Developing Thinking

Overall Expectations

Understand, value, and care for oneself (intellectually, emotionally, physically, spiritually)

Understand, value, and care for others

Understand and value social, economic, and environmental interdependence and sustainability

Specific Expectations

• Recognize that cultural and linguistic backgrounds, norms, and experiences influence identity, beliefs, values, and behaviours
• Develop skills, understandings, and confidence to make conscious
• Learn about various peoples and cultures
• Recognize and respect that people have values and worldviews that may or may not align with one’s own values and beliefs
• Analyze how one’s thinking, choices, and behaviours affect living and non-living things, now and in the future
  essons

Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate (Grades 7-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students (Licensed Resource)

Overall Expectations

Construct knowledge related to various literacies
Explore and interpret the world using various literacies

Express understanding and communicate meaning using various literacies

Specific Expectations

• Acknowledge the importance of multiple literacies in everyday life
• Understand that literacies can involve words, images, numbers, sounds, movements, and other representations and that these can have different interpretations and meanings
• Examine the interrelationships between literacies and knowledge, culture, and values
• Evaluate the ideas and information found in a variety of sources (e.g., people, databases, natural and constructed environments)
• Access and use appropriate technologies to investigate ideas and deepen understanding in all areas of study.
• Inquire and make sense of ideas and experiences using a variety of strategies, perspectives, resources, and technologies
• Select and critically evaluate information sources and tools (including digital) based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
• Use various literacies to challenge and question understandings and interpretations
• Interpret qualitative and quantitative data (including personally collected data) found in textual, aural, and visual information gathered from various media sources
• Use ideas and technologies in ways that contribute to creating new insight.
• Create, compute, and communicate using a variety of materials, strategies, and technologies to express understanding of ideas and experiences
• Respond responsibly and ethically to others using various literacies
• Determine and use the languages, concepts, and processes that are particular to a discipline when developing ideas and presentations
• Communicate ideas, experiences, and information in ways that are inclusive, understandable, and useful to others
• Select and use appropriate technologies in order to communicate effectively and ethically.
  

Lessons

Packaging Tricks (Kindergarten)

Looking At Food Advertising (primary/junior)

Reporter For a Day (Grades 4-6)

Junk Food Jungle (Grades 4-6)

Writing a Newspaper Article (Grades 4-6)

Looks Good Enough to Eat (Grades 5-7)

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine (Grades 6-8)

Deconstructing Web Pages (Grades 7-10)

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads (Grades 7-10)

Privacy and Internet Life (Grades 7-10)

Video Production of a Newscast (Grades 7-10)

I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information (Grades 7-9)

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues (Grades 7-12)

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?  You Decide! (Grades 10-11)

Taming the Wild Wiki (Grades 7-9)

Thinking About Hate (Grades 8-10)

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking (Grades 8-10)

Camera Shots (Grades 9-12)

Scripting a Crime Drama (Grades 9-12)

Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media (Grades 9-10)

The Privacy Dilemma (Grades 9-12)

Magazine Production (Grades 11-12)

Making Media for Democratic Citizenship (Grades 11-12)

Scripting a Crime Drama (Grades 11-12)

Educational Games

Co-Co's AdverSmarts: An Interactive Unit on Food Marketing on the Web
(Ages 5-8)

CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs
(Ages 9-12)

Jo Fool or Jo Cool: Interactive Module and Quiz on Critical Thinking for the Internet (Grades 6-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) [Licensed Resource]

Overall Expectations

Use moral reasoning process

Understand, value, and care for others

Understand and value social, economic, and environmental interdependence and sustainability

Take social action

Specific Expectations

• Evaluate the possible consequences of a course of action on self, others, and the environment in a particular situation
• Consider the implications of a course of action when applied to other situations
• Consistently apply fundamental moral values such as “respect for all”
• Demonstrate a principle-based approach to moral reasoning
• Examine how values and principles have been and continue to be used by persons and cultures to guide conduct and behaviour.
• Demonstrate respect for and commitment to human rights, treaty rights, and environmental sustainability
• Support individuals in making contributions toward achieving a goal
• Take responsible action to change perceived inequities or injustice for self and others.
  

Lessons

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet (Grades 2-5)

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses (Grades 2-5)

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks (Grades 2-5)

Introduction to Cyberbullying: Avatars and Identity (Grades 5-6)

Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy (Grades 6-9)

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques (Grades 6-9)

Cyberbullying and Civic Participation (Grades 7-8)

Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 7-8)

Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics (Grades 7-9)

Taming the Wild Wiki (Grades 7-9)

Thinking Like a Citizen (Grades 7-9)

Deconstructing Web Pages (Grades 7-10)

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development (Grades 7-12)

Buy Nothing Day (Grades 7-12)

Celebrities and World Issues (Grades 7-12)

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking (Grades 8-10)

Thinking About Hate (Grades 8-10)

Alcohol on the Web (Grades 9-10)

Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media (Grades 9-10)

Cyberbullying and the Law (Grades 9-12)

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! (Grades 10-11)

Challenging Hate (Grades 10-12)

Free Speech Versus the Internet (Grades 10-12)

Propaganda Techniques on Hate Sites (Grades 10-12)

Understanding Online Hate (Grades 10-12)

Privacy in the Information Age (Grades 11-12)

The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising (Grades 11-12)

Educational Games

CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of The Three CyberPigs
(Ages 9-12)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) [Licensed Resource]