Developing the Skills, Strategies and Habits Needed to Succeed
Overall Expectations:
- Skills, Strategies, and Habits That Contribute to Success: Demonstrate an understanding of the skills, strategies, and habits that can contribute to success in the pursuit of educational and career/life opportunities and in the achievement of a healthy school/life/work balance
Specific Expectations:
A1.2 identify a range of strategies to help manage stress and achieve and maintain a healthy school/life/work balance, and explain how they have used such strategies in their lives so far and how they might apply them in the future
MediaSmarts Resources
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- MyWorld (licensed resource)
- Seeking Help
Exploring and Preparing for the World of Work
Overall Expectations:
B2. Preparing for Future Opportunities: develop a personal profile based on an exploration of their interests, values, skills, strengths, and needs, and examine the range of factors that can influence their future education and career/life opportunities
Specific Expectations:
B2.3 explain how digital media use and a social media presence can influence their education and career/life opportunities, while at the same time demonstrating an understanding of the importance of managing their personal information and protecting their privacy online
B2.4 analyse the role of networking, including traditional and online social networking, in exploring and securing education and career/life opportunities
MediaSmarts Resources
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- MyWorld (licensed resource)
- Online Cultures and Values
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Your Online Resume
Planning and Financial Management to Help Meet Postsecondary Goals
Overall Expectations:
C1. Creating a Postsecondary Plan. Develop a plan for their first postsecondary year, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace, and prepare a variety of materials for communicating their strengths and aspirations to prospective mentors, program administrators, employers, and/or investors.
Specific Expectations:
C1.2 develop a plan that identifies steps and strategies for working towards their initial postsecondary goal(s), addressing potential opportunities and challenges
C1.3 use effective and appropriate forms, media, and styles to communicate their skills, experience, and achievements to prospective mentors, program administrators, employers, community organizations, scholarship funders, or investors
MediaSmarts Resources
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- On the Loose: A Guide to Life Online for Post-Secondary Students
- You Be the Editor
- Your Online Resume
Overall Expectations:
C2. Budgeting and Financial Management. Demonstrate an understanding of responsible management of financial resources and of services available to support their financial literacy as they prepare a budget for their first postsecondary year
Specific Expectations:
C2.3 identify key considerations related to preparing a personal budget, and apply them in developing a budget for their first postsecondary year
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol on the Web
- Buy Nothing Day
- Gambling in the Media
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Online Gambling and Youth
- Selling Tobacco
- The Invisible Machine: Big Data and You
- The Price of Happiness