Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Science 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 6 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-Being

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Art Grade 8 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Visual Arts 5-8

Snapchat, the mobile app that lets users send "self-destructing" photos, has the distinction of being the only digital tool that does not have a single redeeming feature. While the moral panic associated with blogs, cell phones, social networks and online games has largely faded in grudging recognition of their more positive uses (indeed, research shows that many parents have actually helped their children lie about their age register for Facebook accounts), Snapchat is seen as the Q-tip of the digital age: its sole function is to do the thing that you're warned not to do on the box.

GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
Specific Expectations
SCO 4: critically analyse the purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia)

Like the elementary English Language Arts curriculum, secondary level media-related objectives can be found in foundational outcomes for speaking, listening, writing, reading, and viewing and representing.

1. listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to access and explore prior knowledge and experiences of self and others.
Specific Expectations:
1.1.1 Compare own and others' understandings to reflect upon personal understandings
1.2.1 Connect new information and experiences with prior knowledge to construct meaning in different contexts