L'École branchée, un organisme à but non lucratif
ADVERTISEMENT
0.00 $

No products in the cart.

The Media Awareness Network launches a tool to help teens become savvy and safe cyber-citizens

Ottawa - The Media Awareness Network (The Network) is today launching the MyUniverse resource: a digital literacy tutorial for high school students. This interactive tool will captivate teens while helping them develop their critical thinking skills to put it to good use during their online activities.

Published on :

ADVERTISEMENT

Ottawa - The Media Awareness Network (The Network) is launching the resource today MyUniverse: a digital literacy tutorial for high school students. This interactive tool will captivate teens while helping them develop their critical thinking skills to put it to good use during their online activities.

My world was created with financial support from the Inukshuk Wireless Learning Plan and TELUS. This resource simulates the digital environments and the situations that our young Internet users encounter on a daily basis on the Internet. Students will navigate popular environments such as search engines, instant messengers, social networking sites, and file sharing. Through practice, they will develop their skills and be guided to make the right choices online; they will then be able to put this new knowledge into practice in their daily activities on the Net.

“In Canada, young people are more and more inclined to live their daily lives online; but they don't necessarily know how to deal with - or avoid - the dark side of the virtual world that can plague their online activities, says Jane Tallim, co-executive director of the Network. My world is a sham of their online experiences so that they learn to deal with these situations, assess their risks and meet the challenges that threaten them on the Internet from the comfort and safety of the classroom. "

In order to account for the complexity of the online activities of our teens, the students who indulge in the game My world are called upon to take on a variety of roles - student, friend, peer and mentor. They use digital tools to do homework, manage relationships, conduct research on topics of personal interest, and engage in social activism.

My world is the counterpart of Internet passport, the highly acclaimed interactive tutorial that teaches digital literacy to students in Grades 4 through 8. Internet passportis now present across the country since each province and territory holds the license.

For more information on My world, visit:http://www.education-medias.ca/francais/catalogue/descriptions/monunivers.cfm

About the Author

École branchée
École branchée
The École branchée, a non-profit organization, is your professional development partner in connection with digital competence in education. We believe that education must be able to benefit from current educational and technological advances to better meet the increasingly diverse needs of learners and promote their success, today and for the rest of their lives. We work there through our professional information services, continuing education and the creation of educational tools.

Your comments

To comment on this topic and add your ideas, we invite you to follow us on social networks. All articles are published there and it is also possible to comment directly on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Do you have news to share with us or would you like to publish a testimonial?

Publicize your educational project or share your ideas via our Opinion, Testimonials or Press Releases sections! Here's how to do it!

Receive the Weekly Newsletter

Get our Info #DevProf and l'Hebdo so you don't miss out on anything new at École branchée!


You might also like:

Evaluating the quality of a website can be taught!

Telling students that they must validate the reliability of their sources when doing research is not enough. You still have to teach them how to do it! To help you support them, here are nine criteria that help determine a credible source on the Web.

12 concrete tips to get started in critical thinking education

“Education in critical thinking is not education in doubt, but in well-calibrated confidence, adjusted to the quality of the information available and to knowledge. Here are 12 concrete tips for teaching critical thinking in the classroom.

Resources for Media Literacy Week

Until October 31, World Media and Information Literacy Week (#SemEduMedias) emphasizes the importance of developing skills and keen critical thinking to better understand the information to which we are continually exposed. Here are some great educational ideas on the subject to mark the week!

The lessons of summer 2020 to remember for education

[In the eye of the director] From the beaches of the Gaspé to the explosion in Beirut, including conspiracy theories when it comes to COVID-19, recent events which reflect, for the most part, a change in our society. What if we learned lessons to change education in turn?