Making Your School a Commercial-free Zone
Schools are supposed to be public spaces, but more and more advertisers are using them to target youth. Corporations know just how much time kids spend at school, whether in class, in after-school activities or just hanging out with their friends, and they don’t want to pass up a chance to reach them there. A school setting delivers a captive youth audience and implies the endorsement of teachers and the education system.
Buy Nothing Day
In this lesson Buy Nothing Day is used as a jumping-off point to look at the role of consumerism in our lives and culture.
What happens when students investigate their own digital lives?
When adults talk about young people and screens, we often talk about them rather than with them.
So when I had the chance to speak with four students from a Grade 5/6 class at Glenmore Elementary School in Kelowna, BC, I wanted to hear what they had to say.
Board of Directors
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Say cheese? The benefits, and downfalls, of the Camera app
One of the best and, depending on how you look at it, one of the worst things about our smartphones is that we now have a camera in our pocket.
It means that every moment has the potential to turn into a captured memory. But it also means that every moment may become a captured memory. See the issue?
Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Music Grade 5
Strand
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to respect the contribution to the arts of individuals and cultural groups in local and global contexts, and value the arts as a record of human experience and expression.
Specific Expectations
By the end of grade 5, students will be expected to
5.4.1 use their knowledge and experience to respect and value the contributions of cultural groups in Canada