Speaking and Listening
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
Recognize that values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice can be reflected in spoken language
Examine how spoken language can be used to influence and manipulate
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Female Action Heroes
- Freedom to Smoke
- Hate or Debate?
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Alcohol Myths
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Introduction
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Radio News
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- The True Story
- Thinking About Hate
- Thinking Like a Citizen
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Violence in Sports
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
Educational Games
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Reading and Viewing
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
Specific Expectations
Evaluate the reliability of information from various sources
Compare information from a variety of sources
Use effective research approaches and strategies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Hate or Debate?
- Hate 2.0
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Scientific Detectives
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Thinking about Hate
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Educational Game
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
- MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
- A Day in the Life of the Jos
- Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre.
Specific Expectations
Recognize that texts can be biased
Demonstrate an awareness that values and personal experiences influence understanding of and critical responses to texts
Describe the portrayal of culture and reality in texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Cinema Cops
- Cop Shows
- Female Action Heroes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- How to Analyze the News
- Image Gap
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scapegoating and Othering
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- Truth or Money
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
- Put Your Best Face Forward
Educational Games
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
- MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
- A Day in the Life of the Jos
- Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy
Writing and Representing
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Specific Expectations
Choose the writing and representing strategies that help create a variety of texts
Use various technologies in communicating for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Cop Shows
- Hate or Debate?
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Violence and Video Games
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Put Downs
- Selling Tobacco
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Television News
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Price of Happiness
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- That’s Not Cool
- Put Your Best Face Forward
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)