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Activities›AI & Digital›Media & Info Check
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AI & Digital

Media & Info Check

Your child picks a piece of online content and figures out whether it is trustworthy. They check five reliability signals, look for real evidence, cross-check with a second source, and make a call: reliable, misleading, or unsure. The habit of pausing before believing or sharing.

Ages 9–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels

CommunicationCritical ThinkingDigital LiteracyEmotional Regulation

What's inside.

  • ✓Five-signal quick check for any content
  • ✓Evidence evaluation (strong vs. weak proof)
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What they are actually learning.

Your child runs a five-signal check on real content and decides whether it holds up. The technical part is checking sources and spotting what has been left out. The harder part is noticing that something was built to make them angry, and pausing anyway.

  • Critical Thinking: Questioning a claim even when the source looks entirely legitimate
  • Digital Literacy: Checking sources, reading for context, and noticing what is missing
  • Emotional Regulation: Pausing before reacting to content engineered to provoke
  • Communication: Explaining their reasoning calmly, with the evidence attached
Why it matters

Your kid will spend the rest of their life around AI. Whether they treat it like magic, an oracle, or a tool they direct is up to what you teach them now. This is the literacy that defines the next twenty years.

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