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Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) tools

Grades: 6-12Duration: 60 to 90 minutes, plus extension activitiesAuthor: MediaSmarts and TELUSLearning goals:Key concepts/big ideas:

Artificial intelligence, Internet & Mobile

Unpacking Privilege

Students are introduced to the idea of “privilege” in relation to diversity and how it applies to media. They then look at a checklist of media related privileges to help them understand the concept.

Indigenous People, Diversity in Media, Persons with Disabilities, Privilege in the Media, 2SLGBTQ+ Representation, Religion, Stereotyping, Visible Minorities

Unpacking the Black Box: Explaining Algorithms and AI

In this lesson, students learn about algorithms and AI, how they work, how they impact our lives on the internet, and ethical considerations. The lesson begins with a class discussion on algorithms.

Internet & Mobile, Privacy

Violence on Film: The Ratings Game - Lesson

To introduce students to the rating systems for films, videos and television and to the issues that surround these classifications.

Movies, Television, Violence

Watching the Elections - Lesson

In this lesson students look at how elections are media events.

Marketing & Consumerism, Television

Who's Telling My Story?

In this lesson students learn about the history of blackface and other examples of majority-group actors playing minority-group characters such as White actors playing Asian and Aboriginal characters

Indigenous People, Diversity in Media, Movies, Persons with Disabilities, Privilege in the Media, 2SLGBTQ+ Representation, Religion, Stereotyping, Television, Visible Minorities

Your Online Resume

In this lesson, students learn that their online presence is like a resume that can help them – or hurt them – in their future personal and professional lives. The lesson begins by having students do

Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Privacy

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