Keeping Safe Online: CIRA and MediaSmarts release latest Cyber Security tip sheet

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 20 Sep 2012.

CIRA and MediaSmarts have partnered on a series of five tip sheets to educate Canadians about online security issues. The 5th tip sheet in the series, Socializing and Interacting Online, looks at negative issues that can come up when interacting with others through networked technologies including phishing scams and hoaxes, and strategies for dealing with them.

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Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile

MediaSmarts and CIRA release cyber security tip sheet for online commerce

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 18 Jun 2012.

MediaSmarts has partnered with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) to develop the Online Commerce Cyber Security Consumer Tip Sheet – the fourth in a series of tip sheets on cyber security issues.

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Cyber Security, Internet & Mobile, Marketing & Consumerism, Online Marketing

That’s Not Me: Addressing diversity in media

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 02 Apr 2012.

Teachers who include media literacy in their classrooms often face issues that don’t arise in other subjects. Nothing illustrates this better than the issue of diversity in media. It’s not unreasonable for teachers to see the topic as a can of worms and be concerned about offending students and their parents – not to mention worrying about what the students themselves might say. At the same time, it’s a topic that is simply too important to be ignored: what we see in media hugely influences how we see others, ourselves and the world. As a result, an ability to analyze media depictions of diversity is not only a key element of being media literate, it’s essential to understanding many of the social issues and concerns that we face as citizens. That’s why Media Awareness Network has developed That’s Not Me – a new online tutorial for professional development to help educators and community leaders approach this issue through key concepts of media literacy.

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Indigenous, Diversity in Media, Internet & Mobile, Movies, Parents, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQ+ Representation, Religion, Resources, Stereotyping, Television, Visible Minorities

Teaching the Net Generation: Teachers' Perspectives in Young Canadians in a Wired World

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 15 Feb 2012.

In the early months of 2011, the eyes of the world were on the Middle East, watching as the governments of Egypt, Tunisia and other autocratic regimes buckled under the pressure of democratic protest. Among those watching were a group of elementary students in northern Canada, who were able to watch a live Twitter feed of the protestors and other citizens of the region reporting what was happening. Despite their geographical isolation, these students were connected to events happening halfway around the world, thanks to the efforts of their teacher to bring digital media into the classroom.

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Internet & Mobile, Professional Development, Resources

Changing the World, Online and Off

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 04 Nov 2011.

The classic 1985 science fiction novel Ender’s Game is one of several books of that period that foresaw both the advent of the Internet and its eventual importance in society. While certain aspects of its portrayal seem dated – in particular, it more resembles the text-based bulletin board systems of the time than today’s graphic Web – one element stands out as being particularly prescient: the use of the Internet to allow youth to participate fully in society. While today’s young people aren’t using the Internet to take over the world, as the characters in the novel do, they are increasingly using it to change the world, and more and more teachers are using the Internet to bring civic engagement into the classroom.

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