This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 7 Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 8 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Aboriginal Languages and Studies 11-12 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Many curricular expectations in Ontario Business courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpt from Business Studies, Grades 9 and 10 (2006) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:
Most of us turn to online sources for news, whether it’s reading a newspaper online or sharing a news story with our friends and family. But news stories are one of the hardest things to verify: sometimes early reports that turn out not to be true still circulate on social media and people may spread false reports for political or commercial reasons, or just for “fun.”
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Applied Technologies
and evaluate their suitability for design and production interests
Overall Expectations: Unit A: Interactions and Ecosystems
Overall Expectations:
Specific Expectations:
S.1 develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
S.9 develop skills of media literacy:
One of the barriers to youth pushing back against prejudice is not wanting to over-react, particularly if they feel their peers were just ‘joking around.’ Humour, however, can often be a cover for intentional bullying and prejudice. In this lesson, students analyze media representations of relational aggression, such as sarcasm and put-down humour, then consider the ways in which digital communication may make it harder to recognize irony or satire and easier to hurt someone’s feelings without knowing it. Students then consider how humour may be used to excuse prejudice and discuss ways of responding to it.
Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences.
Specific Expectations: