Technology Fundamentals
Overall Expectations
- evaluate products or services in relation to specifications, user requirements, and operating conditions
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- The Front Page
- Violence and Video Games
- Video Games
Tip Sheet
Educational Game
Technology, the Environment and Society
Overall Expectations
- demonstrate an understanding of social effects and issues arising from the use of communications media technologies and the importance of representing cultural and social diversity in media productions
Specific Expectations
- demonstrate an understanding of social standards and cultural sensitivity and use appropriate and inclusive content, images, and language in communications media productions
- describe the effects of recent changes in communications technology and applications on society and the economy
- identify emerging communications technologies and describe their potential impact on society and the economy
- describe legal concepts and issues relating to communications technology and media production
- describe social and ethical issues relating to the use of communications technology
Lessons
- #ForYou: The Algorithm Game
- Thinking About Hate
- Violence and Video Games
- Video Games
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 9-12)
Educational Game