Financial Literacy 10

Financial Literacy 10 is a required course in the Core Curriculum.

Social Studies K-9

Many curricular expectations in B.C. Social Studies courses relate to media and digital literacy. The core historical and geographical thinking concepts include a consideration for evidence, perspectives, and ethics, all of which are required for teaching students to be digitally literate citizens. Thus, media and digital literacy skills and concepts can be found in  many of the Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and specific course content.

Shaw Communications commits to healthy kids in a digital world as a Platinum Sponsor of MediaSmarts

February 25, 2015 (Ottawa) – MediaSmarts, a leading Canadian centre for digital and media literacy, is pleased to welcome Shaw Communications Inc. as its first Platinum sponsor. The Platinum Sponsorship represents a $75,000 contribution in 2015 to the charitable organization.

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Working With Infants and Young Children 11 HPW3C

Outcome Chart - Ontario - Working With Infants and Young Children 11 HPW3C

Studio Arts 3D 12

Curricular Competencies

Explore and create

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Visual Arts 10

Creating, Making and Presenting

Overall Expectations:

GCO 1: explore, challenge, develop and express ideas using the skills, language, techniques and processes of the arts

Specific Expectations:

CM 1.2 assess and utilize the properties of various art media and their ability to convey intended meaning

CM 1.3 create a variety of interrelated artworks on themes found through direct observation, personal experience, and imagination

Visual Art 1202

Understanding and Connecting Contexts of Time, Place and Community

Overall Expectations:

GCO 3: Students will be expected to demonstrate critical awareness of and the value for the role of the arts in creating and reflecting culture

Specific Expectations:

I’m overwhelmed online. Now what?

I probably could, and maybe should, write about all of the social media changes we are seeing. The troubling updates to Meta’s content moderation policies and the removal of their fact-checking program, the complicated TikTok ban in the US, all of it.

Effective Debunking

Because social media makes us all broadcasters, we have a responsibility not just to avoid sharing misinformation but to take action when people in our network share it.

Family films part one – What we’re watching

I have a post coming soon about New Year’s resolutions, but first I wanted to write a little about one of our own. This year, I’ve resolved to watch more films. (Yes, more!) It might sound a little strange at a time when many of us are struggling to convince our own children to put down their devices and consume less screen time, but there it is.