting with Australian media artworks including of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media artworks” (ACARA, 2010). This resource encourages students to “[analyse] the role of media artworks and media artists in transmitting cultural information and creating awareness of contemporary issues” (ACARA, 2010), consider how media artworks are perceived in different contexts, and challenge themselves to learn of ethical media practices (ACARA, 2010). Through learning from this resource, students will be well-positioned to gain new intercultural understandings and improve their personal and social capabilities.

This resource provides teachers with a space to utilise inquiry-based pedagogies to encourage students to challenge their understandings and form newly educated viewpoints on indigenous cultures. Incorporating this resource content into the curriculum will support the actions towards diverse inclusivity. A selection of dreamtime stories could be selected to focus on across a few lessons, or the FUSE provides activities could be expanded into a larger project where students engage with multiple stories to create a refined media product based on their learnings.