Welcome to MediaSmarts’ guide for families on navigating TikTok safely! In this resource we provide insights and practical tips for parents, guardians, caregivers and teachers to ensure a secure and ...

Screen-Free Week is an annual event that traditionally takes place in May. Each year people from around the world make a conscious decision to turn off screens of all kinds for the week.

This lesson package is designed to be modular, allowing teachers to choose activities that are most relevant to their students. The recommended sequence is as follows: Minds On: Spotting Deepfakes (30 ...

Resilience Through DigitalSmarts: Digital Literacy for Survivors of Technology- Facilitated Violence is designed to provide digital media literacy resources for practitioners in the violence against ...

What we see – and don’t see – in media affects how we view reality. Media works can be imagined either as mirrors that reflect an audience’s own experience, windows that give them access to ...

In this lesson, students look at the different ways in which we spend our free time and learn to find balance between active, learning and media activities. They begin by distinguishing between Active ...

Production of this lesson has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. In this lesson, students explore a variety of anti-drinking and alcohol awareness campaigns in ...

Persons with disabilities might best be described, in the media at least, as an invisible minority: though a large segment of the population has a physical or mental disability they have been almost ...

In Canada, consumers have certain rights to use copyrighted material without permission or license from the owner of the copyright. These rights are defined in the ...

This Classroom Guide provides practical tools to help K-12 teachers make digital literacy a part of their classroom practice. The workshop is part of the Digital Literacy Training Program for Canadian ...

While MediaSmarts’ research shows that teachers place considerable importance on teaching their students digital literacy skills such as authenticating information, managing privacy, addressing ...

MediaSmarts is governed by an elected, volunteer Board of Directors, which includes representatives of leading media companies and stakeholder sectors, including education, libraries, and community ...