Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Arts 6

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Arts 6

Home Economics Overview

Home Economics incorporates various media education themes, such as completing research, fostering human relationships, education about consumerism, and resource management.  In the Intermediate Level Home Economics Program: Overview and Organization, the Canadian Home Economics Association defines the subject as:

Calling Out versus Calling In: Helping youth respond to casual prejudice online

Youth are often reluctant to “call out” their friends or peers who say or do prejudiced things online because they’re afraid that others might get mad at them or because they’re not sure if the person intended to be prejudiced. Putting someone on the spot for something they’ve said or done is more likely to make them feel guilty or angry and not likely to change their mind around the impact of their actions, and it can also make the situation about the person who’s “calling out” instead of what the other person said or did.

This lesson introduces students to the idea of “calling in” – reaching out to someone privately with the assumption that they didn’t mean to do any harm – and explores how this idea can be applied both to casual prejudice online and when responding to stereotyping and other negative representations in media. Finally, students explore the different benefits of “calling out” and “calling in”, and consider when the two strategies would be most appropriate.

Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - Health Education Grade 2

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 2 Health Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Advertising and Male Violence

To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Human Ecology 5

Clothing and Textiles

Overall Expectations:

GLO 2.2: Develop understanding of culture within clothing/textiles.

Specific Expectations:

5.2.2.1 Identify factors that influence clothing/ textile choices (e.g., family, peers, media, culture, role, environment, religious, social, ethical, economics).

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Physical Education/Health Education Grade 2

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 2 Physical Education/Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Nunavut - Grade 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Nunavut curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Constant surveillance: Youth privacy in a digital age

Despite what many adults believe privacy matters to youth. More and more, though, youth are finding that their actions online are monitored – by parents, teachers, and corporations. A high school principal creates a fake Facebook profile page and adds over 300 of her school’s students as friends; a Texas middle-school plans to introduce ID cards with microchips that its students will be required to carry at all times; an Indiana high school student is expelled after a profane tweet (sent in the middle of the night from the student’s home computer) alerts his school’s monitoring system.