General Competencies
Sense of Identity
Competency-based outcomes:
MediaSmarts Resources
My two oldest kids started grades 10 and 11 in September. As usual, they took their smartphones with them the first day.
When they arrived home, I asked them how their classes had went, and they said that every single class had talked about the Ontario government’s new policy about cell phones in school – that is, that cell phones are to be used only for educational purposes, or health or special needs, during class time.
GCO 1: explore, challenge, develop and express ideas using the skills, language, techniques and processes of the arts
CM 1.2 assess and utilize the properties of various art media and their ability to convey intended meaning
CM 1.3 create a variety of interrelated artworks on themes found through direct observation, personal experience, and imagination
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and the value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture
Specific Expectations:
In this lesson, students learn that AI tools are computer programs that follow patterns instead of thinking like humans. They explore how this can lead AIs to make mistakes and importance of having humans supervise and correct them. Students practice creating “robot rules” and then design a "Trashbot" that will recognize and pick up trash in the classroom.
This lesson looks at food photography and the different techniques used by food stylists to make foods look appealing in advertisements.
In this lesson, students discuss their experiences playing free online games and then learn the costs of these “free” games in the form of paying with money, sharing personal information or providing attention to advertising or branded content. Students then learn a variety of techniques for mitigating the risks and drawbacks of online games and communicate their learning by describing one of these techniques in video-game terms.
In this lesson, students examine two websites about unlikely animals and learn how to effectively evaluate online sources. They then create a fake website that demonstrates the misleading signals that are often mistakenly taken as signs of reliability.
In the NWT, students follow the same program of studies that can be found on the Alberta website.
In Alberta, the following strands in the Mathematics curriculum have connections to digital and media literacy:
K-9:
10-12: