Computer Programming 11

Competencies

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

Interacting with AI

In this lesson, students explore AI chatbots and their impact on human relationships. They compare chatbots to friends and learn how large language models function through pattern recognition rather than traditional programming. Through a “red-teaming” exercise, students identify risks such as privacy concerns and misinformation. Finally, they complete a “Build-a-bot” activity, designing safe, ethical prompts by defining roles, purposes, and guardrails. This teaches students to interact with AI critically and responsibly while understanding its limitations.

Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - Social Studies Family Life 421

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Social Studies Family Life 421 curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Media Awareness Network is now MediaSmarts!

For the past year we’ve been hard at work conceptualizing a new brand to more clearly define who we are and what we do. Working with our Board of Directors and the wonderful creative team at Brandworks, who volunteered hours of their valuable time to this effort, we spent several months developing our new name and logo.

Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube: A Lesson on Online Information

In this lesson, students watch a short video that compares getting rid of personal information online to getting toothpaste back into a tube. After a short discussion of how visual analogies like this work, students discuss the meaning of the video (that information online is permanent.) They then read a series of short scenarios that help them identify four further principles of information online: that it can be copied, that it can be seen by unintended audiences, that it can be seen by larger audiences than intended, and that it becomes searchable. Finally, students create a simple animation that illustrates one of these principles.

My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate

Level: Grades 9 to 10

About the Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

Duration: 1 to 1 ½ hours

This lesson is part of the My Voice is Louder Than Hate program. This program was possible with financial contributions from Public Safety Canada’s Community Resilience Fund.

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.

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

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