Pause, think, protect - Year 8

Students learn to identify fakes and deepfakes online and keep back ups of their files and photos.

pause, think, protect year 7-8 learning graphic

Lessons available: 12 - 31 October 2026

 

There are four lessons available for use in class in October 2026.

Year 8 students can learn about:

  1. Digital disguise: Explore strategies to identify fake user profiles online and make informed digital interactions.
  2. Save your data: Understand the importance of responsible data backup and assess effective methods for recovery.
  3. Detect AI fakes: Explore deepfake technology and use integrity to identify real and false media.
  4. Ethical AI: Evaluate the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), explore its purpose and consider related ethics.
Register now - lessons will be sent in Term 4 via email

Syllabus outcomes

NESA outcomes

PDHPE: PH4-SHW-01, PH4-IPS-01, PH4-SMI-01, PH4- SHP-01, PH4-RRL-01, PH4-IBC-01 

Digital Technologies (Sci &Tech K–6): TE4-SAF-01, TE4-DIG-01

Australian curriculum

Practising digital safety and wellbeing - Manage online safety

Identify online abuse and bullying and report them to trusted adults, appropriate authorities and in online tools

Digital Technologies

AC9HP8P04: examine the roles of respect, empathy, power and coercion in developing respectful relationships

AC9HP8P08: explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent

AC9TDI8P12: select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects

General capabilities V9.0

Personal and Social capability

Self-awareness:

  • Personal awareness
  • Emotional awareness R
  • Reflective practice

Self-management:

  • Goal setting
  • Emotional regulation
  • Perseverance and adaptability

Social awareness:

  • Empathy
  • Relational awareness
  • Community awareness

Social management:

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Decision-making
  • Conflict resolution

Digital Literacy

Practising digital safety and wellbeing:

  • Manage online safety
  • Mange digital privacy and identity

Creating and exchanging:

  • Respect intellectual property

Managing and operating:

  • Manage content
  • Protect content
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