«There are
few curricular outcomes more crucial thanmedia literacy,» says Patrick Cartlidge, a teacher of Englishand media studiesin Toronto anda member of hisdistrict's schoolboard.
Teaching students how to learn, problem solve, collaborate and communicate?monitor their learning effectively is as important, if not more important than
curricular outcomes in terms of 21st learning skills.
Recent and very prominent failures in mobile device deployment in the US came about from a lack of vision and planning by the learning authority as to the purpose of the programme and, more importantly, a complete lack of sustained, regular staff training focused on
meaningful curricular outcomes.
Our departments got together in small teams and examine not only our Standard documents, but also
other curricular outcomes, such as IB aims.
This section provides detailed information on the status of media education for each province and territory, information on provincial / territorial media education organizations, and a listing of media
education curricular outcomes, by grade, with links to supporting MediaSmarts resources.
Program outcomes may be expressed in the form of overall program goals, end - of program outcomes,
curricular outcomes, and / or faculty outcomes.»