Digital Media Literacy for Democracy

Level: Grades 9 to 12

About the Author: MediaSmarts

Alberta – Physical Education and Wellness Grade 4

Safety

A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.

Guiding Question

How can taking responsibility impact safety?

Learning Outcome

Students analyze and explain responsibility and how it can impact personal and group safety.

Knowledge: Responsibility includes making decisions to ensure self or others are not in unsafe and uncomfortable situations.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Physical and Health Education Grade 3

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the BC Physical and Health Education Grade 3 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Physical Education/Health Education Grade 6

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Grade 6 Physical/Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Arts Education Grade 5

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Arts Education Grade 5

Ontario - Language 1

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 1 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

English Language Arts 10-12

The Newfoundland language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The curriculum document English Language Arts Grades 10-12 Overview (2001) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between media literacy and English language arts:

Today’s students live in an information and entertainment culture that is dominated by images, both moving and static.

English Language Arts 9-12 Overview

Like the elementary English Language Arts curriculum, secondary level media-related objectives can be found in foundational outcomes for speaking, listening, writing, reading, and viewing and representing.

Quebec Competencies Chart - Mirror Image

Quebec Competencies Chart - Mirror Image

Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?

This opening video to the Key Concepts of Media Literacy video series introduces students to the idea that the word media – which they may already know in the sense of the media industry (“the media”) – means channels of communication between a person or persons and their intended audience.