The Raising Digitally Resilient Kids parent workshop outlines how parents and guardians can support children’s well-being and help them balance the risks and benefits of digital media. Based on insights from MediaSmarts’ research with youth, the workshop provides an overview of online risk categories and provides resources and essential strategies that participants can take to manage these risks.
In the 2022 Elementary Physical Education and Wellness curriculum, digital media literacy is represented in several categories of knowledge, skills and procedures and understandings. Students learn about growth and development, safety, nutrition, mental health, healthy relationships and financial literacy.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 4 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In this lesson, students watch a short video that compares getting rid of personal information online to getting toothpaste back into a tube. After a short discussion of how visual analogies like this work, students discuss the meaning of the video (that information online is permanent.) They then read a series of short scenarios that help them identify four further principles of information online: that it can be copied, that it can be seen by unintended audiences, that it can be seen by larger audiences than intended, and that it becomes searchable. Finally, students create a simple animation that illustrates one of these principles.
First of all, you can’t choose to give up privilege – privilege is by definition an unearned advantage and you cannot choose to not have it. Guilt and shame are not, however, productive ways to deal with this.
In the Prince Edward Island Health Education Framework, media literacy outcomes are included under the broader categories of Self; Safety and Emergency, Nutrition; Healthy Body; Social Relationships and Decisions About Drugs. Prince Edward Island is currently creating a new Health curriculum.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Child Studies Grade 11
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the BC Mathematics 8 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Kellogg Special K Ads
Halloween is perhaps the most contradictory of the major holidays. Though born in Ireland and other Celtic regions, today it is almost exclusively observed in the form that developed in North America; though closely associated with the imagination, it has been thoroughly commercialized, becoming an opportunity for children to buy costumes and then acquire candy (today it is the second largest commercial holiday in the US, after Christmas); and finally, though it is the holiday most closely associated with children, it is also one that has, traditionally, been all about fear.