Outcome Chart – British Columbia – English Studies 12

Big Ideas

• People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
• Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.

Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

What do our kids use their devices for the most?  

There’s no denying that being online can have negative effects, for adults and children. At the same time, we are living in a digital age where being online has become threaded into our everyday lives with various effects, some positive and some not so much. 

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - English Language Arts 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Saskatchewan, Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

In the elementary curriculum in Saskatchewan, learning objectives for media studies are included as a category within the supporting domain, Oracy and Literacy: Media. Media-related objectives can also be found within Speaking and Listening, Reading and Response to Literature, Writing, Educational Drama, Research and Presentation and Computer Applications.

The importance of media education

Media education can help young people put current images and messages about Indigenous people into perspective by helping them understand how the media work, why stereotyping exists, how decisions are made and why “it matters who makes it.” Media education is not about learning the right answers; it’s about consuming media images with an active, critical mind and asking the right questions.

World Views and Aspirations of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Communities in Canada, Grade 11 

College Preparation  

A: Research and Inquiry Skills 

B: Understanding and Respecting World Views and Cultural Diversity  

Overall Expectations: 

A2. Investigating 

A3. Processing Information 

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Science Grade 4

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 4 Science curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

National Aboriginal Day 2016

Every year on June 21, Canadians recognize the cultures, histories, and ongoing contributions of our First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people. For 20 years, National Aboriginal Day has brought a country-wide focus to Canada’s diverse Indigenous peoples and the issues that they face.

Outcome Chart - New Brunswick - World Issues 120 (Grade 9)

Humanity

Students will examine the unity and diversity of the human experience

Hate 2.0 - Lesson

This lesson is designed to be delivered after students have completed at least one of the following lessons: Thinking About Hate, Scapegoating and Othering and Hate or Debate. In groups, students research an online environment (such as social networking sites) and a particular example of that environment (such as Facebook) to learn the issues, strategies and tools relating to online hate in that environment.

Core French

The British Columbia Core French curriculum has a number of expectations relating to digital and media literacy, primarily in connection with finding French online media.