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

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile

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

e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities

Ever since Cronus the Titan tried to swallow his son Zeus, parents have feared being supplanted by their children. (It didn't take.) But it's only in the last few generations, as the rate of technological progress has accelerated, that children have grown up in a world significantly different from the one their parents knew, and it's only very recently that parents have seen their surpass them while they were still in the single digits. Thanks to digital media, the world is changing so rapidly today – consider that five years ago there was no Twitter, ten years ago no Facebook and fifteen years ago no Google – that even those of us who spent our childhoods programming our parents' VCRs can feel left behind.

Cyberbullying, Internet & Mobile, Online Hate, Parents, Resources

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Applying Information and Communication Technology 2 15F

Common Outcomes

Students will…

3. Assess textual, numerical, aural, and visual information, as well as the source of the media, to determine context, perspective, bias, and/or motive. (G-3.2)

4. Self-assess ICT representations and go beyond established criteria by enhancing meaning and/or artistry, according to topic, audience, purpose, and occasion. (Pr-3.2)

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English 10 First Peoples: Spoken Language

Big Ideas

  • The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
  • Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)