Responses and Solutions in the Classroom

There are two main strategies for addressing online hate and cultures of hatred in the classroom: teaching youth to recognize and deconstruct it, and empowering them to intervene by answering back to it.

Being a positive digital citizen

Now is a good time to think about how we are creating, curating and engaging with online content.  

Digital Citizen Day is October 25, 2023, and Media Literacy Week is October 23-27, 2023. MediaSmarts is focusing on spreading positivity online as a part of their campaign.

Citizenship 9

Engaged Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Learners will construct a collaboratively-designed service learning project which addresses a need in the school or larger community.

Specific Expectations:

As Tech Evolves, Why Am I Stepping Away More?

Technology has changed and often improved the way we work, live, shop and play, but it can feel overwhelming at times. I think I’m at the age where new technology feels like too much and I hate change and I don’t want to learn something new. This is why I’m still not really using TikTok I guess.  

Encountering Racist and Sexist Content Online

Bigotry, in its various forms, has been with us for a long time – at least since the Greeks coined the word “barbarian” to mean “anyone who isn’t us,” and likely longer – so it’s not surprising that racism, sexism and other prejudices have found a home on the Internet. MediaSmarts’ new report Young Canadians in a Wired World: Encountering Racist and Sexist Content Online looks at how often Canadian youth are exposed to prejudice, how it makes them feel and how they respond to it.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Collaboration

Overall Expectations:

Collaboration involves the interplay of the cognitive (thinking and reasoning), interpersonal, and intrapersonal competencies needed to work with others effectively and ethically. These skills deepen as they are applied, with increasing versatility, to co-construct knowledge, meaning, and content with others in diverse situations, both physical and virtual, that involve a variety of roles, groups, and perspectives.

I was tricked by an AI image online

We have been witnessing a rising crescendo of conversation happening around AI and fake images online. It’s always been an issue, Photoshop and all, but it feels like there’s a snowball effect happening; AI is moving at speeds that we just can’t comprehend or keep up with.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies 9-10

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Aboriginal Languages and Studies 9-10 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Alberta - Career and Technology 9

Outcome Chart - Alberta - Career and Technology 9

Political Science 120

GCO1: Political Thought

Overall Expectations:

SCO1: Students will examine the merits and implications of various political philosophies

Specific Expectations: