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Poynter partners with MediaSmarts to launch the Teen Fact-Checking Network in Canada
March 11, 2024 - MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s media literacy initiative, is partnering with MediaSmarts, a Canadian non-profit organization, to launch North America’s second
Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 421A/B (Grade 10)
Reading and Viewing
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: Critically analyse the purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia)
Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English 2202
Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - English 2202
Video Game Verbs
In this lesson, students learn that video games are unlike other media because they are interactive, allowing players to do things and make choices. They then explore the idea of affordances and defaults by considering the “video game verbs” that different games allow you to do. They consider the commercial, technical, and genre reasons why some verbs are more often possible than others and then create a simple design for a video game in which players are able to do a wider variety of things.
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Anatomy of Cool
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Anatomy of Cool
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Music K-7
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Music K-7
Tobacco Labels
In this lesson, students debate the effectiveness of health warning labels on tobacco products.
New Guide Helps Communities Fight Hate on the Internet
Ottawa, March 29, 2012 – A Responding to Online Hate guide was released today by Media Awareness Network (MNet) to assist law enforcement, community groups and educators in countering hateful content on the Internet. Despite the growth in online hate and the fact that four out of five Canadians are online, there is currently little information available to the public on this topic: which lead MNet, Canada’s leading digital and media literacy organization, to develop the guide.