Integrity at MediaSmarts

Learn more about how we practice integrity in all our work, including research projects, educational content and knowledge mobilization efforts.

For general public (for workshops landing page)

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Workshops for the general public

Workshop for youth (for workshops landing page)

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Workshops for youth

I’m overwhelmed online. Now what?

I probably could, and maybe should, write about all of the social media changes we are seeing. The troubling updates to Meta’s content moderation policies and the removal of their fact-checking program, the complicated TikTok ban in the US, all of it.

Managing conversations about elections and the media as a parent

Ontario is currently in an election campaign and the entire country will have a federal election at some point this year as well (the exact date is yet to be determined).  As a parent, elections pose a valuable time to have discussions with kids about the privilege of voting, the ways democracy works, how the Canadian government functions, how political advertising works, why sharing accurate info about politics matters and more. 

Digital Media Literacy Workshops for the new Ontario Language Curriculum

MediaSmarts is excited to offer two free virtual digital media literacy professional workshops for educators thanks to funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education. These two new professional development workshops were developed to support the updated Grade 1-9 Language Curriculum in Ontario.

Kids are using their phones to do everything: Is this a good thing? 

“Can you please send that link to my email?” I ask, innocently. I prefer to open the link and order whatever it is my teen needs on my desktop rather than my phone.

Digital Media Literacy for Democracy

Level: Grades 9 to 12

About the Author: MediaSmarts

New research from MediaSmarts shows educational videos encourage people to fact-check

April 30, 2025

Ottawa, ON - New research released from MediaSmarts shows that educational videos like the ones featuring the house hippo as part of the Break the Fake campaign encourage people to fact-check and avoid sharing false information.

Texting, and communication, has changed

There is one place getting more attention lately for increasing the quality of conversations: in-person.