Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question: How are roles connected to character development?
Learning Outcome: Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding.
Despite all of the concerns about what youth are doing with digital media, MediaSmarts’ study Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) has found that not only are most kids not getting in trouble online, they’re often being actively kind and thoughtful towards people they know.
OTTAWA – MediaSmarts, Canada’s not-for-profit centre for digital literacy, has launched a new free, self-directed online course for in-service and pre-service teachers and other educators. Making Media Across the Curriculum will provide training and resources to incorporate digital media production such as games, film, and animation in their classrooms from kindergarten to Grade 12 and across the curriculum.
Overall Expectations
GCO 1: Students will speak and listen to explore, clarify, extend and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
Specific Expectations
1.1 discuss personal experiences with supporting detail
1.2 use active listening strategies for a variety of purposes
1.3 use various types of questions to explore information and ideas
1.5 reflect upon a variety of oral texts to share personal perspectives
MediaSmarts Resources
In this lesson, students reflect on the ways in which digital media can cause stress. Through a series of role-playing exercises, they consider how social media can cause stress by making us compare the highlights of others' lives to the lowlights of our own, and practice strategies for coping with digital stress.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Looks Good Enough to Eat
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Nunavut curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English / English/Communications 11
Outcome Chart - Alberta - Career and Technology 5
Outcome Chart - Alberta - Career and Technology 6