Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology Integration 10-12
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology Integration 10-12
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology Integration 10-12
Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-being
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.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology Integration 7-9
10.1 demonstrate an understanding of self and others, the similarities and differences that exist among people, and apply their understandings in a variety of learning situations
10.1.5 identify and use a variety of strategies to enhance social competence and digital citizenship
10.1.6 demonstrate an understanding, respect, and recognition of the value of diversity
Overall Expectations
GCO 1 Students will be expected to speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
GCO 2 Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
GCO 3 Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
Part of stereotyping is the attitude that all members of a particular group are the same, or else fall into a very small number of types. This is particularly true in the few cases where persons with a disability appear in media
Author: MediaSmarts and TELUS
Level: Grades 11-12
Lesson Length: 1 hour, plus time for assessment and evaluation activity
Subject Area: English Language Arts, Visual Art, Drama, Ethics and Religious Culture
Lesson Link: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/there’s-no-excuse-confronting-moral-disengagement-sexting
The Nova Scotia mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The grade curriculum document Foundation for the Atlantic Canada Mathematics Curriculum (1996) includes a section that explains how mathematical concepts such as probability can be applied to media criticism, saying “mathematics is a means by which we interpret the world and must be regularly connected to meaningful applications.”