Helping kids authenticate information online
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
Welcome to the Jungle
Hi there! I’m Lynn Jatania, the new MediaSmarts Parent Blogger.
The internet is one wild and woolly place. It sometimes astonishes me how far we’ve come from our own childhood – days when we wrote programs in BASIC on our TI-99 and saved them on cassette tapes, and our modem made a cool whoo-eee sound while preparing to tie up our single phone line for the next three hours. We were a long way from the connectivity and social media sites that are second nature to our own children.
Business Computer Applications 12
Curriculum Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Computer Information Systems 12
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Conduct user-centred research to understand design opportunities and barriers
Defining
New platform helps youth push back when they see hate online
May 18, 2022 – Ottawa
MediaSmarts announces today the release of My Voice is Louder Than Hate, a new resource that uses digital storytelling and meme-making tools to encourage youth to push back when they encounter hate online.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Computer Technology 10
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum for Computer Technology, Grade 10, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Drama Grade 10
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Drama Grade 10
Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
This lesson helps teens become active consumers by encouraging them to 'talk back' to advertisers when they have concerns.
Career Development
The Manitoba Ministry of Education defines Career Development in this way:
The new realities of the contemporary workplace and the contemporary worker have changed our perception and use of the concept of career. Career development is now viewed as complex and multidimensional, involving growing through life and work - an interweaving of learning, experiencing, living, working, changing, and identifying and discovering pathways. Thus career development can be seen as the creation of an individual's life/work designs.