Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the history and evolution of technology, and of its social and cultural implications.
Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of their technological choices.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- demonstrate an awareness of ethics and environmental responsibility in technological decision-making and work habits
- demonstrate safe and healthy practices with regard to materials, processes, and equipment
- demonstrate effective use of a variety of communications technology media
Lessons that meet Grade 8 expectations
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- Thinking about Hate
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
Educational Games
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)