My Voice is Louder Than Hate

My Voice is Louder Than Hate, MediaSmarts’ latest resource, uses digital storytelling and meme making tools to encourage youth to push back when they encounter hate online.

What do We Know About Media Violence?

It’s hard to clearly define the effect media violence has on consumers and young people. This is mainly because terms like “violence” and “aggression” are not easily defined or categorized. To a child, almost any kind of conflict, like the heated arguments of some talk-radio shows or primetime news pundits, can sound as aggressive as two cartoon characters dropping anvils on each other.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School GLS1O/GLE1O/GLE2O

Learning Skills

Overall Expectations:

By the end of this course, students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of learning skills and strategies required for success in school

Specific Expectations:

Developing Learning Skills and Strategies

By the end of this course, students will:

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.          

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - ELA 9

Strand: Uqausiliriniq

Overall Expectations: 

1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.

Specific Expectations: 

1.1.1 Listen critically and integrate others' interpretations and understandings to develop personal understandings

1.1.2 Compare preferences for texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and film makers, through discussions with peers

New Brunswick - English Language Arts Extended 11

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Curate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions considering target audiences.

Achievement Indicators:

Present content in a manner that connects with audience and purpose

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

Protecting Your Privacy on Commercial Apps and Websites

Almost all of kids’ favourite apps and websites make money from targeted advertising, which uses their personal information to choose which ads to show them. Many of them also sell the data they collect to data brokers, which use information from many sources to make detailed profiles of users. Some also share it with other apps that are owned by the same company, such as Google and YouTube or Instagram and Facebook. 

Lights, Camera, Action! Making Media in the Classroom, Made Easy

For nearly thirty years, Canadian teachers have been at the forefront of getting students online and preparing them to use networked technologies safely, productively and responsibly. Many young Canadians have their first experiences with the internet in their classrooms and school libraries. Over the past decade, though, while digital tools have come to provide new opportunities for creating and distributing digital content, MediaSmarts’ research shows that most Canadian teachers aren’t making media in the classroom.