Young people’s attitudes towards privacy
Contrary to stereotypes, youth do care about their privacy.
Driving and Touch Screens
Our son turned 15 last month, and we’ve had plenty of wary, nervous comments since then about how driving is just around the corner. Next year, he’ll be getting his beginner’s licence! Just 11 more months before he’s behind the wheel!
To Binge or Not To Binge
We are Netflix subscribers, and that means we’re no strangers to the Binge Watch. It’s just so easy to curl up on the couch, especially on a rainy day or a sick day, and plug into a show. Each episode plays automatically, one after the other; you don’t even have to move, except to occasionally confirm that you’re still watching when Netflix prompts you, every three episodes or so.
20th Century World History 12
Curricular Competencies
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Science 10
Appreciation of Science
Overall Expectations:
437 appreciate that the applications of science and technology can raise ethical dilemmas
Specific Expectations:
use a multi-perspective approach, considering scientific, technological, economic, cultural, political, and environmental factors when formulating conclusions, solving problems, or making decisions on STSE issues
Social Studies 3202
Integrated Concepts and Process Skills
Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 Civic Engagement: Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a diverse democratic society in an interdependent world.
Specific Expectations:
Students will be expected to:
Helping kids cope with media coverage of war and traumatic events
The intense media coverage that accompanies traumatic events, such as war, acts of terrorism and natural disasters, can be very disturbing. Certain young people are particularly vulnerable and some can be seriously distressed simply by watching replays of such events.
Parents, educators, health practitioners and others who work with kids can help to lessen anxieties arising from the coverage of catastrophic events.
Book review: "This Gaming Life" by Jim Rossignol
The recently released Pew Report Teens, Video Games and Civicshas revived the question about whether video games can be a worthwhile activity. Another recent entry in this debate is Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life, a survey of computer gaming culture and a chronicle of its role in the author's life.
Computer Programming 12
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Conduct user-centred research to understand design opportunities and barriers
Defining
Fighting misinformation: Why pausing before you share really works!
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more clear than ever that dealing with the misinformation surrounding COVID-19 requires us to come at it from every possible angle. We have needed trusted voices to provide strong, clear and sharable counter-messaging on social media.