Reality Check: Authentication 101

Level: Grades 9 to 12
About the Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts
Duration: 1 ½ to 2 hours, plus time for the assessment/evaluation activity

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Family Studies 9

Health and Wellness

Overall Expectations:

GLO 3.4: Demonstrate understanding of mental health and wellness.

Specific Expectations:

9.3.4.2 Identify common mental health challenges that affect adolescents.

9.3.4.3 Describe factors that have an impact on adolescent mental health.

9.3.4.5 Identify where and how to access mental health services.

British Columbia - Arts Education - Media Arts 12

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

Does Media Education Work?

The question of whether media education, or digital media literacy, “works” is a bit misplaced. There is no doubt that it works in the same sense that other areas of study “work,” in that students who’ve received media education know more about digital media literacy than those that haven’t – just as students who take history courses know more about history than those that don’t.

Connected to Learn: Teachers' Experiences with Networked Technologies in the Classroom

For more than twenty-five years, Canadian teachers have been at the forefront of getting students online and preparing them to use the Internet in safe, wise and responsible ways. Thanks to the SchoolNet program in the 1990s, many young Canadians had their first experiences with networked technologies in their classrooms and school libraries. However, MediaSmarts' recent Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III study shows that even now, our so-called "digital natives" still need guidance from their teachers.

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Psychology 30 – Human Development (Grade 12)

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Psychology 30 – Human Development (Grade 12)