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.”
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.
It’s that time of year again when parents (and kids) are either counting down the days until school begins, or feeling a sense of overwhelming worry that the summer hasn’t lasted long enough. Admittedly, I’m in the latter category. However, our family has begun to prepare for the new school year.
Being a digital citizen is about working to ensure you are contributing to the health and well-being of your communities. How are you contributing to a positive culture online?
What happens online can have a real impact. It’s up to us whether the impact is positive or negative. What are some ways of using digital tech for good?
Our friends and family pay attention to what we share online. Just like a journalist, it’s our responsibility to make sure something is true before we share it.
Social media is designed to make you share things right away, but it’s better to wait a few minutes to think about it first. Give your “thinking brain” time to take over from your “feeling brain.”
In the digital world, we can lose control of the information we share. It’s important to respect other people’s privacy and take control of your own.
Students in the Middle Block learn Mathematics “within the context of critical thinking, reasoning and justification, and problem solving.” Digital Media Literacy connections are found in the Statistics and Probability strand.
Skill Descriptor:
Determine the probability of outcomes occurring in probability experiments to solve problems.
Achievement Indicators:
Provide examples of two independent events
Determine theoretical probabilities (sample space) of outcomes occurring involving two independent events
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and prove conjectures using logical reasoning.
Achievement Indicators:
Create and justify conjectures by observing patterns.
Determine and justify if given arguments are valid.
Create counterexamples to prove conjectures false.
Compare and contrast inductive and deductive reasoning using examples.
Prove conjectures using deductive reasoning.