Getting your News from Social Media

An interesting thing happened the other day. My husband was talking about some recent political events in the United States, and my kids and I didn’t know what he was talking about.

Computer Programming 12

Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Graduates will be able to assess social, cultural, economic, and environmental interdependence in a local and global context.

Specific Expectations:

Students will be expected to

The development of Indigenous media in Canada

Indigenous media has a long history in Canada. While the earliest newspapers aimed at Indigenous readers were published by settlers, there have been Indigenous-run papers since Ojibwa chief, doctor and publisher Peter Edmund Jones, also called Kahkewaquonaby, launched The Indian in Hagersville, Ontario, in 1885. This tradition has continued with papers such as Wawatay News, based in northern Ontario and Edmonton’s Windspeaker.^[1]

Social networks: How Facebook changed the Internet

It's been a busy few months for Facebook: a government investigation, another in a seemingly endless series of changes to the site's privacy controls, a New Yorker profile of its famously publicity-shy founder and the upcoming release of The Social Network, a thoroughly unauthorized account of its early days. With all of the publicity and controversy around Facebook – not to mention its still-growing popularity – it's almost impossible to remember what online life was like before it. In fact, it's not much of an exaggeration to say that those who began using the Internet after the introduction of Facebook and its competitors do so in a way that is fundamentally different from older users.

Outcome Chart – Ontario – Contemporary Indigenous Issues and Perspectives in a Global Context, Grade 12 

University/College Preparation  

A: Political Inquiry  

Overall Expectations: 

A1. Political Inquiry  

Specific Expectations: 

A1.3 assess the accuracy and credibility of sources relevant to their investigations  

Philosophy 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English Language Arts 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador English Language Arts curriculum, Grade 8, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Overall Expectations:

Innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship support the ability to turn ideas into action in order to meet the needs of a community. These skills include the capacity to develop concepts, ideas, or products for the purpose of contributing innovative solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems.

Challenges to Ethical Thinking Online

Though we sometimes talk about the online world as being “virtual reality,” the things we do there can have real consequences. When we're using the same screen to talk to our friends that we use to kill aliens or when we can't see the people we're hurting, robbing or copying from, it's easy to forget that what we do online matters. This section looks at some of the reasons why youth might behave differently online than they do offline and strategies for getting them to see the online world through an ethical lens.