Skill Descriptor:
Assess personal health habits and their relationship to wellness.
Achievement Indicators:
Assess the effects of personal screen time
Connect personal habits to health and well-being
In 2016, British Columbia rolled out a redesigned English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum, one that is centered on teaching that “questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens”.
In the working guide Journey On: Working Toward Communication and Information Technology Literacy, media-related outcomes are integrated throughout the curriculum.
According to this document:
In this lesson, students watch a short video that compares getting rid of personal information online to getting toothpaste back into a tube. After a short discussion of how visual analogies like this work, students discuss the meaning of the video (that information online is permanent.) They then read a series of short scenarios that help them identify four further principles of information online: that it can be copied, that it can be seen by unintended audiences, that it can be seen by larger audiences than intended, and that it becomes searchable. Finally, students create a simple animation that illustrates one of these principles.
Home Economics incorporates various media education themes, such as completing research, fostering human relationships, education about consumerism, and resource management. In the Intermediate Level Home Economics Program: Overview and Organization, the Canadian Home Economics Association defines the subject as:
Themes
A. Geography of the Circumpolar World
B. Changes in the Circumpolar World
C. Connections: Canada and the Circumpolar World
D. Current Events
Overall Expectations:
Specific Expectations:
Skills: Processing Skills
First of all, you can’t choose to give up privilege – privilege is by definition an unearned advantage and you cannot choose to not have it. Guilt and shame are not, however, productive ways to deal with this.
The pressure put on teens through ads, television, film and new media to be sexually attractive—and sexually active—is profound. Not only that, but media representations of relationships often teach unhealthy lessons.