MediaSmarts Tags - Online Hate

This interactive module for Grades 7 and 8 is designed to increase students’ ability to recognize bias, prejudice and hate propaganda on the Internet and in other media. 

Level: Grades 10-12

Duration: 2 to 3 hours

Author: Jeff Gagnon, Media Education Specialist, MediaSmarts

Overview

As was noted in the introduction, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Digital Hate and Terrorism project has identified over 14,000 problematic websites, forums, blogs, and social media postings. [1]

Ever since Cronus the Titan tried to swallow his son Zeus, parents have feared being supplanted by their children. (It didn't take.) But it's only in the last few generations, as the rate of technological progress has accelerated, that children have grown up in a world significantly different from the one their parents knew, and it's only very recently that parents have seen their surpass them while they were still in the single digits.

e-Tutorials for parents, teachers and anyone interested in media issues affecting youth. These free online tutorials cover a wide-range of topics including managing Internet use in the home, diversity representation and online hate.

Level: Grades 10-12

Author: Jeff Gagnon, Media Education Specialist, MediaSmarts

Overview

In this lesson students learn about the inherent tension within democratic societies between freedom of expression and freedom from hatred. They also learn how Canada has addressed these issues within the Criminal Code of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Someone encountering the Internet for the first time might be forgiven for assuming it was created specifically for teenagers. Indeed, the Internet could reasonably be said to have been aging backwards since its birth – the domain first of scientists and the military, then of university students in the 1990s and now children and teenagers.

Level: Grades 8-10

Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

Duration: 3-4 hours

Overview

Level: Grades 8-10

Duration: 2-3 hours

Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

Overview