Classroom Guide: Integrating Digital Literacy Into Your Classroom Practice

While the training workshops focus on the five key concepts of digital literacy, this implementation guide looks at the specific skill areas that MediaSmarts has identified as being essential for students to learn by the end of their secondary education: ethics and empathy, privacy and security, community engagement, digital health, consumer awareness, finding and verifying and making and remixing. The guide also addresses common challenges to integrating digital literacy into the classroom, such as limitations on available technology and classroom management concerns, and includes links to relevant MediaSmarts’ and other resources, and apps and tools for creating digital media in your classroom.

DigitalSmarts: Explore Digital Parenting

The DigitalSmarts program is a series of eight hour-long workshops designed to teach important everyday digital skills. The workshops include hands-on activities and videos and cover topics such as: protecting privacy and security online, job searching, shopping and banking online, using social media, searching the internet effectively and managing screen time for kids.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Family Studies 9

Health and Wellness

Overall Expectations:

GLO 3.4: Demonstrate understanding of mental health and wellness.

Specific Expectations:

9.3.4.2 Identify common mental health challenges that affect adolescents.

9.3.4.3 Describe factors that have an impact on adolescent mental health.

9.3.4.5 Identify where and how to access mental health services.

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Visual Arts Grade 5

Outcomes

OUTCOME 1: Students will explore the creative process, individually and collaboratively, using a range of materials and technologies, to create with respect and sensitivity a variety of artworks that express feelings, ideas, and understandings

OUTCOME 3: Students will demonstrate an awareness of, reflect upon, and develop respect for the role of art, artists and art making in society, keeping in mind cultural influences

Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Entrepreneurship 11

Strand: Nunavusiutit

Overall Expectations:

Module 4: Business Plans and the Entrepreneur

Specific Expectations:

Unit 4

Become a MediaSmarts Teacher Champion

We are always looking for teachers to help test resources and be the first to give feedback on our new materials. We truly value the opportunity to work with educators to make our resources better and to learn more about the kinds of materials that would support digital media literacy programming in the classroom.

MediaSmarts works with Teacher Champions in the following ways:

Nunavut

In 2016 Nunavut launched a comprehensive K-12 curriculum that includes locally-developed courses and courses adapted from other provinces and territories.

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Internet Time Capsule

In this lesson, students learn about the concept of "time capsules" and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to online content, making a "time capsule" of any online content connected to them. Younger students finish the lesson by creating a group Internet time capsule, while older students finish by considering what online content they might like to remove or keep out of their "time capsules."

Understanding the Internet Lesson Series - Portal Page

Lesson 1: Using the Internet

In this lesson, students will explore their own experiences with online activities, build a common vocabulary of online-related terminology and identify purposes and methods of online interactions from the user’s perspective.

Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 11 Open

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 11 Open