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:
In this lesson, students explore the gratuitous use of violence in sports.
In this lesson, students become aware of the types and amounts of violence in children's programming, and how media violence influences young viewers.
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.
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Applied Technologies
CW20.1 Investigate visual, multimedia, oral and written texts as sources of inspiration for creative writing.
Indicators:
a. Explore sources of inspiration (e.g., conversations, experiences, memories, objects, observations and sounds) as a starting point for personal and public compositions.
b. Examine traditional and contemporary visual, multimedia, oral and written texts that present different viewpoints and perspectives on issues related to identity and social responsibility.
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.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Prince Edward Island Physical and Health Education 7PHEA with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Ottawa, ON (November 5, 2015) MediaSmarts -- a Canadian centre for digital and media literacy -- today launched a new resource to help students transitioning onto high school navigate the digital dilemmas they may encounter in their online interactions and activities.