Equip your students to navigate a world of misinformation, AI and algorithm bias. Young people are entering a digital world that demands more than just fact-checking. It requires curiosity, resilience, and critical thinking. This course goes beyond helping students to decode digital media, it invites them to reexamine their relationship with it.
Critical Digital, Media and AI Literacy is the ability to assess the credibility of online information and digital media content, and recognise and understand bias in media, algorithms, echo chambers and misinformation.
This course empowers students to move beyond passive media consumption toward critical, thoughtful, relational, and responsible digital engagement, helping students to discover for themselves the importance of these skills.
Students develop their own toolkit for critically analysing and engaging with content — going on to understand the ethics and responsibility of content creation, appreciate diverse perspectives and see how media shapes understanding of the world.
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Every lesson draws on Lyfta's curated storyworld collections — pairing a real human story with the lesson theme.
This course maps directly to PSHE, Citizenship and Computing across KS2, KS3 and KS4.
Students engage with real human experiences through Lyfta's interactive storyworlds. This method builds connection, curiosity, empathy, and real-world contextual understanding. It connects global issues to personal experiences, helping students see why digital literacy is essential in their own lives.
Self-Discovery of the Need for Digital Literacy
Instead of being told why media literacy matters, students uncover it themselves through interactive experiences and reflection. This approach fosters intrinsic motivation to engage critically with digital content.
Question-Driven Learning
Students develop their own framework of critical questions. They learn to interrogate content independently, with deeper questions, such as:
- Who created this media, and what were their intentions?
- What perspectives are missing?
- How do algorithms shape what I see?
This approach equips students with life-long critical skills, ensuring that digital literacy becomes an active and ongoing process, not a passive one-off lesson.
