Standard: Fostering Literacies to Empower Life-Long Learners
Theme: Digital Media Literacy and Citizenship
Growth Phase: Evolving
Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarian/LLC teacher teaches students how to use online information and digital media fluently and effectively as well as ethically and legally.
MediaSmarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy providing many teacher resources.
MediaSmarts (2014).
http://mediasmarts.ca/
The Copyright Officer and Head of the Copyright Office, University of Winnipeg Library, Manitoba, provides background and current information on copyright for schools and school LLCs.
Tooth, John. (2015). Copyright for schools and school libraries: A primer. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. https://books.google.ca/books?id=wm1SrgEACAAJ&dq=john+tooth+copyright&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y
The Council of Ministers of Education (CMEC) provides a comprehensive tool (available in English and French) to help Canadian teachers and teacher-librarians with compliant copyright practice.
Council of Ministers of Education (CMEC). (2016). Copyright Decision Tool. http://copyrightdecisiontool.ca/DecisionTool/
Council of Ministers of Education (CMEC), Council of Ministers of Education, Canada Canadian School Boards Association Canadian Teachers’ Federation. (2016). Copyright Matters!, 4th ed. Retrieved from http://cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/291/Copyright_Matters.pdf
Copyright Matters! Some Key Questions and Answers for Teachers, 4th ed. (PDF)
This Ontario secondary library VLC web page thoroughly supports student research through a variety of videos and prompts such as Google Search Skills videos, step-by-step research promts, videos for evaluating sites, poster and videos on academic integrity (plagiarism), and citations (APA and MLA).
Ridgemont Library. (2022). Research Skills. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/ocdsb.ca/ridgemontlibrary/home/research-skills