Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the history and evolution of technology, and of its social and cultural implications.
MediaSmarts Resources
It’s looking more and more like social distancing could go on for several months. Our school board has announced that computer-based learning from home will be introduced shortly; other provinces have announced school closures running through to the end of the year and we expect ours to follow suit soon.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Civics and Citizenship Grade 10 Open (CHV 2O)
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Active Healthy Lifestyles Grade 12
Advertising: It’s everywhere No, it’s not your imagination. The amount of advertising and marketing we are exposed to daily has exploded: on average, we see more than four thousand ads each day. At the gas pumps, in the movie theatre, in a washroom stall, on stickers on fruit, during sporting events and plastered all over social media—advertising is pretty much impossible to avoid.
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for History CHM4E: Adventures in World History, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Communications Technology Grade 12
The video game sector is the fastest growing entertainment industry and second only to music in profitability. Global sales of video game software hit almost $17 billion U.S. in 2011. [1]
Few issues capture our anxiety about young people and digital media so perfectly as sexting. As with technologies at least as far back as the telegraph, much of this anxiety has focused specifically on girls and women.