This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Ontario, Curriculum for Geography CGF3M: Forces of Nature: Physical Processes and Disasters, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Explore and create
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement
Concepts and content:
How do people use the formal political system to make change?
How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?
What is civic agency?
Examples of active citizens
This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories, Grade 8 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
If you’ve found that the source is reliable enough to be worth your attention, you can now read it more critically.
Like it or not, if you use the Internet you have an online identity. Some people call this your "brand." What's a brand? Think about a brand of soft drink, or computer, or jeans, or a band or a sports team. You probably have a certain idea about each one – what it's like, who buys it, and so on.
Overall Expectations:
Specific Expectations:
1.1 Discover possibilities
1.1.1 Form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions
1.1.2 Experiment with language, image and structure
1.2 Extend awareness
CW20.1 Investigate visual, multimedia, oral and written texts as sources of inspiration for creative writing.
Indicators:
a. Explore sources of inspiration (e.g., conversations, experiences, memories, objects, observations and sounds) as a starting point for personal and public compositions.
b. Examine traditional and contemporary visual, multimedia, oral and written texts that present different viewpoints and perspectives on issues related to identity and social responsibility.
The comics industry is currently experiencing a period of immense transformation and expansion, marked by surging sales, rapid digital disruption and a dramatic diversification of readership and content. Far from the niche market it was decades ago, today's industry is a global one where new technologies and distribution methods are reshaping how stories are created, circulated and consumed.