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Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 7 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Quebec Competencies Chart - Looking at Newspapers

Graphic Production 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

Engage in a period of user-centered research and empathetic observation
Participate in reciprocal relationships throughout the design and production process

Defining

Sexting: Shifting the Focus from Victim-Blaming to Respect and Consent

Few issues capture our anxiety about young people and digital media so perfectly as sexting. As with technologies at least as far back as the telegraph, much of this anxiety has focused specifically on girls and women.

Cell Phones and Texting, Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship, Gender Representation, Internet & Mobile, Sexting, Sexual Exploitation, Social Networking

Quebec Competencies Chart - Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Quebec Competencies Chart - Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Quebec Competencies Chart - Villains, Heroes, and Heroines

Science 9-12

Science courses in the High School Block “prepare students to hypothesize; inquire, pursue, acquire, and apply knowledge about the physical and natural world; be curious; plan, create and action change; apply a systematic methodology based on scientific evidence and grounded in observation and experimentation; [and] find problems and make decisions by critical evaluation of evidence and applying knowledge and evidence to novel situations.”

The house hippo returns to tackle AI this Media Literacy Week

October 21, 2024 – MediaSmarts has brought back the house hippo – this time to address the rise of AI-generated deepfakes and to encourage everyone to check the information they see online before they share it.

Canada's Prosperity will Suffer Without Federal Support for Digital Literacy

July 7, 2010 (Ottawa) – Canada's leading digital literacy organization, Media Awareness Network (MNet), is sounding the alarm that Canada will continue to trail other countries in productivity and innovation unless a national plan for digital literacy is put in place.