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  • Literacy, Digital Literacy or Media Literacy?

    Submitted by Guest Blogger on 28 Feb 2014.

    Emerging ideas and trends in the space of new literacies are indeed fluid and, through discussion, seem to always be in a state of constant flux. As teachers and learners engage with online content and media, strategies and pedagogies bounce between conventional and contemporary approaches. This ongoing conversation and discovery is representative of the media landscape itself - always shifting - suggesting that our strategies and approaches should be charged with being able to adapt and grow. A tall order indeed, so how do we build capacity that makes room for convention, innovation and redefinition in literacy?

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  • Putting together the online privacy puzzle: a parent’s perspective

    Submitted by Andrea Tomkins on 20 Feb 2014.

    When I was growing up, the issue of privacy was limited to eavesdropping on phone calls and making sure the key to my diary was well hidden. As a parent raising kids in a media age, the word has taken on a whole new meaning. I think that as a family of active netizens, it’s imperative that we - and our kids - understand the issues surrounding online privacy.

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  • Online Privacy, Online Publicity: Youth do more to protect their reputation than their information

    Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 20 Feb 2014.

    Do young people care about privacy? Participants in MediaSmarts’ 2012 focus groups told us that they valued their privacy highly, despite being enthusiastic participants in platforms and activities that adults see as being about nothing but sharing and broadcasting. Looking at the findings from our Young Canadians in a Wired World survey of more than five thousand students from every province and territory in Canada, we can begin to understand that contradiction: young people may not care that much about what we think of as privacy, but they care very much about control – control over who can see what they post, over who can track them digitally and, most especially, over how other people see them.

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  • Creating a better Internet together on Safer Internet Day 2014

    Submitted by MediaSmarts on 11 Feb 2014.

    February 11 is Safer Internet Day (#SID2014), an annual international event organized by InSafe to help promote safer and more responsible use of online technologies, especially by young people.

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  • What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Rogue Sites and Online Risk

    Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 10 Feb 2014.

    For parents of teens and tweens, the Internet can sometimes seem like nothing more than an ever-expanding list of websites to keep up on: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat and so on, with new ones appearing every few months. While the safety risks associated with these mainstream sites are often exaggerated – and it’s more effective to build broader critical thinking skills than to focus on the particulars of kids’ latest favourite sites – there are some websites that present very real and specific risks and that parents are much less likely to know about. These are the so-called “rogue websites” that offer unapproved access to copyrighted content such as music, movies and video games.

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    Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Intellectual Property, Internet & Mobile
  • Upcoming Webinar: Keeping our kids safe online, hosted by MediaSmarts and TELUS

    Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 05 Feb 2014.

    To mark Safer Internet Day on February 11, we’ll be joining TELUS in a live webinar discussion of our Young Canadians in a Wired World research. Focusing on our first report, Life Online, our Director of Education, Matthew Johnson, will look at how the online behaviors and attitudes of young Canadians have changed over the past 10 years and what we can do to help keep our kids safe online.

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