Online news is one of the hardest things to verify. Sometimes early reports that turn out not to be true still circulate on the Internet, and people may spread false reports for commercial or malicious reasons, or even just for “fun.”
Skill Descriptor:
Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.
Achievement Indicators:
Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives
Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning
Skill Descriptor:
Curate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions considering target audiences.
Achievement Indicators:
Present content in a manner that connects with audience and purpose
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 7 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 8 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 1 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Overall Expectations: Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)
SCO 5: Use personal strategies after reading to interpret the meaning of text.
Students who have achieved this outcome should be able to:
a. describe personal reactions
b. retell and summarize events and/or information
d. distinguish main ideas and supporting details
e. make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections
h. generate questions for further reflection or research
i. reflect on meaning making-processes
Written by Dr. Samantha McAleese
Here at MediaSmarts, we’ve just wrapped up another research project called Reporting Platforms: Young Canadians Evaluate Efforts to Counter Disinformation. This project created space for youth from across Canada to examine and assess reporting processes on popular social media apps (like Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube). We wanted to learn more about how young people feel about current efforts to counter misinformation and disinformation and what solutions they might have to address this particular online harm. To do this, we facilitated three focus groups with 36 participants ages 16 to 29, talked to them about how often they see misinformation and disinformation online and what they do about it, and asked them to comment on whether they trust platforms to keep them safe and informed while scrolling and sharing.