Managing media with teens

While they’re not going through as much development as tweens, moving to high school at the beginning of this stage – and moving out of it at the end – can be stressful.

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Internet & Mobile, Online Hate, Parents, Pornography, Privacy, Sexting, Stereotyping

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

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 8

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

In the elementary curriculum in Saskatchewan, learning objectives for media studies are included as a category within the supporting domain, Oracy and Literacy: Media. Media-related objectives can also be found within Speaking and Listening, Reading and Response to Literature, Writing, Educational Drama, Research and Presentation and Computer Applications.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Law CLN4U: Canadian and International Law

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Law CLN4U: Canadian and International Law, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Career and Technology Foundations

Career and Technology Foundations

Back to school – cell phone free

My two oldest kids started grades 10 and 11 in September. As usual, they took their smartphones with them the first day.

When they arrived home, I asked them how their classes had went, and they said that every single class had talked about the Ontario government’s new policy about cell phones in school – that is, that cell phones are to be used only for educational purposes, or health or special needs, during class time.

Cell Phones and Texting, Digital Health, Excessive Internet Use

Texting, and communication, has changed

There is one place getting more attention lately for increasing the quality of conversations: in-person.

Cell Phones and Texting, Digital Health, Instant Messaging, Parents

Alberta - Outcome Chart - Aboriginal Studies 30

Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Society

Overall Expectations

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of colonialism experienced by Aboriginal peoples in Alberta and Canada.

Specific Expectations

Students will:

demonstrate an understanding of how cultural differences, social pressures and common misunderstandings can foster negative stereotypes: