Teach teens media literacy and critical thinking online
Download a set of free teaching media literacy and digital citizenship lessons and activities.
Six lessons, six valuable skills
Help young people to spot disinformation, recognise emotional language, check sources and read laterally, look for clues to spot AI-generated content, and to pause and share mindfully.
Each digital lesson presentation is scripted, ready to use – and customisable to choose your own appropriate examples.
Lesson Spotlight: Spotting emotional language
This helps secondary pupils recognise emotionally charged or manipulative language online — and understand why it's used to influence opinion rather than inform.
Through real headline examples, video analysis, and a rewriting exercise, students learn to separate emotional language from the facts underneath it.
"AI is actually really hard to tell apart from real things. I've got to be careful."
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The Be Internet Citizens curriculum builds on the Poynter Institute’s MediaWise and the Digital Inquiry Group.
It is adapted for the UK by Parent Zone.
