Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Geography 12: Global Issues 621A

Overall Expectations: Unit 1: Introduction – what is a global issue?

Students will be expected to:

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Geography 10: Global Issues 631A

Overall Expectations: Unit 1: Introduction – what is a global issue?

Students will be expected to:

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Geography 11: Global Issues 631A

Overall Expectations: Unit 1: Introduction – what is a global issue?

Students will be expected to:

Outcome Chart – Prince Edward Island - Geography 12: Global Issues 631A

Overall Expectations: Unit 1: Introduction – what is a global issue?

Students will be expected to:

Young Canadians need less surveillance and more mentorship online

National study highlights the important role of adults in kids’ online lives. A new report released by MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy, calls on parents, teachers and policy makers to support young Canadians in meeting the challenges of growing up in the digital age.

Indigenous Education Overview

Indigenous education is the overarching incorporation of indigenous perspectives across Manitoba’s curriculum. Many curricular expectations in Manitoba Aboriginal Language and Studies courses relate to media and digital literacy. The following excerpt from Current Topics in First Nations, Metis and Inuit Studies (2011) detail how media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum:

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology 3

Digital Citizenship

Outcome 1: Students will be expected to demonstrate safe routines for using ICT responsibly, ensuring their own and others’ health and safety

Outcome 2: Students will be expected to use information and communication technology appropriately and responsibly, with teacher assistance, to address opportunities for the development of active local and global citizenship.

Outcome 3: Students will be expected to articulate the need to take care in providing personal information online, and share personal information only with teacher approval.

Entrepreneurship

The Nova Scotia Entrepreneurship curriculum has numerous connections to media and digital literacy in the areas of digital ethics and technology.

Computers, metaphors of materiality, and everyday life

A recent case involving lawmakers who want to access data on the computer of a woman accused of engaging in a mortgage scam in Colorado has opened up a virtual Pandora’s box of legal questions: American courts are currently struggling with whether or not suspects can be forced to show authorities how to access their encrypted information and the repercussions of their ruling could affect Canadian law as well.