Outcome Chart - Ontario - Language 6

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 6 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Manitoba - Outcome Chart - Technologies, Topics and Trends 40S/40E/40M

Overall Expectations:

GLO 1.1: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking.

Specific Expectations:

SLO 12A.1.1.2: Evaluate information and perspectives related to the thinking process.

SLO 12A.1.1.3: Evaluate patterns and connections related to critical, creative, and innovative thinking.

New Brunswick - English Language Arts Foundational 11

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.

Achievement Indicators:

Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives

Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning

Outcome Chart – Nunavut –Social Studies 20-1

Strand: Nunavusiutit

Overall Expectations:

Specific Expectations:

S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:

  • assess the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
  • predict likely outcomes based on factual information

S.9 develop skills of media literacy:

Wacky Media Songs: Finding and Verifying

Level: Grade K to 3

About the Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts.

Duration: 10-15 minutes per activity

This lesson is part of USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools.

Authenticating Information, Cyber Security, Internet & Mobile, Journalism & News, Marketing & Consumerism, Media Literacy 101

Managing conversations about elections and the media as a parent

Ontario is currently in an election campaign and the entire country will have a federal election at some point this year as well (the exact date is yet to be determined).  As a parent, elections pose a valuable time to have discussions with kids about the privilege of voting, the ways democracy works, how the Canadian government functions, how political advertising works, why sharing accurate info about politics matters and more. 

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Parents

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Aulajaaqtut 10

Strand: Aulajaaqtut

Overall Expectations: 

Module 1: Values and Valuing 

5. understand what values are and identify a set of personal values.

6. understand that there are diverse values in our society. They will be able to articulate the process of cultural conflict and values clarification as outside influences that impact on an individual or cultural group.          

Ontario - Language 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 4 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - History of Canada 11

Cluster 1: First Peoples and Nouvelles Frances (to 1763)

11.1.0

Overall Expectations: What is history and why do we study it?

  • Learn what it means to be a citizen of Canada
  • Develop awareness of Canada’s global interconnectedness
  • Understand the diversity and range of human experience
  • Enrich cultural literacy

Specific Expectations:

New Brunswick - Media Studies 120

Strand: Consumption

Big Idea: Media Theory

Skill Descriptor:

Employ critical literacy skills as media consumers.

Achievement Indicators:

Use media terminology (authorship, audience, content, purpose, format, etc.)

Identify codes and conventions of media

Examine other’s ideas and points of view presented, recognizing absent voices

Critically evaluate media ownership and governing regulations

Question and reflect on the role of the consumer