Tobacco Labels

In this lesson, students debate the effectiveness of health warning labels on tobacco products.

The Privacy Dilemma

In this lesson students learn the ways that the apps they use are designed to encourage them to share more information—both with other users and with the apps themselves. They are then introduced to the idea of persuasive design or “dark patterns” and investigate whether these are used to make it more difficult to opt out of data collection on popular apps. Finally, the class creates a “rogues’ gallery” to help them identify dark patterns when they encounter them.

Quebec Competencies Chart - Pay For Play

Quebec Competencies Chart - Pay For Play

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Mathematics 4

Data

Overall Expectations:

Data literacy: manage, analyse, and use data to make convincing arguments and informed decisions, in various contexts drawn from real life

Specific Expectations:

D1.1 sort sets of data about people or things according to two and three attributes, using tables and logic diagrams, including Venn, Carroll, and tree diagrams, as appropriate

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Mathematics 6

Data

Overall Expectations:

Data literacy: manage, analyse, and use data to make convincing arguments and informed decisions, in various contexts drawn from real life

Specific Expectations:

Data Visualization:

D1.4 create an infographic about a data set, representing the data in appropriate ways, including in tables, histograms, and broken-line graphs, and incorporating any other relevant information that helps to tell a story about the data

Data Analysis:

Health and Life Skills K-9

In the Alberta Health and Life Skills K-9 Framework, media literacy is highlighted under the heading Program Rational and Philosophy in the section Responsible, Healthy Choices:

Physical and Health Education

Many curricular expectations in B.C. Physical and Health Education courses relate to media and digital literacy. Media and digital literacy skills and concepts can be found in many of the Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and specific course content.

Social Studies

Media components are included in the Northwest Territories Social Studies curriculum in the Managing Information and Ideas strand. The document Social Studies in the Northwest Territories – A Kindergarten to Grade 4 Overview includes the following among key social studies skills:

English Language Arts

The Nova Scotia English language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The curriculum document Foundation for the Atlantic Canada English Language Arts Curriculum: English Language Arts (2012) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between media literacy and English language arts:

Computer Science

“The use of information technology will help enable all students to solve problems, improve their personal performance, and gain the critical and abstract thinking skills necessary to become lifelong learners and contributing members of their communities” (Manitoba Education and Training, Technology As a Foundation Skill Area).