Ottawa (July 5, 2016) – MediaSmarts, a leading Canadian centre for digital and media literacy, is pleased to announce that francophone libraries in New Brunswick and Manitoba now have free access to its licensed digital literacy program, Web Awareness Workshop Series. This follows a similar partnership with Quebec libraries that launched in May 2015.
CS20-CS1 Explore the underlying technology of computing devices and the Internet, and their impacts on society.
a. Investigate how computing devices function and how the Internet allows connected devices to communicate.
b. Research the history of computing devices and the Internet, including key milestones and contributors
f. Explore the societal impacts of ubiquitous Internet access, cloud computing and connected devices.
Explore and create
I probably could, and maybe should, write about all of the social media changes we are seeing. The troubling updates to Meta’s content moderation policies and the removal of their fact-checking program, the complicated TikTok ban in the US, all of it.
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
1.1 develop their abilities to write creatively and expressively
1.3 write fluently, confidently, and creatively for a variety of purposes and audiences
Specific Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
1.1 develop their abilities to write creatively and expressively
1.3 write fluently, confidently, and creatively for a variety of purposes and audiences
Specific Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
1.1 develop their abilities to write creatively and expressively
1.3 write fluently, confidently, and creatively for a variety of purposes and audiences
Specific Expectations:
Working independently, cooperatively with a partner and as a member of a large/small group…
Specific Expectations:
1. Students will investigate various forms of communication by:
New research conducted during the pandemic by MediaSmarts found almost half of Canadian youth (47%) ages 12 to 17 see racist or sexist content online at least once a week. These findings are shared in MediaSmarts’ new Encountering Harmful and Discomforting Content Online report, which is the second in a series of reports in the latest phase of Young Canadians in a Wireless World, a national survey of 1,058 youth ages 9 to 17 conducted in Autumn 2021.