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Defeating Distraction

Here are some tips to develop a healthier relationship with technology:

Digital Health, Excessive Internet Use, Internet & Mobile

Life 11

Overall Expectations:

Learners will reflect on their emerging sense of self.

Specific Expectations:

Investigate personal interests, gifts, strengths, and skills

Question how personal, community, and societal values shape identity

Investigate relationships with self, family, community, and environment

Analyse the influence of personal interests, gifts, strengths, skills, and values on career interests

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Career Education 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan Career Education 9 curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Change and Growth

Overall Expectations

Plan for, demonstrate, and document improvements of one’s own capacity for building a positive self-image.

Specific Expectations

Integrate personal skills such as time management, problem solving, stress management, and life/work balance into one’s life

Integrated Skills

Overall Expectations:

GCO 2 (Skills): Students will develop the skills required for scientific and technological inquiry, for solving problems, for communicating scientific ideas and results, for working collaboratively, and for making informed decisions

Specific Expectations:

Initiating and Planning:

1.0 identify questions to investigate that arise from practical problems and issue

Performing and Recording:

Introducing #ForYou: A Game About Algorithms

Not many words have had a rise as meteoric as the term “algorithm.” Once only familiar to mathematicians or computer scientists, today algorithms are the subject of warnings from scholars and activists, protested by students whose future lives and careers are increasingly determined by algorithmic decision-making, personified and catered to by would-be YouTube stars, and seen as the almost magical element that is vital to the success of newer platforms such as TikTok.

Internet & Mobile, Privacy, Resources

Quebec Competencies Chart - Celebrities and World Issues

Outcome Chart – British Columbia - English First Peoples: Literary Studies + Spoken Language 11

Big Ideas

The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
First Peoples texts and stories provide insight into key aspects of Canada’s past, present, and future.
Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.

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

Career and Technology Studies

Career and Technology Studies (CTS) is a complementary program designed for Alberta's secondary school students.

Break the Fake: How to tell what’s true online

The Break the Fake: How to tell what's true online workshop will teach audiences four quick, easy steps they can take to spot misinformation and find out if something online is true or not. The workshop includes methods for recognizing AI-generated misinformation, including deepfakes, as well as tips on how to use AI for verifying information.

Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile