Media Literacy Week is an annual national campaign to promote digital media literacy, with activities and events taking place in classrooms, libraries, museums and community groups from coast to coast to coast. Find out how you can get involved!
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 1: Using the Internet
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 2: Pathways and Addresses
Quebec Competencies Chart - Understanding the Internet Lesson 3: Build Understanding
Quebec Competencies Chart - Media literacy key concepts Introduction: What is media anyway?
Quebec Competencies Chart - Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
#ForYou is a card-based pattern-matching game that helps youth aged 13 to 18 understand the role that algorithms play in their online and offline lives, and the value of their personal information to companies that use those algorithms. The game is designed to be delivered either in school or in community spaces such as homework or coding clubs.
A new smartphone is a big responsibility for kids, who have a lot to learn about using them safely, especially when it comes to protecting their privacy.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has created a graphic novel, Social Smarts: Nothing Personal! to help young Canadians to better understand and navigate privacy issues in the online world.
Level: Grades 4 to 6
Subject Area: Digital citizenship, privacy, online marketing
Lesson Link: http://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/data-defenders-understanding-data-collection-online