Speak Up! Your guide to changing the world, online and off

Thanks to the internet and social media like Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok, it’s easier than ever to share your views and encourage others to join you in making change. And, due to research conducted as part of the Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge (DERC), we know a lot about how some Canadians are using digital media to get involved in politics. This guide will help show you the ways you can use social networks to make your voice heard and make a difference.

New Brunswick - English Language Arts 8

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Describe and communicate thoughts, feelings, and experiences as well as personal strengths

Achievement Indicators:

    Describe observations, understandings, viewpoints and perspectives

Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 571A/B (Grade 11)

Reading and Viewing

SCO 5: Use personal strategies after reading to interpret the meaning of text.

Students who have achieved this outcome should be able to:

a. describe personal reactions

b. retell and summarize events and/or information

d. distinguish main ideas and supporting details

e. make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections

h. generate questions for further reflection or research

i. reflect on meaning making-processes

Quebec Competencies Chart - The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes

Quebec Competencies Chart - The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes

Outcome Chart - Nunavut - School Health Program 4

Strand: Aulajaaqtut

Overall Expectations: Mental and Emotional Well-being

Specific Expectations:

Decision Making

1. identify the possible effects of various choices
2. identify reasons for individual decisions

1. identify decisions that peers may influence
2. identify ways peers influence them

How Do Canadians Get Their News?

If a news consumer reads a headline from The Globe and Mail while searching Google News, is the story from Google or The Globe? What about if a friend posts the story on Facebook; is the story from the friend, Facebook or The Globe? How can the complexities of what is meant by “source” in a converged news environment be accounted for?

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Equity Diversity and Social Justice 11 HSE3E

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Equity Diversity and Social Justice 11 HSE3E

New Brunswick - English Language Arts Foundational 11

Strand: Interactions

Big Idea: Expression

Skill Descriptor:

Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.

Achievement Indicators:

Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives

Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Communications Technology 10

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Curriculum for Communications Technology, Grade 10, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Political Studies 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following: