That's Not Cool: Healthy and Respectful Relationships Online

In this lesson, students begin by considering one of five scenarios that illustrate unhealthy relationship behaviours relating to digital media: pressuring others to share private content, cyberstalking, harassment and abuse of trust. Students then relate the scenarios to their own experience by brainstorming other examples of these behaviours and voting on which they feel are most relevant to their lives. The teacher then leads a guided discussion on the reasons why unhealthy behaviours may be more common when we communicate through digital media and ways in which they can be avoided or mitigated. Finally, students act out their own scenario in which they portray young people successfully dealing with one of the unhealthy relationship behaviours.

Outcome Chart – British Columbia – Arts Education: Drama 11

Curricular Competencies

Explore and Create

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Health Education Grade 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 9 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Representation of Diversity in Media – Overview

What we see – and don’t see – in media affects how we view reality. Media works can be imagined either as mirrors that reflect an audience’s own experience, windows that give them access to experiences they otherwise wouldn’t have known, or in some cases both.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Social Studies 11

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 11 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Crime news norms and practices

The creation of ‘crime news’ is “invariably the result of a long process of selection where the raw material is sifted, shaped, edited and recreated.” The choices made during this process often prioritize ease of production, drama and law enforcement narratives.