Dealing with Marketing: What Parents Can Do
Educate your kids about advertising and how marketers target young people
Respecting Yourself and Others Online Workshop
The Respecting Yourself and Others Online workshop was created to provide tweens and young teens with strategies and knowledge that will help them respect themselves, respect others and respect the space when using social media.
Media Literacy Week launch empowers youth to be upstanding digital citizens
Winnipeg, MB (Nov. 2, 2015) -- Winnipeg youth, teachers and community leaders gathered today for an engaging morning exploring what it means to be a good digital citizen and how to promote respect online.
New tools for Aboriginal youth for making good decisions about sharing online
Today, Facebook, MediaSmarts and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) released a series of newly translated guides for Aboriginal teens, which provide tips for sharing and making decisions online. The Think Before You Share guides were released in Winnipeg during the opening of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.
Your Connected Life: A Teen’s Guide to Life Online
The Your Connected Life guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands of their offline life with their digital one.
MediaSmarts provides guidance to teens for living in a connected world
Ottawa, ON (November 5, 2015) MediaSmarts -- a Canadian centre for digital and media literacy -- today launched a new resource to help students transitioning onto high school navigate the digital dilemmas they may encounter in their online interactions and activities.
Respect in a Digital World: Media Literacy Week 2015
It’s Media Literacy Week! This is actually the tenth annual Media Literacy Week, which runs November 2-6. If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you already have a good handle on what media literacy is all about.