1.0 explain how democratic principles and civic engagement can influence the human experience
2.0 analyze information, events, ideas, issues, places, and trends to understand how they influence the human experience
3.0 respond to significant issues influencing the human experience
1.2 collaborate to achieve a common goal
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement
Concepts and content:
How do people use the formal political system to make change?
How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?
What is civic agency?
Examples of active citizens
1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.
Specific Expectations:
1.1.1 Talk about and/or represent self, and listen to others, and demonstrate curiosity
1.1.2 Express and explain text preferences (oral, print, and other media)
1.1.3 Choose to engage in classroom activities
CW20.1 Investigate visual, multimedia, oral and written texts as sources of inspiration for creative writing.
Indicators:
a. Explore sources of inspiration (e.g., conversations, experiences, memories, objects, observations and sounds) as a starting point for personal and public compositions.
b. Examine traditional and contemporary visual, multimedia, oral and written texts that present different viewpoints and perspectives on issues related to identity and social responsibility.
Outcome:
Investigate the importance of personal safety to health and well-being.
Indicators:
(a) Identify potential risks to personal health and security as a result of overreliance on personal devices (e.g., hearing loss due to overuse of audio devices, injury to self and others due to distracted driving).
Generative AI is a new and evolving technology. It has many productive uses like acting as a research aid for homework or an assistant when planning an event. But like most technology that came before, generative AI can also be used for harmful purposes; for instance, it can be used to create fake websites, voice recordings, videos, images, and social media posts that mislead, embarrass or hurt people. What used to require a lot of technical skill to create, can now be done easily: most people who make fake content use widely-available AI tools.
The changes in how news is consumed (and produced) described above have also made it harder to verify if a particular news item is accurate – and made it easier for misinformation to be spread, either intentionally or unintentionally.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 7 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Grade 8 Language curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
One of the reasons why teens turn to shortcuts, such as judging a claim based on the reliability or apparent authenticity of the person making it, or turning to peers and influencers over trusted expert sources, is that they simply encounter too much information to deal with. To overcome this, we need to learn information sorting: how to quickly tell whether or not a source is even worth our attention before considering it.