Digital Media Development 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

• Conduct user-centred research to determine design opportunities and barriers

Defining

Digital Youth Summit 2015

To better understand the skills young Canadians need as citizens and future workers in the digital age, MediaSmarts and the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) hosted a national Digital Youth Summit in Ottawa (October 22-23, 2015) to hear directly from secondary students on this topic. This report provides an overview of the important themes raised and discussed by the students during panel discussions, brainstorming sessions, Speakers’ Corner, and through evaluation forms.

Digital Media Literacy for Democracy

Level: Grades 9 to 12

About the Author: MediaSmarts

Digital Citizenship: Ethics and privacy

In the digital world, we can lose control of the information we share. It’s important to respect other people’s privacy and take control of your own.

Building Healthy Digital Habits

What are healthy digital habits?

Healthy digital habits are ones that make our tech use manageable, meaningful and mindful. That means they:

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Digital Literacy

Overall 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.

Body image – Digital media

Digital media such as social networks and video games have become increasingly important in the lives of children and youth. Even when young people are consuming other media, such as TV, music and movies, they’re likely to be doing it through the internet. As well, nearly all the media they consume, from TV shows to toys, have web pages, virtual worlds, video games or other digital spinoffs associated with them.

Digital Citizenship Guide for Parents

The Digital Citizenship Guide for Parents is designed to prepare parents and guardians for the conversations they should have with their children when they first start using digital devices.

Digital media literacy workshop delivery

MediaSmarts’ experts are available to facilitate virtual and in-person workshops in school and community settings for parents/guardians, educators, youth, older adults and the general public. Our workshops cover topics such as AI literacy online safety, misinformation, digital well-being, managing tech in the home, diversity and representation in media, digital citizenship, critical thinking, online hate and more.