Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English 10 First Peoples: New Media

Big Ideas

  • The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
  • Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
  • Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.
  • Digital Citizens have rights and responsibilities in an increasingly globalized society.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Conn

Keeping up with kids in a wireless world

By Samantha McAleese, research associate at MediaSmarts and
David Fowler, vice-president, marketing and communications at CIRA.

Digital Health, Internet & Mobile, Parents, Privacy, Social Networking

My Voice is Louder Than Hate

My Voice is Louder Than Hate is a multimedia lesson resource designed to empower students in Grades 9 to 12 to push back against hate and prejudice in their online communities.

Multimedia 12

Aesthetic Expression

Overall Expectations:

Graduates will be able to respond with critical awareness to various forms of the arts and be able to express themselves through the arts

Specific Expectations:

Students will be expected to

Privacy Pursuit: Protecting Your Privacy

In this lesson, students review what the word “privacy” means in an online context and learn key privacy-related vocabulary. They explore different privacy risks and then learn practical techniques and strategies to manage and protect their privacy. Students then demonstrate their understanding of these strategies by illustrating them. Finally, students revisit material from earlier in the lesson and consider how their actions might put other people’s privacy at risk.

Internet & Mobile, Privacy

New Brunswick - Technology 6

Strand: Information Technology Skills

Big Idea: Digital Citizenship

Skill Descriptor:

Apply cybersecurity knowledge to personal data.

Achievement Indicators:

    Define digital footprint

    Discuss ways digital footprints can be commercialized

    Explain the importance of privacy management

    Identify how privacy can and does change and affect society

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Communications Technology 2104

History and Evolution of Technology

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the history and evolution of technology, and of its social and cultural implications.

  • Differentiate forms of media
  • Identify examples of media convergence

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New platform helps youth push back when they see hate online 

May 18, 2022 – Ottawa 

MediaSmarts announces today the release of My Voice is Louder Than Hate, a new resource that uses digital storytelling and meme-making tools to encourage youth to push back when they encounter hate online.