Career and Technology Studies
Career and Technology Studies (CTS) is a complementary program designed for Alberta's secondary school students.
Music 9-12
The Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes for Music 9-12 (2014) identifies four essential learning areas:
Making (M-M) The learner develops understanding of and facility with language and practices for making music.
Creating (M-CR) The learner generates, develops, and communicates ideas for creating music.
Connecting (M-C) The learner develops understandings about the significance of music by connecting music to diverse contexts.
Visual Arts
An important goal of the Manitoba Visual Arts curriculum to is the help students “mature into visually and artistically literate adults able to enjoy, participate fully in, and think critically about and within the evolving visual culture that surrounds and exerts influence in their lives.” As a result, digital media literacy expectations are found throughout the curriculum at all grade levels.
Career Development
The Manitoba Ministry of Education defines Career Development in this way:
The new realities of the contemporary workplace and the contemporary worker have changed our perception and use of the concept of career. Career development is now viewed as complex and multidimensional, involving growing through life and work - an interweaving of learning, experiencing, living, working, changing, and identifying and discovering pathways. Thus career development can be seen as the creation of an individual's life/work designs.
Career Education
According to the document Career Education 9, “The Career Education curriculum is designed to develop the competencies required by all people to successfully manage their work and life.” Media and digital literacy skills and mostly found in the Change and Growth strand.
Film and Video Production
According to the Nova Scotia Department of Education document “Film and Video Production 12” (2003), “Film and Video Production is one of a group of innovative multidisciplinary course options that… draw from and contribute to students’ knowledge and skills in more than one discipline. Students synthesize and apply knowledge and skills acquired in other courses, including courses in English language arts, social studies, sciences, visual and performing arts, mathematics and technology… Film and Video Production 12 curriculum provides opportunities for students to deepen their understanding of the role of the arts in their community and the economy.”
Career and Technology Studies
The following is from Northwest Territories Early Childhood and School Services:
Career and Technology Studies is a program designed to provide students with a variety of career related course choices. Alberta Education states that the CTS program offers opportunities for students to:
Visual Arts K-2
Students at this level “explore the process of creating art; develop skills to support making art in a specific medium; connect the ways visual art is important to communication, history and understanding each other; discuss artistic intent.”
Mathematics 9-12
Mathematics courses in the High School Block “prepare students to use mathematics confidently to solve problems; communicate and reason mathematically … and make connections between mathematics and its applications.” Connections with digital media literacy are found in the Logical Reasoning strand.