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Reflect on the Whole Course

You revisit your initial confidence card across five areas of digital media literacy and mark current levels honestly. You compare these with your starting point to identify changes before naming one habit to maintain.

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    1 - Start ~4 mins

    Illustration for StartThis term you 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 you filled in a confidence card, marking five areas green, amber or red to show how sure you felt. Today you will mark them again, honestly, 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 discussUse the same colours as before, so green means confident, amber means getting there, and red means not yet. Mark how you feel 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
    • Creating: making your own digital media
    • Sharing and publishing: giving credit, respecting rights and publishing safely
    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: Re-mark Your Confidence Card ~12 mins

    Tip

    Be honest, because nobody is graded on this.

    1. If you still have your first confidence card, open it. If not, write the five areas on a new page.
    2. Mark how you feel now in each area: green, amber or red.
    3. 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.
    4. If you have your first card, compare the old and new marks to see which areas changed colour.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.

    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.

    5 - Make Sense ~3 mins

    Look at your old and new marks side by side, or at your new marks and what you remember from the start. Progress can mean a colour change or a clearer example. It can even mean changing a green to amber, if you guessed green at the start and now know there is more to learn.

    Under your sentence about the biggest change, write one more line about what your marks show. This line is just for you.

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