“Break the Fake”: Media Literacy Week starts today, promoting fact-checking and stopping the spread of misinformation
Ottawa, ON – October 7, 2019
MediaSmarts and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) are today launching Media Literacy Week (October 7 to 11) with teachers and students, libraries and museums, and community groups across the country engaging in activities that encourage Canadians to “Break the Fake” and check information they see online before sharing it.
Media Literacy Week starts today, theme “Fact or Fake: Help the World Stop Misinformation in Its Tracks”
OTTAWA, Nov. 5, 2018 /CNW/ – The 13th annual Media Literacy Week officially kicks off today!
Quebec Competencies Chart - Break the Fake Lesson Plan: Hoax? Scholarly research? Personal opinion? You decide!
Quebec Competencies Chart - Break the Fake Lesson Plan: Hoax? Scholarly research? Personal opinion? You decide!
Alberta - English Language Arts 3
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 3 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Authentication 101 – tip sheet
Did you know that almost a quarter of adults have shared a false news story, and that we’re least likely to fact-check news and other things that come to us through people we know and trust on social networks (even though for many people these are their most common sources of news)?
Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Science 10: SCI421A
Overall Expectations: NoS1
Students will be expected to:
- Explain how science is a unique way of knowing about the natural world.
Specific Expectations:
Sorting Fact from Fiction
The changes in how news is consumed (and produced) described above have also made it harder to verify if a particular news item is accurate – and made it easier for misinformation to be spread, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Social Studies 9
Strand: Nunavusiutit
Themes
D. Current Events
Specific Expectations:
Skills – Processing skills
7. compare sources of information for accuracy, relevancy, reliability and validity
8. draw inferences from information
9. make generalizations from broadly-based authenticated information
10. identify and evaluate alternative answers, conclusions, solutions or decisions
Outcome Chart – Newfoundland & Labrador – Biology 2201
Unit 1: Ecosystem interactions and population dynamics
Overall Expectations: Biomes
9.0 use library and electronic research tools to collect information on a given topic [GCO 2]
22.0 synthesize information from multiple sources or from complex and lengthy texts and make inferences based on this information
Specific Expectations:
MediaSmarts Resources