Rate My Professor Amanda Levido

Dr Amanda Levido is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University. She holds a PhD from Queensland University of Technology awarded in 2021 for her thesis titled 'The Implementation of Media Arts in Australian Primary Schools.' Her additional qualifications from QUT include a Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI), Bachelor of Education (BEd), and Master of Learning Innovation (MLearnInnov). Levido researches media arts and media literacy education, with a focus on how young children engage with digital media technologies in formal and informal learning environments. She serves as an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Levido has contributed to the implementation of digital play-based programs in early childhood settings and provided consultation on the Media Arts strand of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. Her work emphasizes positioning creative production through digital technologies as a core element of media literacy in the early years, fostering critical understandings of media among children.

Key publications by Levido include 'iPed: Pedagogy for Digital Text Production' co-authored with K.A. Mills in The Reading Teacher (2011), cited 94 times; 'Parent Perspectives of Digital Media for Learning at Home' in Children & Society (2026, with S. Matthews, P. Amery, and E. Cross); 'Developing children's algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy' in Learning, Media and Technology (2025, with A. Rodriguez and M. Dezuanni); 'Media literacy and the concept of 'technologies' in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills' (2024); and the book chapter 'Media Arts Education for Young Adolescents' (2026). She authored the children's fiction book 'Max Makes a Movie' (2025, illustrated by A. Slatem) and developed 'Children and the Media prompt cards' (2025) as part of a media literacy project. Other outputs encompass the 'Newshounds Media Literacy Research Project 2023' report (with T. White) and contributions to ROBLOX analysis (2024). Levido co-authored 'The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children' for The Conversation (2026, with R. Willett and H. Jeong). Her research has accumulated over 150 citations on Google Scholar.