This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Information and Communication Technology (BTT1O, BTT2O) in Business, Grade 9 or 10, Open curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Here’s a weird thing: my kids don’t use social media to be, you know, social.
The other day, I was scrolling through my own Instagram feed, while my youngest daughter was looking over my shoulder. She was asking why I follow every account I follow. I explained time and again that each account was a friend of mine – some closer than others, but, for the most part, people I’ve met at some point in life and who I wanted to keep in touch with.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English 10 / English 10 Plus
Overall Expectations: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Communications Technology Grade 11
In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.
Students will consider the use of the Internet as a research tool and learn how to use search engines more effectively. They then apply these new found skills to investigating popular myths about sexuality and contraception.