To make the most of the internet, children need to make smart decisions. Be Internet Legends by Google empowers younger children to use the web safely and wisely, so they can be confident explorers of the online world. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_ie
The Conspiracy Test is a gamified interactive platform to help increase healthy scepticism for conspiracy theories. Users can select a theory they think might be true, set a baseline of scepticism, and challenge themselves through a series of self-directed steps to increase their critical thinking score. This is a collaboration between the School of Thought
SMILES is a media literacy project containing lesson plans and videos to help young people combat fake information. Collaborating partners from the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium developed and tested innovative fake news interventions in secondary schools, led by teachers and librarians, to evaluate their effectiveness in tackling disinformation. Please click on the link below to
Childnet is a UK-based charity that aims to empower children, young people, and those who support them in their online lives, making the internet an enjoyable and safe place. There are over 60 resources available on their website that can be filtered by age group, topic and format of resource. Please click on the link
The Bad News Game is a game that exposes tactics and manipulation techniques (impersonation, emotion, polarization, conspiracy, discredit, trolling) that are used to mislead people and build up a following. Bad News works as a psychological “vaccine” against disinformation. According to the developers, by playing it, it builds cognitive resistance against common forms of manipulation that
Interland, developed by Google, is an interactive, online game that teaches kids aged between 7-12 the key lessons of internet safety. It explores four lands where children learn about sharing personal information, cyberbullying, what and who to trust online and spotting misleading information. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_ie/interland
Break the Fake is an educational resource developed by MediaSmarts, Canda’s Centre for Digital Media Literacy about mis/disinformation. It contains lesson plans, videos and quizzes for young people. MediaSmarts have many other media literacy resources that explore the online world. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://mediasmarts.ca/break-fake
This website from the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab brings together research and resources on inoculation theory applied to misinformation. It provides 3 games, explanatory videos and research explaining inoculation theory and how it helps build resistance against manipulation. Please click on the link below to access the content: Inoculation Science – Home