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Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - Graphic Art and Design 110 (Grade 9)

Critical Visual Literacy

Students will demonstrate competency in critical visual literacy.

SCO 1.1 Students will examine published graphic works.

Visual Art 2202

Overall Expectations:

Electronic gifts for preteens and teens (other than video games)

As your kids grow older, their gift requests may start to look a lot different than when they were younger. While they once circled all the toys in the holiday catalogues that arrived at the door, now they are sending parents text messages or Google Docs with links to their wish list items.

Digital Health, Marketing & Consumerism, Media Production, Parents, Video Games

Outcome Chart - Alberta - Drama Intermediate (7-9)

Improvisation/Acting

Level I - Beginning

The student will be able to:

Create experiences through imaging, visualizing and fantasizing.

Understand and apply the essential elements of a story: character, setting, conflict, climax and plot.

Communicate a clear beginning, middle and end in spontaneous and planned scenes.

Use essential story elements in spontaneous and planned scenes.

Make logical choices within the boundaries of situation and character.

From Ethics and Empathy to Making and Remixing: Extending Digital Literacy to the Secondary Grades

For more than a decade, MediaSmarts has been a leader in defining digital literacy in Canada. This is reflected in the elementary digital literacy framework we launched in 2015. The Use, Understand & Create framework is based on a holistic approach which recognizes that the different skills that make up digital literacy cannot be fully separated.

Authenticating Information, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Digital Health, Internet & Mobile, Online Ethics, Resources

Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 12 (ELA 30-1)

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 12 English Language Arts curriculum (ELA 30-1), with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Marketing and Promotion 11

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

Conduct user-centred research to understand opportunities and barriers

Defining

Establish a point of view for a chosen marketing and promotion opportunity
Make decisions about premises and constraints that define the marketing design space

Ideating

Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 12 (ELA 30-2)

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 12 English Language Arts curriculum (ELA 30-2), with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.