Health & Wellbeing
PSHE · Pioneers 11–15 · Year 8
Online life, media and money
Who profits from your attention?
0/6
What you will learn
- Analyse how algorithms, influencers and advertising shape choices
- Manage digital footprint, privacy settings and consent for images
- Budget, save and understand debt, interest and scams
- Evaluate a news story for reliability and bias
Helpful to know first: Digital wellbeing basics
Your next step: DiscoverGo
Discover
Think first: Who profits from your attention? Say or jot one idea before you read on.
Learn — core route
- Algorithm awareness lab
- Privacy settings audit
- Budget challenge
- Fact-check race
Lessons in this subject: Learn Topics · PSHE
Practise — check a common mix-up
Free apps are free.
A 0% deal never costs anything.
Apply / Create — Digital & Money Audit
Audit your own digital footprint and a month's budget; fact-check two viral stories; propose three changes with reasons.
Evidence type: project · accessible alternative always allowed (speak it, draw it, or show an adult).
How it is judged (rubric)
- Beginning: Completes audit
- Developing: Audit + budget
- Secure: Audit, budget, two fact-checks, justified changes
- Extending: Analyses systemic causes and influences others
Explain — say what you did
Review later
We'll offer a quick memory check in 7, 21 and 45 days. Mark this done and your Today page will remind you gently.
For grown-ups · framework mappings
- aligned to UK PSHE · KS3 Living in the wider world
- aligned to SEL frameworks · CASEL: responsible decision-making
Status: Live · reviewed
What's next?