My Connected Life

Submitted by Guest Blogger on 05 Nov 2015.

In today’s day and age, social media is everywhere. If you own a smartphone or computer of any sort, odds are you have at least one social media account and checking it is a part of your everyday routine. In high school, you’re constantly surrounded by social media! Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, high school life nowadays revolves around these three entities. It’s a great way to connect with friends, make plans, help spread information if you’re in a school club or sport, and it can even help you meet new people. Although there are many great things social media can offer, there can be a couple downsides too.

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Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Internet & Mobile, Online Ethics, Social Networking, Video Games

Use, Understand & Create: Towards a Comprehensive Canadian Digital Literacy Curriculum

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 31 Mar 2015.

Whether it’s to prepare for the future job market or just to manage the lives they already lead online, young Canadians need to be digitally literate. But what exactly is digital literacy, and how can we ensure that all Canadian youth are learning the digital skills they need?

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Authenticating Information, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Internet & Mobile, Online Ethics, Resources

What parents need to know about Instagram

Submitted by Andrea Tomkins on 16 Oct 2014.

Canadian teens love to socialize online, and they especially love to share photos.

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Digital Citizenship, Parents, Social Networking

How Young Canadians Get Their Online Media

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 01 Oct 2014.

TV, music and movies have been a central part of young people’s lives for generations, and the Internet has only intensified that by delivering all of those directly to our homes – legally and illegally.

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Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Intellectual Property, Internet & Mobile, Young Canadians In A Wired World

Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 29 May 2014.

There’s a long-standing relationship between sex and the Internet. As far as back the 1980s, Usenet and local bulletin board systems were used to share pornographic text files and crude (in both senses) graphics, and people have been using digital media to form and carry out online relationships at least as long. However, just as estimates of how much online traffic and content is made up of sexual material tend to be exaggerated[1], our new report – Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age – from MediaSmarts’ Young Canadians in a Wired World survey of 5,436 students, shows that for Canadian youth, sexuality and romantic relationships play a fairly small part of their online lives.

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Cell Phones and Texting, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Pornography, Social Networking

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