Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Applied Digital Communication 12: ADC701A

Overall Expectations: TF1

Learners are expected to:

• evaluate digital information with a critical perspective.

Specific Expectations:

Learners who have achieved this outcome should be able to…

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Applied Digital Communication 11: ADC701A

Overall Expectations: TF1

Learners are expected to:

• evaluate digital information with a critical perspective.

Specific Expectations:

Learners who have achieved this outcome should be able to…

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Applied Digital Communication 10: ADC701A

Overall Expectations: TF1

Learners are expected to:

• evaluate digital information with a critical perspective.

Specific Expectations:

Learners who have achieved this outcome should be able to…

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - ELA 20-4: Knowledge & Employability

Strand: Uqausiliriniq

Overall Expectations:

1. Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.

Specific Expectations:

1.1 Discover possibilities

1.1.1 Form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions

1.1.2 Experiment with language, image and structure    

Political Disinformation

While it’s important to be skeptical of political news, especially during an election, it’s also important to be able to recognize and dismiss outright disinformation: the deliberate spreading of false or misleading information. To a large extent, attitudes towards information and expertise themselves have become politicized, with people on the left being more likely to trust experts and their advice and those on the right being less so.

Fighting misinformation: Why pausing before you share really works!

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more clear than ever that dealing with the misinformation surrounding COVID-19 requires us to come at it from every possible angle. We have needed trusted voices to provide strong, clear and sharable counter-messaging on social media.

Science evolves! And so does (and should) health policy and the scientific consensus

Studies have shown that communicating the scientific consensus on a topic can be a helpful strategy in the fight against misinformation. For example, a 2015 study found that “emphasizing the medical consensus about (childhood) vaccine safety is likely to be an effective pro-vaccine message.”

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 9 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Knowledge & Employability 10-4

Strand: Uqausiliriniq

Overall Expectations:

1. Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences.

Specific Expectations:

1.1 Discover possibilities

1.1.2 Experiment with language, image and structure

1.2 Extend awareness

1.2.1 Consider new perspectives

Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Introduction to Computer Science 12: CMP521A

Overall Expectations: SD4 Analyzing Data

Learners are expected to:

• demonstrate processes used in the collection and processing of data.

Specific Expectations:

Learners who have achieved this outcome should be able to…

a. describe a variety of methods for collecting data;

b. describe a variety of methods for processing data for computational use;