Big Ideas
Overall Expectations
Tools of Communication – Past, Present and Future
Specific Expectations
1.01 trace the evolution of communications technologies
1.03 identify and describe digital convergence in a variety of information and communications technologies
1.04 identify information and communications tools, systems and networks in daily use at home and in school
MediaSmarts Resources
- 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
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
Overall Expectations
Communications Tools in Everyday Use
Specific Expectations
- 1.05 work effectively in a variety of communications media
- 1.06 demonstrate understanding of how communications technologies are used to build new knowledge from existing information
- 1.07 demonstrate understanding of how communications technologies are used to create, modify and disseminate information
MediaSmarts Resources
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
Overall Expectations
Ownership and Copyright
Specific Expectations
1.18 identify the roles of ethical decision making and intellectual honesty as factors in making technological choices
MediaSmarts Resources