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Reflect on the Whole Course

Students go back to the evidence card they filled in at the start of the course, mark the same five areas again, honestly, and check their two goals. They compare now with then to see what has changed, then name one habit to keep.

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    1 - Start ~4 mins

    Illustration for StartYou have planned, made and presented a big project, and you listed where your information came from. Today you will not make anything new. Near the start of the course, in the lesson What You Already Know About Digital Media, you filled in an evidence card: five areas marked green, amber or red, and two goals for the course. Today you will find that card, mark the same five areas again, honestly, check your two goals and see what has changed. At the end you will choose one habit from this course to keep.

    2 - Examine and Discuss ~5 mins

    Illustration for Examine and discussSoon you will mark these five areas again. Use the same three colours as on your evidence card: green if you can do it, amber if you can do part of it, and red if you cannot do it yet. This time you are marking what you can do now.

    • Safe use: looking after yourself and others online
    • Searching: using exact search words and judging the results
    • Spotting dodgy content: telling whether something can be trusted, or whether it is biased (unfairly one-sided), fake or twisted
    • Sharing: giving credit, respecting rights and publishing safely
    • Creating: making your own digital media
    Key point

    Ask yourself what you can do now that you could not do at the start, and what has stayed the same.

    3 - Hands-on: Then and Now ~12 mins

    Tip

    Be honest, because nobody is graded on this.

    1. Find your evidence card, in the place where your class keeps its work. If you cannot find it, you can still do this from what you remember of the start of the course.
    2. Set out your then-and-now card. Use the printed one if your teacher gives you one, or write the five areas down a new page with three columns beside them: Then, Now and Example.
    3. In the Then column, copy each colour from your evidence card. In the Now column, mark what you can do now in each area: green, amber or red.
    4. Beside the area that changed most, or any area if none changed, write one sentence giving a real example. For example, you could write "I can tell when an influencer has been paid to post about something." If you have time, add an example beside another area.
    5. Look at the two goals on your evidence card. Beside each one, write met, partly or not yet.
    6. Write one sentence, just for yourself, about the biggest change in what you can do and why. If little changed, write about something that stayed the same instead.
    7. Write one habit from this course that you will keep when nobody is setting the task. Make it one real thing you will do, such as pausing before you share something, checking a second source, or saying honestly when AI has helped you.
    An example then-and-now card. Five areas with a Then mark and a Now mark in green, amber or red: Safe use, green then green. Searching, amber then green. Spotting dodgy content, amber then green, with the example: I can tell when an influencer has been paid to post about something. Sharing, red then amber. Creating, amber then amber. Two goals, one marked met and one marked partly. One habit: pausing before I share something.

    Save your card and habit the class way, in the place where your class keeps its work.

    4 - What Changed for Us ~10 mins

    1. With a partner, take turns to name one area where your colour changed, or one where it stayed the same and why, and read your example. Your partner listens and may ask one question.
    2. As a class, you will build two lists on the board: What changed most for us and What we still want to get better at. Only share your example if you are happy to.
    3. Look at the board and see which area comes up most in each list. There is no right answer.
    Tip

    If you are stuck, two examples that often come up are getting better at spotting sponsored posts and still rushing to react when something annoys you.

    A classroom board with two lists. What changed most for us: spotting sponsored posts, shorter searches that still work, crediting what we reuse. What we still want to get better at: rushing to react when something annoys us, telling when a picture has been changed. Each line names its area. An example: your class's own words go on your board.
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