Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 7
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Sexual Exploitation – Overview
The Internet offers young people important opportunities to socialize with their friends and families as well as to find people who share common interests and communities that can provide emotional support. It is also inevitable that at an age where young people are starting to explore their sexuality offline, they will do so online in these interactive environments as well.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
Quebec Competencies Chart - Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
Quebec Competencies Chart - Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
Quebec Competencies Chart - Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
Printable activities for younger children
These printable activity sheets introduce basic media literacy skills and concepts and are suitable for use in homes, schools and libraries. They can be completed independently, but children will learn more if you discuss the activities with them. Younger children may need help reading the instructions and completing some activities.
Representation of Diversity in Media – Overview
What we see – and don’t see – in media affects how we view reality. Media works can be imagined either as mirrors that reflect an audience’s own experience, windows that give them access to experiences they otherwise wouldn’t have known, or in some cases both.
Dealing with Marketing: What Parents Can Do
Educate your kids about advertising and how marketers target young people
Quebec Competencies Chart - Junk Food Jungle
Quebec Competencies Chart - Junk Food Jungle
Covering controversy
The hottest media story in the past week has been the instantly infamous New Yorker cover portraying Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as terrorists. Though the Obama campaign has been measured in its response, media outlets – and particularly bloggers – have been vocal in their disapproval. Some have suggested that the cover crosses the line from satire into hate speech, while others accuse TheNew Yorker of giving ‘aid and comfort to the enemy' by visually depicting the smears and misconceptions that have been aimed at the candidate.