After five fascinating years, we are closing our doors. Here are some things we've learnt... Since 2017, we at The Digital Life Skills Company CIC have been researching and teaching Digital Information Literacy (DIL) skills to children, young people and - more recently - adults. Through interactive workshops and webinars we’ve shown pupils, parents, adult [...]
The misinformation myths every school needs to bust In the five years we’ve been teaching children and teens how to evaluate digital information, we have found pupils using a variety of evaluation techniques that simply don't work. Some of this is down to our very human biases and some down to misguided approaches being used [...]
Get media savvy - 12 habits every family should adopt Although young people are often seen as 'digital natives', they - like other age groups - struggle to tell fact from fiction online. Research by the National Literacy Trust and Ofcom tells us that: Only 2% of young people have the skills to tell if [...]
Together for a better internet. Safer Internet Day on 9th February 2021 was embraced by schools all over the country as home learning, mostly online, continued. There were none of the normal drop down days or school visits from the Digital Life Skills Company. But we were able to deliver our online webinar 'Is that [...]
Help your kids tell fact from fiction online. We've launched a new webinar for parents (grandparents, carers, aunts and uncles etc.) to help children spot misinformation in their newsfeeds, searches and social media. The pandemic has shown us how vitally important it is to know a trusted source and recognise 'clickbait'. Youngsters are often seen [...]
Do your pupils know how to discern fact from fiction? Google answers 11 million questions from UK schoolchildren every day1. More than half completely trust or 'don’t consider' the reliability of the information2. KS3 teachers and senior school leaders are invited to a FREE 2-hour online workshop to help develop classroom resources and learn simple [...]
The latest figures from OFCOM's 'Children's Media Use & Attitudes' survey are due to be published in February. They're expected to show that an increasing number of young people get their news online, but that fewer of them can tell fact from fiction. It's becoming harder for children - and adults - to recognise misinformation [...]
Should democracies embrace or fear social media and new online platforms? That's the question the Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies has been considering. Led by Lord Puttnam it called for evidence on the impact on political campaigning, the electoral process, our understanding of the truth and public's wider engagement with politics and political [...]
In the lead up to an election political misinformation and disinformation are widespread online. What advice can we give young people - soon to be voters - about accessing reliable information? These tips will help equip them - and all of us - to make informed decisions. Find the source Don’t trust something just because [...]
With a snap election looking highly probable and the volume of online misinformation seen during the 2017 General Election set to continue, how can we ensure the electorate is making well-informed voting decisions? Our co-founder, Shelley Metcalfe spoke recently at TEDx Macclesfield about the cost of careless clicks, how we are all part of the problem [...]