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Digital Licence

Alannah & Madeline Foundation

The eSmart Digital Licence program equips learners with the essential skills and knowledge to navigate the digital world safely and responsibly.

  • Online

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Government funded; Approved elsewhere: eSafety

Product type: Program; Posters; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Activity sheets; Student activities; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

Alannah & Madeline Foundation
ABN: 96 514 115 810

https://be.esmart.org.au/

esmart@amf.org.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Self-esteem and body image

  • Respectful relationships and consent education

  • E-safety and digital literacy

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

  • English

  • Technologies

  • Humanities and Social Science

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1)

Communities: Neurodiversity or disability

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

The eSmart Digital Licence program is a comprehensive suite of educator-led lessons for learners aged 4 to 12 years. These resources have been co-designed with over 800 primary school students and their teachers to ensure they are classroom ready and appropriate.

The program is adaptable to a range of education settings (including offline delivery) and offers all the resources needed to build essential digital and media literacy skills. Each resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum and is scalable to student need with check-in points and extension options in every lesson plan.

The Digital Licence program consists of four core lessons and two optional introduction and conclusion sessions. It is recommended to complete these sessions over the course of one school term, but it can be condensed or spread out as required. Educators can take students through the Digital Licence OR do ad-hoc single lesson plans from the portal.

Educators follow five steps in achieving a Digital Licence for students:

  1. Prepare your materials
  2. Run the introduction session
  3. Run four lessons in your own time - one from each online safety risk area
  4. Complete the evaluation to obtain Licence templates
  5. Run the conclusion session and award the Licences

All resources have been reviewed by the Centre for Accessibility Australia and designed to be inclusive of low ADII (Australian Digital Inclusion Index) with offline options for all resources.

Implementation support

  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

The program aligns with multiple educational standards, including

  • the Australian Curriculum (version 9),
  • the My Time, Our Place framework for School-aged Care, and
  • the CASEL Framework for social and emotional wellbeing.

It is designed to integrate smoothly into a variety of subjects such as English, Drama, Health and Physical Education, Digital Technologies, and General Capabilities. Detailed information on curriculum alignment can be found in the 'Aligned Curriculum' section of the program's lesson plans.

Evaluation conducted by ACER 2024-2025.