Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Creative Promotions 20S/20E/20M

Overall Expectations: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking

Convergence, Collaboration & Media Literacy: A CBC Experience

This week, the Students whom I work with at Golf Road Junior Public School had an amazing opportunity directly related to our work together in studying Media Literacy, specific to Television and Film Media. After being approached by Media Smarts, I was connected with the CBC who wanted to engage with and film a class focused on Students’ perceptions and opinions on Violence within popular films.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Communications Technology 11 Workplace

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum for Communications Technology, Grade 11, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Alberta - Social Studies Grade 9

This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Media Design 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Technologies

Boys are just as likely as girls to send sexts of themselves, reveals a new study on young people, sexuality and the Internet.

Ottawa, ON (May 29, 2014) – There is little gender difference in those youth who have sent a sext of themselves – defined as “a sexy, nude or partially nude photo” – to someone, although sexts of boys are more likely to be forwarded,– according to a study of Canadian students released today by MediaSmarts. Boys are also more likely than girls to have forwarded a sext sent to them and are twice as likely to report having received a sext that was forwarded by someone other than the original creator.

Boys are just as likely as girls to send sexts of themselves, reveals a new study on young people, sexuality and the Internet

Ottawa, ON (May 29, 2014) – There is little gender difference in those youth who have sent a sext of themselves – defined as “a sexy, nude or partially nude photo” – to someone, although sexts of boys are more likely to be forwarded,– according to a study of Canadian students released today by MediaSmarts. Boys are also more likely than girls to have forwarded a sext sent to them and are twice as likely to report having received a sext that was forwarded by someone other than the original creator.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 10 (Open)

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Visual Arts 10 (Open)

New Brunswick - Technology 8

Strand: Information Technology Skills

Big Idea: Digital Citizenship

Skill Descriptor:

Distinguish between types of cybersecurity attacks.

Achievement Indicators:

Distinguish between phishing, DDoS, MitM, Zero-day exploit, malware, and botnets

Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age

There’s a long-standing relationship between sex and the Internet. As far as back the 1980s, Usenet and local bulletin board systems were used to share pornographic text files and crude (in both senses) graphics, and people have been using digital media to form and carry out online relationships at least as long. However, just as estimates of how much online traffic and content is made up of sexual material tend to be exaggerated[1], our new report – Sexuality and Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age – from MediaSmarts’ Young Canadians in a Wired World survey of 5,436 students, shows that for Canadian youth, sexuality and romantic relationships play a fairly small part of their online lives.