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Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies 7-8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Aboriginal Languages and Studies 7-8 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Theatre Company 12

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

Explore, design, and refine a range of productions in a theatre company
Refine vocabulary, skills, and conventions through presentation or performance
Create theatre productions collaboratively using a variety of methods
Intentionally select and combine dramatic elements and conventions for an intended audience
Take creative risks to express ideas, meaning, and intent

Reason and reflect

Guest blog: How YouTube Watches Us

The YouTube video “Ultimate Dog Tease” has jumped from 15 million to 37 million views since the beginning of May 2011. The “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” has hit 67 million views since it was launched on YouTube. These two videos have more followers than some TV shows. They're fun, they're silly and, like YouTube as a medium, they are worth celebrating.

Internet & Mobile, Privacy

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 4 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Privacy Pirates

When we think about the privacy risks that youth face online, we tend to think in terms of teens and tweens oversharing on cell phones and social networks. Increasingly, though, children are facing privacy issues younger and younger: according to a 2014 study from the UK, kids aged 13-14 said they were eight and a half years old when they first went online, kids aged 11-12 said they were eight and kids aged nine to ten said they had gone online when they were just six years old.^[1]

Parents, Privacy

Quebec Competencies Chart - Click if You Agree

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Digital Filmmaking 25S

Common Outcomes

Students will…

3. Assess textual, numerical, aural, and visual information, as well as the source of the media, to determine context, perspective, bias, and/or motive. (G-3.2)

4. Self-assess ICT representations and go beyond established criteria by enhancing meaning and/or artistry, according to topic, audience, purpose, and occasion. (Pr-3.2)

Computer Information Systems 11

Curriculum Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

Conduct user-centred research to determine technology design opportunities and barriers

Defining

Young Canadians in a Wireless World Overview

Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) – formerly known as Young Canadians in Wired World – is Canada’s longest running, and most comprehensive research study on young people’s attitudes and behaviours regarding the internet, surveying over 20,000 parents, teachers, and students since 2000.