See below for Media Awareness Network’s professional development and in-class resources for media education and Internet literacy. The resources are available, through licensing, to: provincial/territorial departments, school districts and boards, national and regional library systems, post-secondary institutions, and individual schools.
FOR CLASSROOM USE
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
An interactive Internet literacy tutorial that helps students develop the critical thinking skills they need to apply to their online experiences.
Using simulations of the most popular Internet environments, this interactive resource teaches students about online safety, authenticating online information, recognizing online marketing ploys, protecting their privacy, managing online relationships and dealing with cyberbullying.
MyWorld: Student tutorial for digital literacy (Grades 9-12)
MyWorld will be available Fall 2010.
This interactive tutorial teaches students key digital literacy skills through a series of four thematically related chapters. MyWorld reflects teens' online experiences by providing a simulated online environment where students can move between search engines, social networking sites, instant messaging and other sites and services.
Each chapter provides a variety of tasks – some school-related, some personal – that teach students essential Internet literacy skills such as finding and authenticating online information, managing one's privacy and reputation online, handling online relationships and behaving ethically online.
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A presentation providing a brief overview of issues related to young people's online activities - safety, privacy, cyber-marketing, information authentication and ethical online behaviour.
This workshop is available to school-based parent organizations, libraries and community groups.
