Quebec Competencies Chart - Crime in the News
Quebec Competencies Chart - Crime in the News
Exposing Gender Stereotypes - Lesson
This is the first of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of this lesson is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
In this lesson, students investigate the importance of branding and messaging, especially as they relate to parity products such as beer and alcohol.
Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Career Education 9
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Career Education 9 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Change and Growth
Overall Expectations
Plan for, demonstrate, and document improvements of one’s own capacity for building a positive self-image.
Specific Expectations
Integrate personal skills such as time management, problem solving, stress management, and life/work balance into one’s life
Outcome Chart – Nunavut - Social Studies 5
Strand: Nunavusiutit
Themes
D. Current Events
Overall Expectations:
Skills
8. generalize, while avoiding both stereotyping and superficial assessments
Wacky Media Songs: Making and Remixing
This lesson series contains discussion topics and extension activities for teachers to integrate the TVOKids Original series Wacky Media Songs. This lesson focuses on enabling students to make media and use existing content for their own purposes.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Aboriginal Languages and Studies 3-4
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Aboriginal Languages and Studies 3-4 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Viral marketing alert
Ads like the one above have been appearing in public transit systems in Ottawa, Toronto and other Ontario cities over the last month, supposedly promoting a drug called “Obay” which prevents teenagers from having their own thoughts, hopes and dreams. It's a classic example of viral marketing: an ad campaign that doesn't actually name the product or service being promoted, but rather tries to get people talking about it in the hopes that when the product is finally unveiled the effect will be greater than a traditional ad campaign could have managed.
Taking Care of Things
When we bought a cellphone for our son, we worried. We worried about how it would affect his brain to be hooked into social media all the time. We worried about online bullying and if he’d be respectful and responsible. We worried that he’d become a video screen monster who never looked up and only grunted in response to our questions about his day at the dinner table.
Is your screen use creative?
If you’re wondering how to get started making media on your phone, tablet or computer, animation is a great place to start. You can start doing it as a family activity even when kids are very young and they’ll soon be able to do almost everything themselves.