Kids don't respond to 'the internet is dangerous.' They respond to challenges, games, and feeling like the smartest person in the room. This session is designed to make digital safety feel like a superpower — not a punishment.
- ✓Children: identify 5 common online tactics used to collect your information
- ✓Children: understand what happens to photos and data shared publicly
- ✓Children: practice the STOP-THINK-SHARE framework before posting anything
- ✓Parents: learn to be a trusted digital ally, not an obstacle
- ✓Everyone: complete a family Digital Safety Mission together
- ✓Children: earn their Digital Safety badge (printable certificate)
- ✓Parents and kids: establish a shared family online agreement that works for both
- ✓Everyone: leave with excitement about Session 6.3 — the fun creation workshop
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The Mission Briefing
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Level 1: The Data Hunt Game
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Level 2: Photo Detective
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Level 3: AI Prompt Safety
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The Family Agreement
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Bonus Materials
Children are not receptive to fear. They're receptive to challenge, to games, to feeling capable and smart.
So we don't lead with fear. We lead with a mission.
This session opens with a live interactive game where kids try to 'defeat' an AI bot that's attempting to collect their personal information — without giving anything away. They find it thrilling. By the end of the game, they've internalized every safety concept organically, because they won.
From there, we build on that foundation: real scenarios, real choices, real consequences explained at a level that respects children's intelligence. We don't talk down to them. We show them the mechanics — how image scrapers work, what happens when location data is embedded in a photo, how a simple social media post creates a profile — and we trust them to understand.
Parents participate as teammates, not authority figures. The session is deliberately designed so that the child often knows the answer before the parent. This reframes the dynamic: safety becomes something children own, not something done to them.
The session ends with both parent and child co-creating their Family Digital Safety Agreement — and with everyone genuinely excited for Session 6.3.
- Must complete Workshop 6.1 (Parents Only) first
- Attend together: one parent/guardian + child (ages 8–16)
- Two devices recommended — one per person in the session
- A spirit of curiosity and willingness to play
- Parent-child pairs (child aged 8–16)
- Must have completed Workshop 6.1 first
- Works best with 1 parent + 1 child (siblings welcome)
- School groups can book private sessions