Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Writing 110
Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Writing 110
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
One of the most famous images of online life is the New Yorker cartoon captioned “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” The cartoon, published in 1993, was hugely influential in fixing an image in the public imagination of the Internet as a place where anonymity reigned. It did not take long for that humorous view of anonymity to take on a darker cast, as parents began to fear that Internet predators would use this invisibility to lure their children in the guise of twelve-year-old girls. It's instructive, though, to realize just how long ago this cartoon was published, and how much the Internet has changed since then.
Who Cyberbullies and Why
It’s important to note that there is no single profile of a child who bullies. While some fit the traditional image of someone who is generally aggressive and has poor impulse control, others may be very sensitive to social nuances and are able to use that understanding against their targets. Others may be motivated simply by boredom.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Healthy Living Grade 10
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 10 Healthy Active Living curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 2 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
In the elementary curriculum in Saskatchewan, learning objectives for media studies are included as a category within the supporting domain, Oracy and Literacy: Media. Media-related objectives can also be found within Speaking and Listening, Reading and Response to Literature, Writing, Educational Drama, Research and Presentation and Computer Applications.
People with a disability: left behind by the Media Age? (Part Two)
In the first part of this blog we looked at some of the challenges and barriers facing people with disabilities when it comes to the Internet and other new media. In this final part we turn to possible strategies for making the virtual world fully accessible to all.
Social Studies 4-12 Overview
Media-related objectives can be found in all of the General Learning Outcomes in Social Studies in Manitoba.
Identity, Culture, and Community
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Economics CIA4U: Analysing Current Economic Issues
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Economics CIA4U: Analysing Current Economic Issues, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.