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Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 571A/B (Grade 11)

Reading and Viewing

SCO 5: Use personal strategies after reading to interpret the meaning of text.

Students who have achieved this outcome should be able to:

a. describe personal reactions

b. retell and summarize events and/or information

d. distinguish main ideas and supporting details

e. make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections

h. generate questions for further reflection or research

i. reflect on meaning making-processes

Reporting Platforms and Changing the Vibe

Written by Dr. Samantha McAleese

Here at MediaSmarts, we’ve just wrapped up another research project called Reporting Platforms: Young Canadians Evaluate Efforts to Counter Disinformation. This project created space for youth from across Canada to examine and assess reporting processes on popular social media apps (like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube). We wanted to learn more about how young people feel about current efforts to counter misinformation and disinformation and what solutions they might have to address this particular online harm. To do this, we facilitated three focus groups with 36 participants ages 16 to 29, talked to them about how often they see misinformation and disinformation online and what they do about it, and asked them to comment on whether they trust platforms to keep them safe and informed while scrolling and sharing.

Authenticating Information, Internet & Mobile, Social Networking

New Brunswick - Civics 10

GCO 1: Students will investigate civic engagement

Skill Descriptor:

SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement

Concepts and content:

How do people use the formal political system to make change?

How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?

What is civic agency?

Examples of active citizens

Ontario - Language 5

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 5 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

New Brunswick - English Language Arts 10 Extended

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.

Achievement Indicators:

Present a personal viewpoint to a group of listeners

Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when explaining positions

Present with intention, using content, language and delivery to convey meaning

Authentication Beyond the Classroom

In this lesson, students discuss “viral” photos, videos and news stories that spread via social media. They are shown how challenging it is to authenticate these using only their content and are introduced to tools and techniques for gauging their accuracy based on context, with an eye towards making wise and responsible decisions about whether or not to forward them to their friends and family.

Authenticating Information, Internet & Mobile