Make Digital Media Literacy Required Learning for K - 12
Children are the most vulnerable victims of disinformation and harmful messages. Digital media literacy skills have never been so necessary.
Canadian schools teach media literacy skills but not as a required part of the K - 12 curriculum. Other countries have made digital media literacy required learning. We need to do the same in our schools.
We can't control the sources or spread of harmful messages.
We can make sure they land on a well-informed audience.
CANADIAN RESIDENTS
Write to your provincial Ministry of Education
We've made it simple.
Urge your provincial education minister(s) to make digital media literacy classes a required part of the core curriculum for K - 12. Select your province from the menu above for key contacts and sample letters. Also, read the Open Letter to see what Canada's authors are doing to advocate for digital media literacy.
CANADIAN LITERARY COMMUNITY
Are you an author or poet ?
Sign the Open Letter
This is an additional initiative from the literary community to ask the Federal government for leadership, sustained funding, and a cohesive national strategy that encourages provincial education ministries to make media literacy a required component of the core curriculum in K - 12 classes. Read the Open Letter and add your signature.