Social TV and Togetherness
Is technology drawing us closer together, or pulling us apart? When it comes to TV and digital media, the answer may well be "yes" to both.
A Parent's Guide to Pokémon Go
Over the last week our world has been invaded: cute cartoon creatures can now be found lurking in parks, restaurants, museums, and even people's houses. If you haven't seen them, it's because they're only visible on a smartphone screen, and only if you're playing the new game "Pokémon Go".
Ontario
This section comprises a curricular overview (below), as well as information about professional development for media education, and about Ontario's provincial media education association, the Association for Media Literacy (AML), in the sidebar.
Outcome Chart - Nunavut - Grade 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Nunavut curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Graphic Arts 11
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Explore and create
Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - English Language Arts 11
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, English Language Arts curriculum, Grade 11, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Each Atlantic Province follows closely the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation Framework for English Language Arts. In this Framework, media literacy is integrated throughout the English Language Arts curriculum under the general learning outcomes of Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - English Language Arts 10
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, English Language Arts curriculum, Grade 10, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Each Atlantic Province follows closely the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation Framework for English Language Arts. In this Framework, media literacy is integrated throughout the English Language Arts curriculum under the general learning outcomes of Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
Newfoundland & Labrador - Health 1-3
Social and Emotional Health: Self-Awareness
GCO 2 Identify and monitor one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviours.
2.3.1 Develop and use an emotion vocabulary
2.3.2 Recognize and accurately label one’s emotions
2.3.3 Recognize they can have more than one emotion at a time
2.3.4 Recognize factors that affect one’s emotions and thoughts
2.3.5 Recognize how emotions physically feel and present in one’s body
Health for Life 11
In the Ontario Grade 11 Health for Life curriculum, media literacy outcomes are included under the broader categories Determinants of Health and Community Health.
On the left you will find the outcome chart containing media-related learning expectations from the Health for Life curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site. Teachers should also note that individual lessons often satisfy a number of expectations.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Physical Education/Health Education Grade 1
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.