Your Connected Life: A Teen’s Guide to Life Online
The Your Connected Life guide is designed to help students who are just entering high school balance the demands of their offline life with their digital one.
Resisting Stereotypes and Working for Change
Although many concerns remain about how gender represented in media, there are signs that things are changing. Roles for women on television, in particular, have become much more varied and complex in the last decade, ranging from the conflicted Star Wars hero Ahsoka to Marvel characters such as Echo and Ms. Marvel to more realistic characters like Never Have I Ever’s Devi, while a growing number of movies and TV shows are questioning narrow definitions of masculinity.
Advertising and Male Violence
To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.
Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - Health Education Grade 2
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Northwest Territories Grade 2 Health Education curriculum with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Physical Education and Wellness K-6
In the 2022 Elementary Physical Education and Wellness curriculum, digital media literacy is represented in several categories of knowledge, skills and procedures and understandings. Students learn about growth and development, safety, nutrition, mental health, healthy relationships and financial literacy.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Human Ecology 7
Clothing and Textiles
Overall Expectations:
GLO 2.2: Develop understanding of culture within clothing/textiles.
Specific Expectations:
5.2.2.1 Identify factors that influence clothing/ textile choices (e.g., family, peers, media, culture, role, environment, religious, social, ethical, economics).
Break the Fake: Becoming a Fact–Checker
This lesson is designed to help students determine the validity of information that is presented to them on the Internet. After reviewing a series of evaluation techniques for online resources, students form groups to assess selected websites.
English Language Arts Grades 10-12
In Prince Edward Island, “English language arts encompasses the experience, study, and appreciation of language, literature, media, and communication.” The curriculum defines a text as “any language event, whether oral, written, visual, or digital. In this sense, a conversation, a poem, a novel, an online exchange, a poster, a music video, or a multimedia production are all considered texts.
English Language Arts 7-9 Overview
In Prince Edward Island, “English language arts encompasses the experience, study, and appreciation of language, literature, media, and communication.” The curriculum defines a text as “any language event, whether oral, written, visual, or digital. In this sense, a conversation, a poem, a novel, an online exchange, a poster, a music video, or a multimedia production are all considered texts.