Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
Quebec Competencies Chart - Data Defenders: Understanding data collection online
Level: Grades 4 to 6
Subject Area: Digital citizenship, privacy, online marketing
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/data-defenders-understanding-data-collection-online
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 10 (Open)
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 10 (Open)
Sex in Advertising - Lesson
To introduce students to the use and prevalence of sexuality in advertising.
English Language Arts and Literature 4-6 Overview
According to the 2023 Elementary English Language Arts and Literature curriculum, “Language is a uniquely structured system that forms the basis for thinking, communicating, and learning.” The curriculum is built around the six strands of language learning: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representing, with each strand touching on aspects of digital media literacy. The K-6 curriculum notes that English Language Arts and Literature “[helps] students develop deep understandings of others and themselves, build and strengthen interpersonal relationships, and engage in responsible citizenship,” integrating digital citizenship within citizenship education. To that end, digital media literacy education is integrated into elements of ethical citizenship, critical analysis of literature, differentiation of fact from opinion, access of information, and citation of sources.
Social Studies
The Nova Scotia social studies curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The curriculum document Foundation for the Atlantic Canada English Language Arts Curriculum: Social Studies (1999) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between media literacy and arts education:
That's Not Cool: Healthy and Respectful Relationships Online
In this lesson, students begin by considering one of five scenarios that illustrate unhealthy relationship behaviours relating to digital media: pressuring others to share private content, cyberstalking, harassment and abuse of trust. Students then relate the scenarios to their own experience by brainstorming other examples of these behaviours and voting on which they feel are most relevant to their lives. The teacher then leads a guided discussion on the reasons why unhealthy behaviours may be more common when we communicate through digital media and ways in which they can be avoided or mitigated. Finally, students act out their own scenario in which they portray young people successfully dealing with one of the unhealthy relationship behaviours.
Looking back on 2012
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