Media Awareness Network Launches Enhanced Web Site to Help Parents “Be Web Aware”

March 1, 2010, Ottawa - In honour of Calgary's Online Safety Week, Media Awareness Network (MNet) launched an enhanced Be Web Aware Web site today, to better reflect changes in digital media that have occurred in recent years.

The Be Web Aware site, which was originally developed in 2004, is an authoritative Canadian source of information on the benefits and the risks of the Internet for children and youth.

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Film and Television 11

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Explore and create

• Develop film or television projects for an intended audience or with an intended message
• Explore historical and contemporary Canadian film and television, and emerging media

Reason and reflect

Theatre Company 12

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

• Explore, design, and refine a range of productions in a theatre company
• Refine vocabulary, skills, and conventions through presentation or performance
• Create theatre productions collaboratively using a variety of methods
• Intentionally select and combine dramatic elements and conventions for an intended audience
• Take creative risks to express ideas, meaning, and intent

Reason and reflect

Everything is a house hippo

Remember the house hippo? The beloved mini creature who lived in Canadian homes? Or at least, that’s what we were told years ago as part of a Concerned Children's Advertisers campaign to help kids think critically about what they were seeing on TV.

Computer Science 110

Strand: Digital Technologies

Big Idea: Cybersecurity

Skill Descriptor:

Create plans to mitigate risks to systems through code and coding practices

Achievement Indicators:

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Broadcast Media 35S

Common Outcomes

Students will…

3. Assess textual, numerical, aural, and visual information, as well as the source of the media, to determine context, perspective, bias, and/or motive. (G-3.2)

4. Self-assess ICT representations and go beyond established criteria by enhancing meaning and/or artistry, according to topic, audience, purpose, and occasion. (Pr-3.2)

Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Web Development 10

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Media Design 11

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

• Engage in user-centered research and empathetic observation
• Participate in reciprocal relationships throughout the design process

Defining

Saskatchewan - Arts Education 30

K-12 Creative/Productive (CP) Goal: Students will inquire, create and communicate through dance, drama, music and visual art.

CP30.1 Investigate creative processes for producing arts expressions.

Indicators

a. Investigate inspiration and departure points for own artistic work.

b. Engage in creative processes to develop artistic projects individually or collaboratively (e.g., choreographic process, visual art-making process, music composition process, dramatic/theatrical process).

Social Studies 3-5

At this level, Social Studies “develops skills to ask questions about who decides what is significant enough to be studied, represented, and commemorated; how we know what we know; and what has changed and what has stayed the same.”

Connections to digital media literacy largely fall within the Civics strand, which focuses on government and governance and the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens.