Co-Viewing With Your Kids

One of the most important things you can do to raise media-savvy kids is what’s called shared media engagement. That includes listening to their music, watching TV, movies and videos together, getting to know their favourite apps and playing the games they enjoy. It also includes talking to them about their media lives: what they like, what they’re excited about or looking forward to, and what worries or annoys them. While just being with them is an important step, this is also a great opportunity to help your kids think critically about the media they consume, by asking them questions about it and, sometimes, answering back.

Board of Directors

MediaSmarts is governed by an elected, volunteer Board of Directors.

Alberta - English Language Arts Kindergarten

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

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Arts 9

Curricular Competencies

Students will be able to use the creative process to create and respond to the arts:

Exploring and creating

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Applied Design, Skills and Technologies 6-7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the BC Applied Design, Skills and Technologies 6-7 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Healthy Living 1200

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Healthy Living 1200

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Media Arts 10

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

• Create media art using sensory inspiration, imagination, and inquiry
• Explore artistic possibilities and take creative risks using various sources of inspiration
• Create artistic works with an audience in mind
• Create artistic works to reflect personal voice, story, and values
• Develop and refine skills and techniques in creating media artwork
• Demonstrate safe and responsible

Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?

In this lesson, students draw connections between their existing concepts of privacy and how it applies to the internet and networked devices, then learn essential vocabulary relating to privacy. They then consider some scenarios in which children encounter privacy risks and draw on those to develop a list of “dos” and “don’ts” for using networked devices.

How Kids Cyberbully

Verbal or emotional abuse is the most prevalent form of bullying online. Social bullying, another pervasive form – particularly with girls – includes social exclusion and spreading gossip and rumours.

Technology Education

Many curricular expectations in Newfoundland and Labrador Technology Education courses relate to media and digital literacy. Media and digital literacy have been integrated into the curriculum in the Essential Graduation Learnings of Aesthetic Expression, Citizenship, Communication, Personal Development, Technological Competence and Spiritual and Moral Development.