Communicating, Inquiring, Decision Making and Problem Solving

C-3 Students will critically assess information accessed through the use of a variety of technologies.

• identify and distinguish points of view expressed in electronic sources on a particular topic
  
  
• recognize that information serves different purposes and that data from electronic sources may need to be verified to determine accuracy or relevance for the purpose used

Lessons

Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks

Introducing the Internet: Messages, Envelopes, Addresses

Introducing the Internet: Exploring the Internet

Activities

Research Relay

MNet Special Initiatives          

Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs

Foundational Operations, Knowledge and Concepts

F-2 Students will understand the role of technology as it applies to self, work and society.

• assess the personal significance of having limitless access to information provided by communication networks, such as the Internet
  
  
• describe, using examples, how communication and information networks, such as the telephone and the Internet, create a global community

F-3 Students will demonstrate a moral and ethical approach to the use of technology.

• comply with the acceptable use policy of the school and school authority for Internet and networked services, including software licensing agreements
  
  
• respect the privacy and products of others
  
  
• use electronic networks in an ethical manner
  
  
• comply with copyright legislation

F-4 Students will become discerning consumers of mass media and electronic information.

• recognize that graphics, video and sound enhance communication
  
  
• describe how the use of various texts and graphics can alter perception
  
  
• discuss how technology can be used to create special effects and/or to manipulate intent through the use of images and sound

Lessons

Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Tale of Two Cities

Deconstructing Web Pages

Protecting Your Privacy on the Internet

Joe Cool or Joe Fool

What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

Co-Co’s Adversmarts

Classroom Activities and Handouts

Internet Checklist for Kids: 9-12

Internet: Cyberhistory 101

Protecting Your Privacy on Commercial Web Sites

5 W's of Cyberspace

Backgrounders

Acceptable Use Policies

Evaluating Internet-Based Information:
A Goals-Based Approach

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

How To Discourage Plagiarism

MNet Special Initiatives

Cybersense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three  CyberPigs

Background information for teachers about the Internet and Internet issues can be found in the following Web Awareness Canada sections:

Teaching Kids to be Safe and Responsible Online

Kids for Sale: Online Marketing to Kids and Privacy Issues

Fact or Folly