Media Awareness Network (MNet)

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Alberta students to acquire digital literacy skills through new online game

Media Awareness Network is pleased to announce Alberta Education has licensed its award-winning interactive game – Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8). The resource is now available to 1,800 elementary and middle schools in the province.

Press release
Passport to the Internet

How Canadian is CanCon?

Canadian content regulations have a significant impact on the types of programs made available in Canada. Some argue that these policies not only constrain programming choices that should be left to Canadian audiences, but undermine the ability of the Canadian broadcasting industry to compete with our American neighbors -- while others argue that these regulations serve a vital cultural imperative and are necessary to create a unique Canadian broadcasting industry that can compete on an international level.

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National Nutrition Month

National Nutrition Month, held in March, aims to raise public awareness of healthy eating and the importance of making informed food choices. MNet has a number of resources that help familiarize children and youth with the marketing techniques used in food advertising in the media, and the ways in which advertising can affect their food choices.

Co-Co's AdverSmarts: An Interactive Unit on Food Marketing on the Web (Ages 5-8)
Looking at Food Advertising (Primary/Junior)
Eating Under the Rainbow (Grades 1-3)
Junk Food Jungle (Grades 4-6)
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!: A Lesson in Junk Food Advertising (Grades 5-7)
Selling Obesity (Grades 7-10)

Media Education In Canada

Want to know the curricular outcomes for media literacy in your province or territory? Looking for lessons that support these outcomes? MNet has prepared comprehensive curriculum charts for Grades K-12 that highlight media education outcome requirements in each province and territory, and paired them with supporting MNet resources. Access them by region.