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How parents can be prepared for the school year 

It’s that time of year again when parents (and kids) are either counting down the days until school begins, or feeling a sense of overwhelming worry that the summer hasn’t lasted long enough. Admittedly, I’m in the latter category. However, our family has begun to prepare for the new school year.  

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Yukon

 

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Outcome Chart - Ontario - Politics CPW4U: Canadian and International Politics

This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Politics CPW4U: Canadian and International Politics, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

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Outcome Chart – British Columbia – Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies: Industrial Coding and Design 12

Big Ideas

  • Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts.
  • Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills.
  • Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes.

Curricular Competencies

Applied Design

Understanding Context

  • Engage in a period of user-centred research and empathetic observation to understand design opportunities

Defining

Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 6

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 6 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart – Manitoba – Senior Years Graphic Communication Technology 9

 

Those tiny hippos in your house? They’re back to teach us about ‘fake news’

Ottawa, ON – October 1, 2019

They’re cute, they steal your socks, they ride your robot vacuum… and they’re back to help us remember to not believe everything we see online. The house hippo who stole our hearts in a public service announcement in 1999 has come back to Break the Fake in a new campaign from MediaSmarts, Canada’s centre for digital and media literacy.

Creating a better Internet together on Safer Internet Day 2014

February 11 is Safer Internet Day, an annual international event organized by InSafe to help promote safer and more responsible use of online technologies, especially by young people. 

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MediaSmarts and Facebook Canada release new video to help Canadians tell fact from fiction

Quick, easy strategies can keep false news from spreading

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