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Outcome Chart - Ontario - Media Arts 10 (Open)

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario - Media Arts 10 (Open) curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Drawing the Privacy Line

I read an interesting Facebook post the other day, written by a teenaged girl. She said quite firmly that it was important for parents to not have their children’s passwords, for their phone or social media accounts. She talked about building trust and how insisting on knowing your kids’ passwords is the first step to them sneaking around online and getting involved in things you wish they wouldn’t.

Cell Phones and Texting, Parents, Privacy

Alberta – Physical Education and Wellness Grade 4

Safety

A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.

Guiding Question

How can taking responsibility impact safety?

Learning Outcome

Students analyze and explain responsibility and how it can impact personal and group safety.

Knowledge: Responsibility includes making decisions to ensure self or others are not in unsafe and uncomfortable situations.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - History CHA3U: American History

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHA3U: American History, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Social Studies 1201

Integrated Concepts and Process Skills

Overall Expectations:

GCO 1 Civic Engagement: Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a diverse democratic society in an interdependent world.

Specific Expectations:

Students will be expected to:

Quebec Competencies Chart - Television Newscasts

Quebec Competencies Chart - Television Newscasts

National Aboriginal Day 2016

Every year on June 21, Canadians recognize the cultures, histories, and ongoing contributions of our First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. For 20 years, National Aboriginal Day has brought a country-wide focus to Canada’s diverse Indigenous peoples and the issues that they face.

Indigenous People, Diversity in Media, Events

The importance of media education

Media education can help young people put current images and messages about Indigenous people into perspective by helping them understand how the media work, why stereotyping exists, how decisions are made and why “it matters who makes it.” Media education is not about learning the right answers; it’s about consuming media images with an active, critical mind and asking the right questions.

Diversity in Media, Indigenous People