Teaching Privacy Ethics
With younger children, the best approach is to have a clear and consistent set of rules, both at home and at school, about sharing other people’s content.
2SLGBTQ+ Representation in Advertising
As in other media, 2SLGBTQ+ people have gained a greater and more widely visible presence within the advertising world, with ad agencies courting the “Pink Dollar.” This is not surprising, considering that the 2SLGBTQ+ audience is estimated to be worth around $917 million in buying power.[1]
New Brunswick - English Language Arts Extended 11
Strand: Interactions
Big Idea: Expression
Skill Descriptor:
Curate and present content to communicate facts, ideas, and opinions considering target audiences.
Achievement Indicators:
Present content in a manner that connects with audience and purpose
New Brunswick – Science 6
Strand: Scientific Literacy
Big Idea: Sensemaking
Skill Descriptor:
Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
Achievement Indicators:
Represent and organize titled and labelled collected data using drawings, digital technologies, simple text, tables and other graphical formats
Interpolate or extrapolate from patterns or trends in collected data
Kung fu? In my Karate Kid?
Why is a movie about a young boy learning kung fu called The Karate Kid? For most of the film's young audience, Jaden Smith's break-out movie doesn't explain the confusion. Their parents and older siblings, however, may recall the earlier installments in this series which started with a young Ralph Macchio learning karate from Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, a movie which started as the hero's quest to learn karate to overcome his tormentors and evolved by film's end into a coming-of-age story about the bond between mentor and student. The first Karate Kid struck a chord with audiences, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1984.
Toy Story
Last year in this space we wrote about how summer movies serve as advertisements for various kinds of merchandising. The success of 2007's Transformers and its sequel this summer point to a different but similar trend: making movies that are actually about the toys companies sell.
The Privacy Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Online Life
It's been widely said that attention is the currency of the 21st Century. In an age where media occupy an increasingly central role in our lives, the need to have that media focused on you becomes intense. For no-one is this more true than for children and teens, who now expect to be connected twenty-four hours a day and for whom the Internet and cell phones are essential parts of their social lives. An interesting Facebook page, amusing Tweets, outrageous YouTube videos, even shocking photos sent by cell phone -- most of us are aware of the ways that young people seek their peers' attention. In today's media environment, is it still possible to teach young people the value of privacy? What, indeed, does the idea of privacy even mean to today's children and teens?
Outcome Chart - Alberta - Social Studies Grade 5
This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Quebec Competencies Chart - Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
Quebec Competencies Chart - Adversmarts: Understanding Food Advertising Online
Quebec Competencies Chart - Authentication Beyond the Classroom
Quebec Competencies Chart - Authentication Beyond the Classroom