This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 6 Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In this lesson students explore the commercial and ethical issues surrounding the reporting of crime in televised newscasts.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Mathematics Grade 12
Many curricular expectations in Alberta Ethics courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpts from Ethics A.1 (Junior High) (1985) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Nunavut curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In this lesson, students learn about the ways in which news coverage of an event or issue can be biased, focusing on the aspects of the medium and industry that can lead to bias. They read an article that examines the coverage of mental illness in the news and then participate in an interactive activity that lets them compose their own article. Finally, students find and analyze a recent news story on a mental health topic and write a letter either praising or critiquing it.
Overall Expectations:
DA02 Critically analyze society’s use of inferential statistics.
Specific Expectations:
DA02.01 Investigate examples of the use of inferential statistics in society
DA02.02 Assess the accuracy, reliability, and relevance of statistical claims in the media by
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.
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the history and future of Web 2.0. From Facebook pages to viral Barack Obama speeches, the latest boom to hit the media is the rise of user-created content. Services such as Facebook and YouTube have created a new business model: rather than selling content to consumers, as media companies traditionally have done.
This outcome chart features links to MediaSmarts lessons and activities that support the learning objectives for Journalism Studies 20.