Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Applied Technologies
- Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems and evaluate their suitability for the task at hand
- Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
- Analyze the role and personal, interpersonal, social, and environmental impacts of technologies in societal change
- Examine how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Art Exchange
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Online Cultures and Values
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Remixing Media
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting