Skill Descriptor:
Employ critical literacy skills as media consumers.
Achievement Indicators:
Use media terminology (authorship, audience, content, purpose, format, etc.)
Identify codes and conventions of media
Examine other’s ideas and points of view presented, recognizing absent voices
Critically evaluate media ownership and governing regulations
Question and reflect on the role of the consumer
It's a persistent phenomenon: the faster we move into the future, the more we find it embedded with the bones of the past. Why else, for instance, would we still talk about “dialling” a phone, and later about “hanging it up”? Few people remember the early TV remote controls that worked by sending high-frequency sounds, but we still call remotes “clickers.” We still say “stay tuned,” “CC” (carbon copy) e-mails, “rewind” DVDs, and “post” online messages. Even new media darling YouTube contains an old-media artefact of this kind: the name is obviously meant to make us think of television, the “boob tube,” but few TVs have tubes in them anymore.
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
My Voice is Louder Than Hate, MediaSmarts’ latest resource, uses digital storytelling and meme making tools to encourage youth to push back when they encounter hate online.
Some of the most common ethical decisions youth face online revolve around intellectual property, but teaching kids to respect intellectual property can be particularly challenging because they may not see this as an ethical issue.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 8 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Building on MediaSmarts’ findings on youth and privacy from our Young Canadians in a Wired World research, our new qualitative study, To Share or Not to Share: How Teens Make Privacy Decisions about Photos on Social Media examines the reasoning that teens apply when sharing photos online.
The beginning of another school year is approaching quickly, and as it does many parents are beginning to wonder how they can help their kids ease out of summertime media habits. In addition to having to establish new rules for media use, parents may also face a barrage of requests and questions from their kids regarding digital technology, such as: Am I old enough to have a cell phone? Can I bring it to school? How about my iPod? What about Facebook -- all my friends are on it, I need it to talk to them about my homework!