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.
PBS' Frontline will be showing Growing Up Online on Tuesday, January 22.
Third entry in a series looks at sites that help users create content. In the last instalment of this series we looked at some of examples of user-created media such as mashups, fan movies and machinima.
It’s been almost fifteen years since Mark Prensky coined the term “digital native” to describe young people who have grown up with the Internet and digital media. In fact, the children who were born the year Prensky’s book was published are now in high school. While for many, the public perception of young people taking to digital platforms like ducks to water persists – accompanied by the image of adults, particularly parents, who are seen (often by themselves) as hopelessly out of their depth – the question remains how close that image is to reality. Are Canadian youth truly digitally literate? And if they are not "digital natives" who effortlessly acquire their skills on their own or from peers, are students learning what they need from their parents or teachers?
Communication involves receiving and expressing meaning (e.g., through reading and writing, viewing and creating, listening and speaking) in different contexts and with different audiences and purposes. Effective communication increasingly involves understanding local and global perspectives and societal and cultural contexts, and using a variety of media appropriately, responsibly, safely, and with a view to creating a positive digital footprint
By the end of this course, students will:
By the end of this course, students will:
Planning for Learning
By the end of this course, students will:
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the BC Mathematics 8 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
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.
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