Corporate Partnerships
Our corporate partners help us achieve our vision of empowering people to engage with all forms of media confidently and critically.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - English 10 Academic
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Curriculum for English, Grade 10, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Leadership and Peer Support 11 Open GPP3O
Personal Knowledge and Management Skills
Overall Expectations:
By the end of this course, students will:
- explain how their personal characteristics and acquired skills may affect their interactions with others in leadership and peer support roles
- identify and apply the personal-management skills and characteristics required to succeed in leadership and peer support roles;
Specific Expectations:
Personal Knowledge
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Communication
Overall Expectations:
Communication involves receiving and expressing meaning (e.g., through reading and writing, viewing and creating, listening and speaking) in different contexts and with different audiences and purposes. Effective communication increasingly involves understanding local and global perspectives and societal and cultural contexts, and using a variety of media appropriately, responsibly, safely, and with a view to creating a positive digital footprint
15th Annual Media Literacy Week
This year, Canada’s 15th annual Media Literacy Week runs from October 26th to 30th. Co-hosted by MediaSmarts, Canada’s Centre for Digital and Media Literacy, and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE), the annual event invites all Canadians - teachers, students of all ages kindergarten to seniors and community groups, libraries, museums, to celebrate by engaging in media and digital literacy activities.
Outcome Chart – Nova Scotia – Learning Strategies 12
Overall Expectations: Awareness of Self and Others
12.1 demonstrate an understanding of self and others, the similarities and differences that exist among people, and apply their understandings in a variety of learning situations
Specific Expectations:
12.1.5 demonstrate socially competent behaviour and digital citizenship
12.1.6 demonstrate an understanding, respect, and recognition of the value of diversity
A Day in the Life of the Jos
A Day in the Life of the Jos is a comprehensive digital citizenship tutorial that prepares students in grades six to eight to deal with all of the issues they face when using digital technology – from online privacy, to cyberbullying, to recognizing what’s real and what’s fake online.
Applied Design, Skills and Technologies
In 2016, British Columbia launched a new Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies curriculum which it describes as “an experiential, hands-on program of learning through design and creation that includes skills and concepts from traditional and First Peoples practice; from the existing disciplines of Business Education, Home Economics and Culinary Arts, Information and Communication Technology, and Technology Education; and from new and emerging fields. It fosters the development of the skills and knowledge that will support students in developing practical, creative, and innovative responses to everyday needs and challenges.”
Just a joke? Helping youth respond to casual prejudice
One of the barriers to youth pushing back against prejudice is not wanting to over-react, particularly if they feel their peers were just ‘joking around.’ Humour, however, can often be a cover for intentional bullying and prejudice. In this lesson, students analyze media representations of relational aggression, such as sarcasm and put-down humour, then consider the ways in which digital communication may make it harder to recognize irony or satire and easier to hurt someone’s feelings without knowing it. Students then consider how humour may be used to excuse prejudice and discuss ways of responding to it.