New Brunswick - Civics 10
GCO 1: Students will investigate civic engagement
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 1.1 Students will explore the four domains of civic engagement
Concepts and content:
How do people use the formal political system to make change?
How do people work outside of the formal political system to make change?
What is civic agency?
Examples of active citizens
- What causes were they advocating for?
- In which domains did they operate?
What do you [students] care about? What are you passionate about?
Achievement Indicators:
I can analyze models for active citizenship through historical and contemporary case studies.
I can define civic agency.
I can demonstrate the ways that I have agency.
I can illustrate what motivates people to engage civically.
I can reflect on ways that I can get involved in a cause that I care about.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Challenging Hate Online
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Hate 2.0
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
GCO 3 Students will investigate decision-making and representation
Skill Descriptor:
SCO 3.3 Students will use data and media literacy to respond to issues of civic importance
Concepts and Content:
Topics may include:
Digital and media literacy
- Online verification
- Lateral reading
- Identifying and addressing bias
- Why is digital and media literacy necessary for sound civic decision-making?
Data literacy: the importance of data in decision making
- Sources of data: the census; news media; UNdata; Climate Data Canada, etc.
- Proportional reasoning, graph theory, and other mathematics skills for civic decision-making.
- Parameters of data collection: bias; use of language; ethics; cost; time and timing; privacy; cultural awareness.
- How data interpretation can influence decision making.
Are data objective? Can data be unbiased?
Introduction to research methods
- Qualitative and quantitative
Peer review
- Purpose for
- Process
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Break the Fake: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Consensus or Conspiracy?
- Crime in the News
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Images: Memes and Cartoons
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Watching the Elections
- Writing the News