Television - Special Issues for Teens

Television viewing generally drops during adolescence as young people start to spend more time socializing, doing schoolwork, and using other media, such as music, video games, computers and the Internet.

Television

Prince Edward Island - Physical and Health Education 7PHEA

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Prince Edward Island Physical and Health Education 7PHEA with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 8 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Science for Citizens 11

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Questioning and predicting

  • Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal, local, or global interest
  • Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions, including increasingly abstract ones, about the natural world
  • Formulate multiple hypotheses and predict multiple outcomes

Planning and conducting

Laws, Rules and Personal Morality

It’s important to make young people aware of the laws that apply to what they do online, as well as to have household rules that cover online behaviour.

Online Ethics

Raising a Digital Generation: Media Awareness Network Launches New Tutorial for Parents

October 29, 2010 (Ottawa) – Media Awareness Network (MNet) today released e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids’ online activities, an online resource to help parents better understand and become actively involved in their children’s online lives.

Alberta students' safe Internet use promoted in MyWorld

Online resource addresses issues of cyberbullying and privacy

November 14, 2011 (Ottawa) – Alberta Education has licensed MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students for all secondary schools in the province. The interactive tutorial –developed by Media Awareness Network (MNet) – offers students simulations of popular online sites to teach them about cyberbullying, hate speech, online marketing ploys and privacy protection.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Literary Studies 10

Curricular Competencies

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

  • Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals
  • Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing
  • Explore the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts
  • Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts
  • Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures,

Theatre Production 12

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

  • Plan and create theatre productions collaboratively and individually using imagination, observation, and inquiry
  • Intentionally select and combine production elements for a specific audience or effect
  • Specialize in materials, props, processes, technologies, or other areas of personal interest
  • Demonstrate leadership and innovation in production design using artistic and technical skills

Reason and reflect