Surveillance techniques
Thanks to the networked nature of the internet, in which information is always flowing both ways, there's no shortage of ways for apps, devices and websites to collect information about us.
Healthy Active Living Education 11-12
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Healthy Living Strand:
Canadian and World Studies, Grades 11-12
The Ontario Canadian and World Studies curriculum covers topics that pertain to media education. The Canadian and world studies program encompasses five subjects: economics, geography, history, law, and politics; all subjects that encompass media education themes. The grade eleven and twelve curriculum document, Canadian and World Studies, include the following goal:
Healthy Active Living Education 9-10
In Ontario, media components are included throughout the Healthy Active Living Education curriculum, especially within the Substance Use and Abuse and Living Skills Strand:
Ethics Overview
Many curricular expectations in Alberta Ethics courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpts from Ethics A.1 (Junior High) (1985) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:
Arts Education
The British Columbia Arts Education curriculum promotes the development of artistic habits of mind, categorized as exploring and creating, reasoning and reflecting, and communicating and documenting. Digital media literacy is present throughout these curricular competencies, which include a focus on relationships between the arts and various cultures and societies, reflecting on and making connections between creative processes, and considering how audience negotiate meaning.
Mathematics
The Ontario mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The grade curriculum document Mathematics (2007) includes a section that explains how mathematical concepts such as probability can be applied to media criticism:
Technology Education
The Nova Scotia English technology education curriculum includes expectations that incorporate digital literacy. The curriculum document Foundation for the Atlantic Canada English Language Arts Curriculum: Technology Education (2001) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between digital literacy and technology education:
Computer Studies
Many curricular expectations in Ontario Computer Studies courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpt from Computer Studies, Grades 10 to 12 (2008) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:
Religions Education
Many curricular expectations in Newfoundland and Labrador Religious Education courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpts from Ethics and Philosophy 2101 (2010) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum: