Outcome Chart – British Columbia - English First Peoples: Literary Studies + Spoken Language 11

Big Ideas

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
• First Peoples texts and stories provide insight into key aspects of Canada’s past, present, and future.
• Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Spoken Language 11

Big Ideas

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
• People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Politics CPC3O: Politics in Action: Making Change

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Politics CPC3O: Politics in Action: Making Change, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Family TV Time

Sometimes I wonder if watching TV is going the way of the dodo. Remember when we were kids, and there was concern about how watching TV was going to turn all of us into mindless zombies?

Pop Quiz

People who make their living producing images, such as photographers, stylists, publicists, directors and pop idols, learn how to use those signs to convey the impression they want to make. Although teen girls who are trying to send a signal to their circle of friends and pop music producers who are trying to send a signal to an audience of millions are working on different scales, the principle is very much the same. Depending on your audience, you need to tailor the signals you send out very carefully. Even your age can have a certain amount of wiggle room when dressed in the right signs.

Spies in Your Stocking: Privacy, Smart Toys and the Internet of Things

This year, it may not just be Santa Claus who sees your kids when they're sleeping and knows when they're awake: one of the hottest trends this season is so-called "smart toys", which use the Internet to hold artificially intelligent conversations with kids while they play. Last year's Hello Barbie, one of the first to use this technology, was found to have a number of major security flaws -- including automatically connecting the mobile device to which it was tethered to any Wi-Fi network with "Barbie" in its name. Now two more toys, a doll called My Friend Cayla and the i-Que Intelligent Robot, have been found to collect data in ways that are far more worrying. 

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English as a Second Language 1205

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English as a Second Language 1205

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English as a Second Language 3205

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English as a Second Language 3205