Overall Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
1.1 develop their abilities to write creatively and expressively
1.3 write fluently, confidently, and creatively for a variety of purposes and audiences
Specific Expectations:
Digital literacy involves the ability to solve problems using technology in a safe, legal, and ethically responsible manner. With the ever-expanding role of digitalization and big data in the modern world, digital literacy also means having strong data literacy skills and the ability to engage with emerging technologies. Digitally literate students recognize the rights and responsibilities, as well as the opportunities, that come with living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world.
Skill Descriptor:
Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.
Achievement Indicators:
Present a personal viewpoint to a group of listeners
Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when explaining positions
Present with intention, using content, language and delivery to convey meaning
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Computer Programming 12 College ICS4C curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Information and Communication Technology: (BTA3O) The Digital Environment, Grade 11, Open curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
My daughter – age 14 – is all about Instagram. It’s her primary source of entertainment: if she’s on her phone, she’s likely looking at memes or laughing at silly posts made by her friends. It’s also the main way she communicates with them, as they use its messaging service much more than things like texting or video chat.
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Politics CPW4U: Canadian and International Politics, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Once upon a time Screen-Free Week used to be known as TV Turnoff and Digital Detox Week. Participating in TV Turnoff was a bit easier when my daughters were younger because laptops, tablets and iPhones weren’t nearly as pervasive as they are today.
October 24, 2001 (Ottawa) - Canadian children and youth are putting themselves at risk as they explore the Internet with little or no supervision, according to research findings released today by the Media Awareness Network (MNet). The findings focus on areas of risk such as children and youth exploring private and adult-only chat rooms, meeting Internet acquaintances in person, being exposed to sexually explicit and hateful material and sharing personal information.
