Constant surveillance: Youth privacy in a digital age

Despite what many adults believe privacy matters to youth. More and more, though, youth are finding that their actions online are monitored – by parents, teachers, and corporations. A high school principal creates a fake Facebook profile page and adds over 300 of her school’s students as friends; a Texas middle-school plans to introduce ID cards with microchips that its students will be required to carry at all times; an Indiana high school student is expelled after a profane tweet (sent in the middle of the night from the student’s home computer) alerts his school’s monitoring system.

$uper Bowl

The Super Bowl has long been seen as the “tent pole” of American consumer culture: an annual game that routinely pulls in viewers at a scale otherwise achieved only by one-off events like series finales and celebrity car chases. It actually drives sales of TVs: the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association reports that 2.5 million people plan to buy a new TV for the express purpose of watching the game, part of an overall $8.7 billion in Super Bowl-related consumer spending.

Your child’s first phone: how old should they be?

I remember when the iPad was first released back in 2010. Shortly after it came out, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were spotted at a restaurant letting their daughter Suri, who was four years old at the time, play on their iPad while they waited for their food.

Outcome Chart - Prince Edward Island - Social Studies 9

Unit 2 – Culture in the Global Community

Overall Expectations

SCO 9.2.1 Describe trends that reflect the globalization of culture

Specific Expectations

2.1.1 identify expressions of culture, including language, that are part of contemporary society

2.1.2 describe the most visible, audible, or tactile aspects of culture that are/ have been influenced by globalization

Outcome Chart - Alberta - COMM2055: Web Design 2

COMM2055: Web Design 2

1. develop a multipage Web site 1.1 identify the purpose, audience and audience needs for a Web site

1.2 prepare Web page content that is relevant to the Web site purpose and appropriate for the target audience

1.3 plan the Web site navigation and pages; e.g., storyboarding, thumbnail sketches, site map

1.4 create a Web site according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, including:

1.4.1 pages

1.4.2 text

Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 8

Reading and Viewing

GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

SCO 4: Respond literally, inferentially, and critically to the purpose, structure and characteristics of text, demonstrating increasing knowledge of genre and form (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia).

British Columbia - Statistics 12

Big Ideas

• Statistics plays an integral role in research, decision making, and policy in society.
• The research question and practical and ethical issues determine whether a statistical study should be observational or experimental.
• Statistical analysis allows us to explore, describe, model, and explain variation.
• We can develop statistical thinking to help make inferences intuitive.
• Statistical findings gain value through effective communication.

Curricular Competency

Students a