New Brunswick - Social Studies 9
Civics
Big Idea: Civic Engagement
Skills Descriptor:
Take age-appropriate actions that demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of citizenship (local, national, and global).
Achievement Indicators:
Technology 6-8
In the Middle Block, Technology “focuses on learners developing technology skills needed for personal wellness, self-sufficiency, and foundational skills for future technology learning. Learners will develop digital and applied technology skills for their own immediate and future needs as they develop self-awareness and autonomy.” Digital media literacy skills are found in the topics of cybersecurity and digital communication.
New Brunswick - Technology 6
Strand: Information Technology Skills
Big Idea: Digital Citizenship
Skill Descriptor:
Apply cybersecurity knowledge to personal data.
Achievement Indicators:
Define digital footprint
Discuss ways digital footprints can be commercialized
Explain the importance of privacy management
Identify how privacy can and does change and affect society
New Brunswick - Technology 7
Strand: Information Technology Skills
Big Idea: Digital Citizenship
Skill Descriptor:
Apply cybersecurity practices to hardening of computers.
Achievement Indicators:
Ensure basic hardening of a device is implemented such as firewalls, anti-virus, passwords, updates, and zero-trust relationships
New Brunswick - Technology 8
Strand: Information Technology Skills
Big Idea: Digital Citizenship
Skill Descriptor:
Distinguish between types of cybersecurity attacks.
Achievement Indicators:
Distinguish between phishing, DDoS, MitM, Zero-day exploit, malware, and botnets
Career Connected Learning
In the High School Block, Career Connected Learning is divided into three subtopics: Career and Occupational Learning, Digital and Information Technology, and Skilled Trades. Connections to digital media literacy are found in the first two of those subtopics, particularly Digital and Information Technology.
New Brunswick - Marketing 12
Strand: Fundamentals
Big Idea: Background Information
Skill Descriptor:
Compare the development over time of marketing methods and activities.
Achievement Indicators:
Describe the changes in marketing method due to growth of information technology.
New Brunswick - Technology 9
Strand: Design Thinking Skills
Big Idea: Planning
Skill Descriptor:
Identify a need or problem to innovate or solve a sector-specific challenge or project and develop technical drawings of possible solutions.
Achievement Indicators:
Identify the need or problem, project goal(s), and date required
Identify any other attempts to solve the need or problem and develop a unique solution
Explore Your World K-2
In the Primary Block, learners “investigate, play, grow, pretend, invent, and develop relationships with others and with the environment… They develop interests, social and emotional well-being, and personal safety strategies which help a child feel valued, secure, and ready to learn. Learners get to know their peers, find and fix problems, and show off their learning while experiencing and expressing a variety of emotions.”
New Brunswick - Explore Your World K to 2
Strand: Literacies and Communications
Big Idea: Literate Identities
Skill Descriptor:
Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
Achievement Indicators:
Attempt to integrate new words into communicative opportunities with others.
Engage with a variety of media and/or text in multiple languages.