Managing Your Family’s Media Time in a World of Screens
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Screen-Free Week (May 4th to 10th), and it’s striking to consider just how our relationship with screen media has changed in that time.
Outcome Chart - Alberta - COM1005: Visual Composition
Outcome Chart - Alberta - COM1005: Visual Composition
Canadian youth sharing others’ sexts at alarming rate: study
Parents and teachers need evidence-based strategies to confront culture of non-consensual sharing
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Information and Communication Technology/Coding Integration 6
Digital Citizenship
Outcome 1: Students will understand and demonstrate behaviors which ensure their own and others health, safety and privacy.
- Create and maintain a secure online account for classroom use
- Demonstrate correct ergonomics
- Create and follow a personal plan around screen time, social media use, privacy expectations, and digital footprint awareness.
- Model strategies for the safe and efficient use of computers.
MediaSmarts Resources
Newfoundland & Labrador - Health 1-3
Social and Emotional Health: Self-Awareness
GCO 2 Identify and monitor one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviours.
2.3.1 Develop and use an emotion vocabulary
2.3.2 Recognize and accurately label one’s emotions
2.3.3 Recognize they can have more than one emotion at a time
2.3.4 Recognize factors that affect one’s emotions and thoughts
2.3.5 Recognize how emotions physically feel and present in one’s body
Sexting and youth: Confronting a modern dilemma
It’s hard to think of a recent digital technology issue that’s captured the public imagination more than sexting. This may be because it combines elements of the classic moral panic with more modern “technopanic,” provoking worries not just about the morality of our children – and, in particular, young girls – but also about the possible effects of technology on how we grow, think and behave. As with most panics, of course, the issue is substantially more complicated and less sensational than we perceive it to be, and while it’s unlikely that our worries about sexting will ever seem in retrospect to be as absurd as our grandparents’ fears about crime comics, MediaSmarts’ new data shows that many of our beliefs and assumptions on the subject need closer examination.
Racially and Culturally Diverse Media - Barriers and Challenges
Although the benefits of diverse media are considerable, the creation process can be riddled with challenges.
MediaSmarts and CIRA release cyber security tip sheet for online commerce
MediaSmarts has partnered with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) to develop the Online Commerce Cyber Security Consumer Tip Sheet – the fourth in a series of tip sheets on cyber security issues.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Social Studies 10
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 10 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.