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Resources for families and educators staying home during COVID-19

We’ve put together some of our best resources to help you and your family manage during these uncertain times.

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Media Literacy 101, Parents, Resources

Media Literacy 101

Media educators base their teaching on key concepts of media literacy, which provide an effective foundation for examining mass media and popular culture. These key concepts act as filters that any media text has to go through in order for us to respond.

Stay on the Path: Teaching Kids to be Safe and Ethical Online Portal Page

Stay on the Path: Teaching Kids to be Safe and Ethical Online is a series of resources that aims to promote and encourage ethical online behaviours and digital citizenship with young people.

Outcome Chart – Newfoundland & Labrador – Biology 2201

Unit 1: Ecosystem interactions and population dynamics

Overall Expectations: Biomes

9.0 use library and electronic research tools to collect information on a given topic [GCO 2]

22.0 synthesize information from multiple sources or from complex and lengthy texts and make inferences based on this information

Specific Expectations:

MediaSmarts Resources

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Food and Nutrition Grade 9/10 HFN 1O/2O

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Philosophy: The Big Questions 11 HZB3M

Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information

In this lesson, students examine two websites about unlikely animals and learn how to effectively evaluate online sources. They then create a fake website that demonstrates the misleading signals that are often mistakenly taken as signs of reliability.

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile, Media Production

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Digital Literacy 6-9

There's No Excuse

Almost half of youth who have taken and sent a sext say that the recipient then forwarded that image to other people without their consent. This culture of sharing among youth is a real concern and can have devastating consequences for the person in the picture and the person who forwards it.