The eleven habits that separate a good netizen from an easy target, from privacy settings to spotting manipulation.
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Four short story games, and a free comic that tells the same stories, about the things that actually go wrong online: the fake prize, the reused password, the post that follows you, the scroll that eats the evening. You make the calls. No sign-up, nothing to install.
Sit in a teenager’s bedroom at night with a working phone and a working computer, and live through one evening of the scams that really turn up: a free-gems text, a friend who is not a friend, a mod menu, a fake support call, and a photo that says too much.
Play in 3DThe Backchannel is a free comic about the group chat none of them made. Read it on your phone. Each episode ends with a game on the same topic.
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Reading is free and always will be. These are for keeping the comic offline or putting it on paper.
All four episodes as PDFs to keep, read offline and print at home. Personal use.
Press-ready print files of all four episodes, with permission to print copies for the students in one school.
Hand the copies out free. One school per licence.
You have won something. There is a link. It expires in ten minutes. Work out which messages are lying to you, and what the tell was, before you tap anything.
One password, used everywhere, for years. This is the game about what happens next, and about the two-minute habits that make the whole thing a non-event.
Something posted at fourteen turns up at nineteen, in front of someone who matters. Everything you put out leaves a trail, so this is about writing that trail on purpose.
It is half past one and the next video already started. This one is about how the feed is built to keep you there, and how to take the evening back without deleting everything.
Start anywhere. Each one takes about five minutes, and your place is kept as you go.
A longer role-play through an app called Cybr. Real situations, real choices, and the reasoning spelled out after each one.
Best on a laptop or tablet. Press start and play as Cybr.
The Digital Citizen teaches HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript by making you build the page as you read. Every change shows up the moment you type it. Made for complete beginners, ages 11 and up.
4 sections · 32 lessons · nothing to install
Start the course
Section 1 is playable above. Progress saves by itself.
Open all 4 sectionsPlay straight through in your browser. No account, no download, and nothing to hand in at the end.
A way into the conversation that is not a lecture. Play a game together and talk about the choices it offered.
Each game runs in about five minutes, so one fits a tutor period and all four fit a lesson.
Guides on staying safe, private and decent online, for anyone who would rather read it than play it.
The eleven habits that separate a good netizen from an easy target, from privacy settings to spotting manipulation.
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The red flags that give a scam away, what counts as sensitive data, and what to do when a message feels off.
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Small daily habits that keep a phone and a laptop out of trouble, explained without a single piece of jargon.
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