Quebec Competencies Chart - Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Quebec Competencies Chart - Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
The social media industry
The social media industry represents a profound transformation of the traditional media landscape, moving from hierarchical, one-way communication to decentralized, interactive digital networks.[1] Today’s dominant platforms are best defined as "two-sided platforms that primarily host user-generated content distributed via algorithms, while allowing for interactions among users.”[2] This highly interactive and networked environment has created immense wealth for the platform operators while simultaneously establishing
Outcome Chart - Ontario - Health and Physical Education Grade 1
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Grade 1 Health and Physical Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
“Mean girl” stereotype not supported in new national cyberbullying study
Ottawa, ON (March 18, 2014) – New national research indicates that Canadian youth face a range of mean and cruel online behaviours with varying degrees of seriousness and impact – with girls more likely than boys to be the recipients.
New Canadian research shows youth are thinking critically about the impacts of artificial intelligence
April 6, 2021
OTTAWA – A new Canadian report from MediaSmarts, Canada’s not-for-profit centre for digital literacy, calls for more algorithmic literacy tools and resources which will give youth the knowledge they need to protect themselves and their information online.
Privacy and Bullying
Despite their enthusiastic participation in social media, it’s a mistake to think that young people don’t care about privacy. MediaSmarts’ 2014 study Young Canadians in a Wired World, which surveyed over 5,000 students across Canada on their experiences with and attitudes towards digital media, found that they do have very strong feelings about their privacy, and take significant steps to control it.
Manitoba - Outcome Chart - Technologies, Topics and Trends 40S/40E/40M
Overall Expectations:
GLO 1.1: Demonstrate critical, creative, and innovative thinking.
Specific Expectations:
SLO 12A.1.1.2: Evaluate information and perspectives related to the thinking process.
SLO 12A.1.1.3: Evaluate patterns and connections related to critical, creative, and innovative thinking.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Healthy Living 8
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Healthy Living Grade 8
The gift of art in the age of AI
Original digital art takes patience and skill. While yes, you could ask ChatGPT to recreate something similar with the right prompt, it doesn’t come close to the heart or care that was put into this original artwork and it doesn’t quite look the same.
Facing Online Hate: Portal Page
Framed around key concepts of media literacy, the Facing Online Hate tutorial examines how the Internet is used to spread and incite hate, how radicalization occurs, and how youth encounter hate online both through traditional hate sites and “cultures of hatred”.