Digital Citizenship and Safety · Impacts of Computing

Evaluating Online Content

Developing critical thinking skills to identify fake news, clickbait, and unreliable sources.

Key Questions

  1. 1What are the red flags that suggest a website might be untrustworthy?
  2. 2Why do some people create and spread false information online?
  3. 3How can we verify a fact by checking multiple independent sources?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS2: Computing - Online SafetyKS2: Computing - Digital Literacy
Year: Year 5
Subject: Computing
Unit: Digital Citizenship and Safety
Period: Impacts of Computing

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