Media are all around us. From the TV we watch and the advertisements we see to the social media sites we use and the news we read. Our digitally connected world is constantly changing how we play, learn and interact with each other.
Screen time is a common topic for parents to try and manage today. Are we allowing too much? How do we make it safe? We will ask our friends and fellow parents for their thoughts or advice or learn tips from resources (like MediaSmarts!) to help us navigate this new aspect of parenting. When I was my kids’ age, we were just loading Netscape 2.0 onto our computers, and we’d check our ICQ messages before putting in a VHS to watch a movie or playing some Super Mario RPG. The online world is so different now.
Digital citizenship is the ability to navigate our digital environments in a way that's safe and responsible and to actively and respectfully engage in these spaces.
Digital media literacy is the ability to critically, effectively and responsibly access, use, understand and engage with media of all kinds.
In the 2022 Elementary Physical Education and Wellness curriculum, digital media literacy is represented in several categories of knowledge, skills and procedures and understandings. Students learn about growth and development, safety, nutrition, mental health, healthy relationships and financial literacy.
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding question: How can personal characteristics contribute to self-understanding?
Learning outcome: Students examine personal characteristics, feelings, and emotions and explore understandings of self.
Knowledge: Emotions show how an individual feels.
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question: How are roles connected to character development?
Learning Outcome: Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding.
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question
How are roles connected to character development?
Learning Outcome
Students analyze different roles within varied contexts and examine how roles can support the development of talents, virtues, and resilience.
A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Guiding Question
How can taking responsibility impact safety?
Learning Outcome
Students analyze and explain responsibility and how it can impact personal and group safety.
Knowledge: Responsibility includes making decisions to ensure self or others are not in unsafe and uncomfortable situations.
A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Guiding Question
How can responsibility lead to a desired outcome?
Learning Outcome
Students analyze responsibility and consider the impact on well-being.
Knowledge