In this lesson, students learn how their personal information is key to how most of the “free” apps and platforms they use make money. They learn practical strategies and tools for managing their privacy and plan how these can be used to limit what audiences have access to their personal information.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 1 Physical Education/Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which commercial apps and websites collect personal information from kids and to the issues surrounding children and privacy on the Internet. Students begin by considering how comfortable they would be with people knowing various things about them, and then watch and discuss a video which explains how targeted advertising works. They then explore the idea of targeted advertising through a class exercise in which Prince Charming tries to target Cinderella with an ad for glass slippers, and then analyze how their own personal information might be used to target them with ads. In the second part of the lesson, students are introduced to privacy policies and how they are rated by the website Terms of Service, Didn’t Read. They read and analyze the site’s rating for a popular app and then learn ways to limit data collection. In an extension activity, students are introduced to the idea of “dark patterns” and imagine how the Wicked Queen might use them to convince Snow White to accept “poison” cookies.
1. apply postproduction techniques to complete an audio and/or a video project according to a production plan
1.1 produce an audio and/or video project, using prepared production plans and storyboards
1.2 identify and employ appropriate use of file formats
1.3 investigate and explain emerging editing technologies and recording and editing methods
1.4 import audio and/or video
1.5 edit, manipulate and arrange imported audio and/or video in a time line
Overall Expectations
GLO A: Build and maintain a positive self-image.
Specific Expectations
1.A.4 Discover the importance of developing a realistic and positive self-image and the consequences of an erroneous one.
1.A.5 Identify how a realistic and positive self-image contributes to self-fulfillment, both personally and professionally.
1.A.6 Evaluate the impact of self-image on self and others.
MediaSmarts Resources
Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Visual Arts 9
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will be expected to demonstrate personal growth through participation and engagement.
Specific Expectations
Overall Expectations
OTTAWA, January 22, 2018 – Soon-to-be teachers in faculties of education across Canada will learn how to develop their students’ digital literacy skills in a special training program from MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy, as part of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s CanCode program.