Outcome Chart - Ontario - English as a Second Language D

This outcome chart contains media education learning outcomes from the English as a ;Second Language D curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Arts Studio 10

Curricular Competencies

Students will be able to:

British Columbia - Genocide Studies 12

Big Ideas

  • The intentional destruction of peoples and their cultures is not inevitable, and such attempts can be disrupted and resisted.
  • The use of the term “genocide” to describe atrocities has political, legal, social, and cultural ramifications.
  • Despite international commitments to prohibit genocide, violence targeted against groups of people has continued to challenge global peace and prosperity.
  • While genocides are caused by and carried out for different reasons, all genocides share similarities in progression and scope.

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Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 4 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Health Education Grade 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Health Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site. The foundational and learning objectives of the elementary health curriculum are not categorized by grade level, as it is intended that these objectives will be attained over the entire period from grade 1 to grade 5.

Tobacco Labels

In this lesson, students debate the effectiveness of health warning labels on tobacco products.

Marketing & Consumerism, Tobacco Marketing

The impact of stereotyping on young people

Generations of North American children have grown up watching “cowboys and Indians” films and TV shows and reading books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Little House on the Prairie. Popular films and novels reinforced the notion that Indigenous people existed only in the past—forever chasing buffalo or being chased by the cavalry. These images showed them as destined to remain on the margins of “real” society. Such impressions and childhood beliefs, set at an early age, are often the hardest to shake: as Anishinaabe writer Jesse Wente explains, “In the absence of appropriate representations of Indigenous Peoples in the media, misrepresentations become the accepted ‘truth.’”[1]

Indigenous People, Diversity in Media, Stereotyping

Do It Yourself

This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the history and future of Web 2.0. From Facebook pages to viral Barack Obama speeches, the latest boom to hit the media is the rise of user-created content. Services such as Facebook and YouTube have created a new business model: rather than selling content to consumers, as media companies traditionally have done.

Internet & Mobile, Marketing & Consumerism, Media Production, Resources