Overall Expectations:
Self-directed learning involves becoming aware of and managing one’s own process of learning. It includes developing dispositions that support motivation, self-regulation, perseverance, adaptability, and resilience. It also calls for a growth mindset – a belief in one’s ability to learn – combined with the use of strategies for planning, reflecting on, and monitoring progress towards one’s goals, and reviewing potential next steps, strategies, and results. Self-reflection and thinking about thinking (metacognition) support lifelong learning, adaptive capacity, well-being, and the ability to transfer learning in an ever-changing world
Specific Expectations:
Students develop a sense of identity in the context of Canada’s various and diverse communities.
Students cultivate emotional intelligence to better understand themselves and others and build healthy relationships.
Students become managers of the various aspects of their lives – cognitive, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual – to enhance their mental health and overall well-being.
MediaSmarts Resources
K-3
- Break the Fake: What’s in the Frame?
- Favourite Sports and Athletes
- Finding Balance in Our Digital Lives
- Internet Time Capsule
- Representing Ourselves Online
- Rules of the Game
- So Many Choices!
4-6
- “He Shoots, He Scores”: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Avatars and Body Image
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Empathy
- Game Time
- Girls and Boys on Television
- Humour on Television
- Introduction to Ethics: Avatars and Identity
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 2: Media are constructions
- Put Downs
- Reporter For a Day
- Sheroes and Heroes - Lesson
- The Constructed World of Television Families
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6
- Understanding the Internet Lesson 4: Communication and Social Media
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
7-8
- Activity One: Looking Through the Lenses - Lesson
- Activity Three: Adjusting the Focus - Lesson
- Allies and Aliens
- Behaving Ethically Online: Ethics and Values
- Comic Book Characters
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Female Action Heroes
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Image Gap
- Images of Learning
- Media literacy for development: Children’s rights
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Downs
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- What’s in a Word?
9-12
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Alcohol on the Web
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Gambling in the Media
- Gender and Tobacco
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- Online Gambling and Youth
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: My Virtual Life
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Setting the Record Straight: Authenticating Mental Health Information Online
- Setting the Record Straight: Public Service Announcements on Mental Health
- Sex in Advertising
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- The Price of Happiness
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- Thinking Like a Citizen
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies