This tip sheet will give you some tips for building a healthier relationship with social media so you can avoid the comparison trap and feel better about yourself online.
Here are a few things about social media that make us more likely to compare ourselves to others:
Modules
2. Rights, Responsibilities and Justice
3. Governance and Leadership
Overall Expectations:
Knowledge and Understanding Outcomes
4. recognize the importance of their continued participation in the political and electoral processes (1)
6. recognize that all humans are born with inalienable rights as set out by the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and supported by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2)
March 8, 2010, Ottawa - Media Awareness Network (MNet) announced today that Alberta Education has licensed its award-winning interactive game – Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) – making the resource available to 1,800 elementary and middle schools in the province.
Ottawa, July 24, 2012 – MediaSmarts (formerly known as Media Awareness Network) is today announcing that all public library members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) will now have access to its Web Awareness Workshop Series through a one-year licence agreement funded by a grant through Google Canada.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Nunavut curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement
Concepts and content:
How do people use the formal political system to make change?
How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?
What is civic agency?
Examples of active citizens
The Newfoundland language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. The curriculum document English Language Arts Grade 9 Overview (2012) includes a section that demonstrates the complementary relationship between digital and media literacy and English language arts:
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba Grade 6 Physical/Health Education curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
October 20, 2011 (Ottawa) – Media Awareness Network (MNet) has launched Privacy Pirates, a new interactive resource to teach children about online privacy and how to distinguish between public and private information when playing on the Internet. The game was unveiled today by MNet's Director of Education Matthew Johnson at the Prince Edward Island Teachers' Federation Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
This chart contains media-related learning outcomes from Manitoba, Curriculum for Career Development 12: Full Credit, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.