Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 9
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Senior 1 (Grade 9) English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 10
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Senior 2 (Grade 10) English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Fighting misinformation: Why pausing before you share really works!
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more clear than ever that dealing with the misinformation surrounding COVID-19 requires us to come at it from every possible angle. We have needed trusted voices to provide strong, clear and sharable counter-messaging on social media.
Mathematics
The Nova Scotia mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education topics. In particular, numerous courses have expectations relating to probability, which can be applied to representations of probability in media, and to bias in how data is collected and represented.
Arts Education
The British Columbia Arts Education curriculum promotes the development of artistic habits of mind, categorized as exploring and creating, reasoning and reflecting, and communicating and documenting. Digital media literacy is present throughout these curricular competencies, which include a focus on relationships between the arts and various cultures and societies, reflecting on and making connections between creative processes, and considering how audience negotiate meaning.
Mathematics
The Ontario mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The grade curriculum document Mathematics (2007) includes a section that explains how mathematical concepts such as probability can be applied to media criticism:
Violence in Sports
In this lesson, students explore the gratuitous use of violence in sports.
Taking Charge of TV Violence
In this lesson, students become aware of the types and amounts of violence in children's programming, and how media violence influences young viewers.
Suffragettes and Iron Ladies - Lesson
This lesson considers how the media portrays women in politics. Students explore capsule biographies of female political leaders, from ancient times to current events – crafted from snippets of media coverage such as newspapers, magazines, TV news and encyclopedias – to understand bias in how female politicians are portrayed.