Outcome Chart - Alberta - Sociological Institutions 20
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta - Sociological Institutions 20 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Can Media Literacy Backfire?
If we can generally conclude that digital media literacy does work, it’s worth asking the opposite question: can media literacy backfire?
Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Psychology 20 – Social Psychology (Grade 11)
Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Psychology 20 – Social Psychology (Grade 11)
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.
Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 12 (ELA 30-2)
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 12 English Language Arts curriculum (ELA 30-2), with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Constant surveillance: Youth privacy in a digital age
Despite what many adults believe privacy matters to youth. More and more, though, youth are finding that their actions online are monitored – by parents, teachers, and corporations. A high school principal creates a fake Facebook profile page and adds over 300 of her school’s students as friends; a Texas middle-school plans to introduce ID cards with microchips that its students will be required to carry at all times; an Indiana high school student is expelled after a profane tweet (sent in the middle of the night from the student’s home computer) alerts his school’s monitoring system.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Health and Physical Education Grade 3
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 3 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Digital Media Literacy Framework
Young Canadians need to be able to make good choices about privacy, ethics, safety and verifying information when they’re using digital media, and they need to be prepared to be active and engaged digital citizens. Based on our ground-breaking research on digital literacy education in Canada – and linked to existing curriculum outcomes for each province and territory – MediaSmarts’ model curriculum that provides a framework for integrating digital literacy in Canadian schools. The framework draws on our research to identify nine essential skill topics that students need to know and provides resources in each category and at every grade level.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Communications Technology Broadcast and Print Production 11
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum for Communications Technology Broadcast and Print Production, Grade 11, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Communications Technology Grade 11
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Communications Technology Grade 11