Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Global Issues 12: Citizenship and Sustainability

Citizenship

Overall Expectations

Students acquire the knowledge, understanding and competencies necessary to live as active democratic citizens engaged in their local, national and global communities.

MediaSmarts Resources

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias and Crime in Media

Bias in News Sources

Celebrities and World Issues

Challenging Hate Online

Crime in the News

Cyberbullying and the Law

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Free Speech and the Internet

How to Analyze the News

Making Media for Democratic Citizenship

Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate

Suffragettes and Iron Ladies

The Citizen Reporter

The Front Page

Watching the Elections

You Be the Editor

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Area of Inquiry: Media

Overall Expectations

Inquiry questions related to media issues may include the following:

How does media influence, affect, and control us?
How has this influence changed through time?
Do media create or reflect our world?
How free is the press?
What is the relationship between media control, power, and profit?
What is the impact of new and alternative media?
How does media literacy help us to become critical thinkers and responsible citizens?

MediaSmarts Resources

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias

Bias and Crime in Media

Bias in News Sources

Buy Nothing Day

Celebrities and World Issues

Challenging Hate Online

Cinema Cops

Crime in the News

Diversity and Media Ownership

Fact Versus Opinion