Intermediate
60 mins
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Unit 1 Recap: Becoming a Critical Reader of the Internet

Rate your Unit 1 critical-reading skills with real evidence from your KA1 pack and templates. Choose one specific online-reading habit to change, write Reflective Journal Entry 5, and practise saying that habit aloud from short notes.

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    1 - Getting Started ~5 mins

    Unit 1 is done. You have worked on digital identity, workplace rules, bias, AI answers, and the six checks on real websites for KA1.

    Those six checks are authenticity, authorship, bias, objectivity, accuracy, and purpose. Keep them in mind today as you rate past work, write Reflective Journal Entry 5 on one habit you will change when you read online, then say that habit out loud from short notes.

    2 - What a Good Entry Does ~7 mins

    Key point

    A strong habit entry names one change, says why it matters, and points at real work you already did. It is not a list of everything you learnt.

    What the entry needsWhat that looks like
    One keepable changeStopping before you share until you know the author
    Why it mattersThat check would have saved half an hour of rewriting
    Proof from your own workA template cell, a bias mark-up, an AI comparison, or your KA1 note

    Read this short model:

    Example

    "When I started the website pack I opened the first result and trusted the headline. On my second template I noticed the page had no named author and no date, so I left it out of my synthesis. From now on I will not use a page until I can name who wrote it and when it was last updated. That one check would have saved me half an hour of rewriting."

    One habit. Evidence from real work. That is the shape.

    3 - Look Back ~12 mins

    Tip

    Have your KA1 pack and unit templates open before you rate. If your KA1 pack is missing, use your other Unit 1 work instead: your bias mark-up, your AI comparison or your practice website template.

    Unit 1 six checks (the same list as your KA1 pack): authenticity, authorship, bias, objectivity, accuracy, purpose.

    Key point

    Rate yourself on these four skills from Unit 1. Give a short evidence note for each rating from work you actually did: a template, a bias mark-up, an AI comparison, or a research note. Then say which skill is strongest and which still needs work. You will use that pair when you write Journal Entry 5.

    Where you stand after Unit 1

    4 - Write It ~24 mins

    Key point

    Write Reflective Journal Entry 5. Name one thing you will do differently when you read something online. Ground it in the self-check you just did. Aim for five to six sentences, then mark and redraft once.

    When you finish, copy the clean version into your Reflective Journal. In your Communication Portfolio note the filename m2_l40_journal_entry5_<your-initials>. (The short oral sign-off in the next step is a second, separate Portfolio note.)

    Journal Entry 5: one changed habit

    5 - Say It Out Loud ~7 mins

    Take the habit from Entry 5 and say it out loud to a partner from short notes, not a script. This is short practice for talking about your own work: speak the change, why it matters, and the bit of Unit 1 work that showed you needed it.

    Portfolio checklist

    Portfolio checklist for this lesson: (1) journal filename m2_l40_journal_entry5_<your-initials>; (2) oral sign-off filename m2_l40_habit_oral_<your-initials> with who heard you and when.

    Short turn on your habit change

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