The British Columbia Career Education curriculum includes a number of media and digital literacy expectations in both the Curricular Competencies and Content, particularly relating to the Personal Development and Connections to Community strands.
The Manitoba Mathematics curriculum includes digital and media literacy expectations at several grade levels, mostly in connection with an representations of probability and statistics in the media.
The Manitoba Science curriculum website states that “the development of increasingly scientifically literate individuals is one of the primary concerns of a 21st century approach to K-12 science education.
The Prince Edward Island Mathematics curriculum includes curriculum expectations relating to recognizing and correcting for bias and the portrayal of probability and statistics in media.
The Saskatchewan Mathematics curriculum includes several courses with curriculum expectations that relate to digital and media literacy, primarily involving media representations of statistics and probability.
This public awareness program, created in partnership between MediaSmarts and the Facebook Canadian Election Integrity Initiative, focuses on authentication of online information.
Moral disengagement is used to describe the ways in which we convince ourselves to do something that we know is wrong, or to not do something we know is right. MediaSmarts’ research looked at the impact of four moral disengagement mechanisms:
How common young people think sexting is has been identified as one of the strongest factors influencing whether they send sexts.
There are four reasons why it’s especially important to engage critically with election news – and political news in general.