Social Studies 4-12 Overview

Canadian and World Studies, Grades 9-10

The Ontario Canadian and World Studies curriculum includes expecations that incorporate media and digital literacy skills. The document Canadian and World Studies (2013) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between the critical thinking of media education and Canadian and World Studies:

Psychology Overview

Many curricular expectations in Manitoba Psychology courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpt from Grade 12 Psychology (2010) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Active Living 11

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Alberta – Physical Education and Wellness Grade 6

Safety

A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.

Guiding Question

In what ways might risk influence the outcome of an action?

Learning Outcome

Students examine risk and identify the factors that influence action.

Knowledge

Risk is the overall assessment and identification of hazards related to personal safety and vulnerability.

Alien versus predator

When Marlene Kane's sixteen-year-old son Andrew asked her to drive him to the nearby town of Midland last December, she was surprised to hear that he wanted to meet with someone he had met while playing the online game World of Warcraft – and even more surprised to learn that the person he was meeting was a 42-year-old mother of four from Texas. Experts on sexual solicitation of youth online were less shocked however. In fact, for them the only surprising thing was Lauri Price's sex. Everything else about the scenario – how they made contact, Price's openness about her age, Andrew's willingness to meet her, and the lack of deception about her intentions – all fit the evolving picture of how youth are sexually exploited online.

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Career Education 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Career Education 9 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Change and Growth

Overall Expectations

Plan for, demonstrate, and document improvements of one’s own capacity for building a positive self-image.

Specific Expectations

Integrate personal skills such as time management, problem solving, stress management, and life/work balance into one’s life

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Career Education 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Career Education 8 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Change and Growth

Overall Expectations

Analyze one’s own self-image including personal skills, interests, and behaviours and their influences on one’s life and work.

Specific Expectations

Outcome Chart - Alberta - Drama Intermediate (7-9)

Improvisation/Acting

Level I - Beginning

The student will be able to:

Create experiences through imaging, visualizing and fantasizing.

Understand and apply the essential elements of a story:  character, setting, conflict, climax and plot.

Communicate a clear beginning, middle and end in spontaneous and planned scenes.

Use essential story elements in spontaneous and planned scenes.

Make logical choices within the boundaries of situation and character.

Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age

There’s a long-standing relationship between sex and the Internet. As far as back the 1980s, Usenet and local bulletin board systems were used to share pornographic text files and crude (in both senses) graphics, and people have been using digital media to form and carry out online relationships at least as long. However, just as estimates of how much online traffic and content is made up of sexual material tend to be exaggerated[1], our new report – Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age – from MediaSmarts’ Young Canadians in a Wired World survey of 5,436 students, shows that for Canadian youth, sexuality and romantic relationships play a fairly small part of their online lives.