Digital Issues

Digital Issues

Internet and mobile communications technologies offer a wealth of opportunities for fun, learning, and exploration. They also present parents and teachers with a host of concerns and worries. In this section, you can find resources on how to tackle these issues in a positive way.
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From Passport to MyWorld: MediaSmarts extends digital literacy skills to secondary students

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 29 Mar 2011.

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. 

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Authenticating Information, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Journalism & News, Music, Online Gambling, Online Hate, Privacy, Professional Development, Resources

e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 29 Oct 2010.

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. Thanks to digital media, the world is changing so rapidly today – consider that five years ago there was no Twitter, ten years ago no Facebook and fifteen years ago no Google – that even those of us who spent our childhoods programming our parents’ VCRs can feel left behind.

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Cyberbullying, Internet & Mobile, Online Hate, Parents, Resources

History's Mirror: Media education and the teaching of history

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 03 Nov 2009.

On November 5, 2009, MNet Media Education Specialist Matthew Johnson participated in the Association of Canadian Studies’ conference Knowing Ourselves: The Challenge of Teaching History of Canadian Official Minority Language Communities, speaking on the topic Media, Diversity and Our History. What follows is an expanded version of his remarks.

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