My Media Use: A Personal Challenge: Media Balance and Wellbeing

Most of us use a lot of digital media in our daily lives—even when we don't realise it! Having a balance between online and offline time is important, but healthy media balance might look different for everyone. Help learners create a personalised plan for healthy media use.

Objectives:

• Make an inventory of their media choices and how those choices make them feel.

• Brainstorm personal strategies for balancing media use.

• Create personal guidelines for promoting healthy media balance.

The Power of a Digital Footprint: Digital Footprint and Identity

Our digital footprints can impact our future. What others find about us online shapes how they see us or feel about us. Help your learners learn about their digital footprint and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see about them online.

Objectives:

• Define the term "digital footprint" and explain how it can affect their online privacy.

• Analyse how different parts of their digital footprint can lead others to draw conclusions -- both positive and negative -- about who they are.

• Use the "Take a Stand" thinking routine to examine a dilemma about digital footprints.

Upstanders and Allies: Taking Action Against Cyberbullying 

When cyberbullying happens, everyone involved brings their own perspective to the situation. Help learners learn about the importance of empathy, how to consider others' feelings and how to be an upstander when cyberbullying occurs.

Objectives:

• Consider the different perspectives of those involved in a cyberbullying incident.

• Identify ways to be an upstander or ally to someone being bullied.

• Problem-solve potential challenges of responding to cyberbullying.

Big Big Date - Proivicy and Security 

Every time we go online, we're giving away information about ourselves. But just how much data are companies collecting from us? Hint: It's probably a lot more than we realise. Show your learners these three tips on how to limit the data that companies collect.

Objectives:

• Explain why information about them and their behaviours is valuable to companies.

• Analyse how certain types of data are used by companies.

• Learn three strategies to limit individual data collection by companies.

My Social Media Life: Relationships and communication

For most children and young people, being on social media can mean connecting with friends, sharing pictures and keeping up to date. But it can also mean big distractions, social pressures and more. Help learners navigate the different feelings they may already be experiencing on social media.

Objectives:

• Identify the role of social media in their lives.

• Reflect on the positive and negative effects social media use has on their relationships.

• Recognise red flag feelings when using social media and use the "Feelings & Options" thinking routine to consider ways to handle them.

Copyright ad Fairdealing: News and Media Literacy 

Children and young people can be voracious consumers -- and creators -- of media, and it's easier than ever for them to find and share digital content online. But do they know about concepts like fair dealing, UK copyright law and public domain? Give learners a framework they can use to better understand how fair dealing works in the real world.

Objectives:

• Define the terms copyright, public domain and fair dealing.

• Identify the purpose of the four exceptions of fair dealing.

• Apply fair dealing to real-world examples, making a case for or against.