Mythbusters

Free KS3 MythBusters Scheme of Work – Media & Digital Literacy (CS)

If you’re a CS teacher who remembers QCA KS3 Year 8 Unit 10: Information – reliability, validity and bias (or the Teach-ICT Myth Busters version), then:

- you deserve a medal for long service (!), and

- you’ll recognise that what goes around comes around — just without the helpful suggestion that pupils should “search CD-ROMs”.

Up-to-date KS3 MythBusters Scheme of Work (slides + worksheets) 

It ticks a lot of the boxes when it comes to media literacy as mentioned in the curriculum review.

It sits comfortably within KS3 Computer Science, but also aligns well with PSCHE.

Included:

• Information reliability

• How information spreads

• Fact, opinion & bias

• Fake news (disinformation, misinformation)

• Online information trust

• Investigating a claim

• From information to evidence

• Searching & prompting

• The hidden filter

AI helped in places...but this wasn’t a one-click job. A lot of human time went into it.

Hope it saves someone else a few evenings.

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