Television - Overview
Most of us have happy memories of watching television with our families when we were young. But what was once a simple shared pastime has become an increasingly complex—and sometimes problematic part of modern family life.
The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising - Lesson
To introduce the issue of pornography for classroom discussion. To help students understand the difficulty in determining the sometimes very fine lines between erotica, freedom of expression, and sexual exploitation and to familiarize them with guidelines for making these distinctions.
Business Technology 11
Citizenship
Overall Expectations:
Graduates will be able to assess social, cultural, economic, and environmental interdependence in a local and global context.
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to
New Brunswick – Science 6
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Sensemaking
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
Achievement Indicators:
Represent and organize titled and labelled collected data using drawings, digital technologies, simple text, tables and other graphical formats
Interpolate or extrapolate from patterns or trends in collected data
Quebec Competencies Chart - Exposing Gender Stereotypes
Quebec Competencies Chart - Exposing Gender Stereotypes
Students get smart about marketing messages at launch of Media Literacy Week
Ottawa, ON (November 1, 2013) – To kick off the eighth annual Media Literacy Week, high school students from across Canada spent the morning discussing marketing and consumerism with a panel of experts. The students, who are taking part in the Encounters with Canada youth forum program, explored a wide-range of marketing issues affecting youth, including food advertising, body image, marketing practices on cell phones and apps and alcohol and tobacco promotions.
Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Social Studies K
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
Mirror Image: Reflections on Gender and Media
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.
Getting the Goods: Finding and Evaluating Science and Health Information
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.