Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Mathematics 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the BC Mathematics 8 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Healthy Living Grade 11

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 11 Healthy Active Living curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - School Health Program 5

Strand: Aulajaaqtut

Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-being

Specific Expectations: 

Making Decisions: 

1. identify advertising techniques used to persuade

1. practise designing an advertisement using one or more persuasion techniques

Coping: 

1. identify situations that cause stress 
2. identify signs of stress

1. identify specific ways of dealing with stress 
2. practise behaviours which help deal with stress

Online Ethics - Introduction

Despite all of the concerns about what youth are doing with digital media, MediaSmarts’ study Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) has found that not only are most kids not getting in trouble online, they’re often being actively kind and thoughtful towards people they know.

Prince Edward Island - Physical and Health Education 9PHEA

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Prince Edward Island Physical and Health Education 9PHEA curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Keeping Safe Online: CIRA and MediaSmarts release latest Cyber Security tip sheet

CIRA and MediaSmarts have partnered on a series of five tip sheets to educate Canadians about online security issues. The 5th tip sheet in the series, Socializing and Interacting Online, looks at negative issues that can come up when interacting with others through networked technologies including phishing scams and hoaxes, and strategies for dealing with them.

Filters, social media, our kids and ourselves

A few years ago, I mostly stopped using filters on my Instagram photos and stories. I had been using ones that weren’t intentionally changing the way I looked - or at least, I wasn’t trying too hard for that. I was selecting ones that bettered my lighting or made me look less tired.

Younger siblings and social media rules

Our youngest daughter, who is in Grade Seven this year, is moving up the social media ladder.

She has her own tablet to use on the Wi-Fi at home and recently got her own Instagram account. She’s really loving the ability to share pics with her friends and chat with them online – especially because her two older siblings have been Instagramming and texting for at least three years now.