Spoken Language 12

Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Crime news

Crime news is a highly developed sub-genre that reflects organizational priorities, audience preferences and systemic biases. This is because “the news media does not cover systematically all forms and expressions of crime and victimizations. It emphasizes some crimes and ignores other crimes. It sympathizes with some victims while blaming other victims.”

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 - Alberta - Art 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Art Grade 9 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

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

New Brunswick - Visual Arts 12

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Exploration and Technique

Skill Descriptor:

Select and experiment with materials and techniques to support decisions about art making practice.    

Achievement Indicators:

Consistently and independently apply elements of art and principles of design through artwork created.

Independently choose media for expressing personal creative ideas.

Manipulate media in unique ways to express creative ideas.

New Brunswick - Visual Arts 3

Strand: Create

Big Idea: Application and Product

Skill Descriptor:

Create and present expressive work in visual arts for a range of audiences and purposes using a variety of art media including technology.   

Achievement Indicators:

Create representations of a variety of subjects with a focus on careful observation

Create art for a variety of reasons, including responses to music and literature

A Princess Story – Printable activity sheet  

This printable activity sheet introduces basic media literacy skills and concepts and is suitable for use in homes, schools and libraries. It can be completed independently, but children will learn more if you discuss the activity with them. Younger children may need help reading the instructions and completing the activity.