Overall Expectations:
GCO 1 – Students will understand technological operations and concepts.
Specific Expectations:
1.4 Students will communicate information and ideas using a variety of multimedia.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Comic Book Characters
- Editing Emotions
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Media Kids
- Mirror Image
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Police in the Media
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- The Anatomy of Cool
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- Writing a Newspaper Article
Overall Expectations:
GCO 2 – Students will practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Specific Expectations:
2.4 Students will investigate and demonstrate the relationship between technology and society.
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers
Overall Expectations:
GCO 3 – Students will practice responsible citizenship.
Specific Expectations:
3.1 Students will demonstrate an awareness of human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology
3.2 Students will practice safe, legal, and ethical use of technology.
3.4 Students will interact, collaborate, and publish using technology respective of copyright.
3.5 Students will understand the concept of, and demonstrate appropriate decision making with regards to, “Digital Footprint”
MediaSmarts Resources
- A Day in the Life of the Jos (Licensed Resource)
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Calling Out Versus Calling In
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Getting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Just a Joke? Helping Youth Respond to Casual Prejudice
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Playing With Privacy
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- Social Smarts: Nothing Personal!
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Where’s The Line? Online Safety Lesson Plan for School Resource Officers