This outcome chart contains Media literacy learning expectations from the Alberta social studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.

Dimensions of Thinking
Students will: Develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking: analyze the validity of information based on context, bias, source, objectivity, evidence and reliability to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue evaluate ideas, information and positions from multiple perspectives demonstrate the ability to analyze local and current affairs access diverse viewpoints on particular topics by using appropriate technologies	Lessons Activity One: Looking Through the Lenses - Lesson Activity Two: Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development - Lesson Activity Three: Adjusting the Focus - Lesson Stereotyping and Bias - Lesson Elections and the Media - Lesson How to Analyse the News - Lesson    Perceptions of Youth and Crime - lesson   Perceptions of Race and Crime - lesson News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction Definitions and Comments about the News The Newspaper Front Page Radio News Summative Activities Teachable Moments Hurricane Katrina    MNet Specail Initiatives Allies and Aliens
Citizenship
It is expected that students will: appreciate that membership in a society affects individual rights and freedoms value the ideals of democratic citizenship	Lessons Cyber Bullying and Civic Participation Cyber Bullying and the Law (Grades 7 - 8) Understanding Cyber Bullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
Research for Deliberative Inquiry
Students will: Apply research processes: determine how information serves a variety of purposes and that the accuracy or relevance of information may need verification   practise the responsible and ethical use of information and technology plan and conduct a search, using a wide variety of electronic sources	Deconstructing Web Pages - Lesson ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking - Lesson Privacy and the Internet Thinking About Hate - Lesson What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy - Lesson Teachable Moments Hurricane Katrina and the "Two-Photo Controversy" Hurricane Katrina and the Internet A Tale of Two Cities - Teachable Moment MNet Specail Initiatives Allies and Aliens Jo Fool or Jo Cool - For Teachers
Communication
Students will: Develop skills of media literacy: examine techniques used to enhance the authority and authenticity of media messages examine the values, lifestyles and points of view represented in a media message analyze the impact of television, the Internet, radio and print media on a particular current affairs issue	A Day in the Life - Lesson Stereotyping and Bias - Lesson Elections and the Media - Lesson How to Analyse the News - Lesson  News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum - Lesson   Media Literacy for Development & Children’s Rights- lesson  Perceptions of Youth and Crime - lesson   Perceptions of Race and Crime - lesson News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction Definitions and Comments about the News The Newspaper Front Page Radio News Summative Activities Teachable Moments Hurricane Katrina    Earth Day    The Mediated Communications of News and War Photographic Truth in the Digital Era - Teachable Moment MNet Specail Initiatives Allies and Aliens