Integrated Concepts and Process Skills
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 Civic Engagement: students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a diverse democratic society in an interdependent world
Specific Expectations:
1.0 develop the ability to interact effectively as members of Canadian society
3.0 use inquiry processes to investigate and respond to issues
From the tablet to the TV screen, media are a huge influence on how we see ourselves and our world. Nowhere, perhaps, is that more true than when it comes to gender: media provide many of our ideas of what “male” and “female” are, and many of our models of how to behave, what to avoid doing, and whom to emulate in order to play the role we’ve been assigned.
Two of the most important kinds of information we look for online are about health and science. Because most of us aren’t experts on these topics, we rely on people and organizations who are experts for good information. MediaSmarts has developed new resources to help youth and adults find and recognize good information on science and health online.
Collaboration involves the interplay of the cognitive (thinking and reasoning), interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies needed to work with others effectively and ethically. These skills deepen as they are applied, with increasing versatility, to co-construct knowledge, meaning, and content with others in diverse situations, both physical and virtual, that involve a variety of roles, groups, and perspectives.
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to write, both independently and collaboratively, for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to write, both independently and collaboratively, for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to write, both independently and collaboratively, for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
Module 1: The essentials of working with others
2. Students will increase self-awareness by:
3. Students will examine through the use of media the factors that affect inclusive, respectful communication by:
1. The reader learns that reading can fulfill a variety of important purposes for the reader.
Specific Expectations:
2. becomes aware of the importance of reading for school success, for success in one’s business and social life, and for satisfaction as a leisure activity.
4. increases the level of attention to and active involvement in reading in order to accomplish a purpose.
Working independently, cooperatively with a partner and as a member of a large/small group…
Specific Expectations:
1. Students will investigate various forms of communication by: