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Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Science 7

Strand: Iqqaqqaukkaringniq

Overall Expectations: Unit A: Interactions and Ecosystems

Outcome Chart – Nunavut –Social Studies 20-1

Strand: Nunavusiutit

Overall Expectations:

Specific Expectations:

S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:

assess the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
predict likely outcomes based on factual information

S.9 develop skills of media literacy:

Just a joke? Helping youth respond to casual prejudice

One of the barriers to youth pushing back against prejudice is not wanting to over-react, particularly if they feel their peers were just ‘joking around.’ Humour, however, can often be a cover for intentional bullying and prejudice. In this lesson, students analyze media representations of relational aggression, such as sarcasm and put-down humour, then consider the ways in which digital communication may make it harder to recognize irony or satire and easier to hurt someone’s feelings without knowing it. Students then consider how humour may be used to excuse prejudice and discuss ways of responding to it.

Internet & Mobile, Movies, Online Hate, Stereotyping, Television

Outcome Chart – Ontario – Science 7

Strand: A3. Applications, Connections and Contributions

Overall Expectations:

Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences.

Specific Expectations:

Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Health Education Grade 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Prince Edward Island Grade 4 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology Integration 10-12

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Studio Arts 3D 10

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

Create three-dimensional (3D) artistic works using sensory inspiration, imagination,
and inquiry
Explore artistic possibilities and take creative risks
Create 3D artistic works with an audience in mind
Express meaning, intent, and emotions through 3D artistic works
Develop and refine artistic skills and techniques in a range of styles and movements

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - School Health Program 7

Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-being

e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities

Ever since Cronus the Titan tried to swallow his son Zeus, parents have feared being supplanted by their children. (It didn't take.) But it's only in the last few generations, as the rate of technological progress has accelerated, that children have grown up in a world significantly different from the one their parents knew, and it's only very recently that parents have seen their surpass them while they were still in the single digits. Thanks to digital media, the world is changing so rapidly today – consider that five years ago there was no Twitter, ten years ago no Facebook and fifteen years ago no Google – that even those of us who spent our childhoods programming our parents' VCRs can feel left behind.

Cyberbullying, Internet & Mobile, Online Hate, Parents, Resources