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Technological Education 9-10
Strands in the Technological Education curriculum
The overall and specific expectations for each course in the technological education curriculum are typically organized in four distinct but related strands. The strands are Fundamentals; Skills; Technology, the Environment, and Society; and Professional Practice and Career Opportunities.
The Grade Nine and Ten curriculum document Technological Education includes information on how media literacy is relevant to the content of these courses:
Ontario
This section comprises a curricular overview (below), as well as information about professional development for media education, and about Ontario's provincial media education association, the Association for Media Literacy (AML), in the sidebar.
Mathematics
The Nova Scotia mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education topics. In particular, numerous courses have expectations relating to probability, which can be applied to representations of probability in media, and to bias in how data is collected and represented.
English Language Arts
The Nova Scotia English language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. These are found throughout the three strands: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
Alberta
This section comprises a curricular overview, as well as information about professional development for media education.
Nova Scotia
This section comprises a curricular overview (below), as well as curriculum outcome charts from Nova Scotia's English Language Arts, Social Studies, Information Technology and other curricula. These charts include links to supporting MediaSmarts resources and lessons.
Videos: 2025
The following fact-checking videos have been produced by teens for teens. The viral claims they chose to fact-check touch on a range of topics from the environment, health, science and food to beauty products, social media trends and even presumed “weird” local bylaws that caught their attention.