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Reflect on the Whole Course

You revisit your initial confidence card across five areas of digital media literacy and mark current levels honestly. You compare these with your starting point to identify changes before naming one habit to maintain.

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    1 - Start ~4 mins

    Illustration for StartYou have planned, built, referenced, packaged and presented your Student Project. Today is not about producing anything new. You go back to the confidence card you filled in near the start, mark it again honestly, and notice what has actually changed for you. By the end you will name one habit from this course you intend to keep.

    2 - Examine and Discuss ~5 mins

    Illustration for Examine and discussNear the start of this course you filled in a confidence card across five areas. Same green (confident), amber (getting there) or red (not yet) as before. Today you mark now, not then.

    • Safe use: looking after yourself and others online
    • Searching: precise search terms and reading results critically
    • Spotting dodgy content: reliability, bias, fake or twisted info
    • Creating: making digital media of your own
    • Sharing and publishing: credit, rights, publish safely
    Key point

    The five areas cover the four strands you have worked through. You do not need to rename them. The question for today is simple and honest: what can you do now that you could not do then, and what stayed the same?

    3 - Hands-on: Re-mark Your Confidence Card ~12 mins

    Tip

    Return to the five areas and mark yourself again. Be honest. Nobody is graded on this.

    1. If you still have your original confidence card, open it. If you do not, recreate the five areas on a fresh page: safe use, searching, spotting dodgy content, creating, sharing and publishing.
    2. For each area, mark how you feel now: green (confident), amber (getting there) or red (not yet).
    3. Write a real example beside the area that changed most. One concrete sentence is enough (for example: "I can tell sponsored influencer content from genuine recommendation" or "I keep a source log when I borrow images"). If you have time, add one example beside an area that stayed the same.
    4. If you have your original card, put the old mark and the new mark side by side. Note which areas moved and which stayed the same.
    5. Across the five areas, what is the single biggest change in what you can do, or the clearest thing that stayed the same, and why? Write one sentence for yourself only.
    6. Write one habit from this course you will keep on your own time, when nobody is setting the task. One concrete action is enough (for example: pause before sharing, credit the source, check one other source, use a reporting tool, note AI help honestly).

    Save your re-marked card and your habit the class way so you have a record of where you finished.

    4 - What Changed for Us ~10 mins

    Now pull the class picture together without turning anyone's private card into a public score.

    1. In pairs, each person names one area that moved (or stayed the same for a clear reason) and reads their one concrete example. The partner's job is only to listen and ask one clarifying question if needed.
    2. As a class, we build two lists on the board: What changed most for us and What we still want to get better at. Offer your example only if you are happy to share it. Patterns matter more than names.
    3. Look at the board. Which area shows up most under "changed most"? Which shows up most under "still want to get better at"? There is no right pattern. Different classes finish in different places.
    Tip

    If the board is thin, start from two safe patterns (for example: spotting sponsored posts; still rushing when something winds you up) and ask who had something similar.

    Key point

    Before you finish, check: you have shared one honest example with a partner, and the class board shows a shared picture of growth and of open gaps, built from students' own words.

    5 - Make Sense ~3 mins

    Look at your two marks side by side (or your now-mark and what you remember from the start). Progress can be a colour change, a sharper example, a clearer limit, or an honest amber where you once guessed green.

    Under your biggest-change sentence, write one more line: what your two marks actually show (including if little moved). Keep it for yourself; you do not have to read it out.

    Key point

    The useful question is not "did I finish perfect?" but "what can I actually do, and what will I keep doing when nobody is setting the task?" That is what your habit line is for.

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