Digital Literacy & Online Safety: Medium-Term Delivery Plan
A structured, ready-to-implement instructional delivery schedule mapping Digital Literacy and Online Safety across three progressive developmental milestones: Awakening, Change, and Embrace. The plan develops confident digital access, online safety, information integrity, AI awareness, digital footprint management, cyber hygiene, assistive technology, and independent digital autonomy.
DDP Delivery Schedule Explorer
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Digital Confidence, Access Tools & Account Safety Foundations
Device Fluency, Assistive Technology and Digital Confidence
Device navigation, file management, browser use, accessibility settings, screen readers, dictation, reading tools, cloud storage, keyboard shortcuts, workflow routines, and digital fluency.
Remove shame around digital gaps by treating digital access as a trainable workflow, not an assumed skill.
"Digital confidence is built through repeatable steps. We are not testing what you already know, we are building a workflow you can use again when you are independent."
- • Practical: Navigate devices, files, accessibility tools and cloud storage using a repeatable workflow.
- • Reflection: Identify which digital tools reduce cognitive load and support independence.
Passwords, Digital Identity and Safe Online Behaviour
Password strength, passphrases, two-factor authentication, account recovery, privacy settings, respectful communication, online boundaries, profile information, data sharing, and digital identity.
Make account safety visual and practical, avoiding fear-based teaching or technical overload.
"Your account is like a front door. A strong passphrase, recovery option and second step of security make it harder for someone else to enter your digital space."
- • Knowledge: Explain passwords, two-factor authentication, privacy settings and digital identity risks.
- • Application: Create a safe account checklist and personal online behaviour agreement.
The Standard DDP Digital Literacy Lesson Architecture Runner
Simulate or run a 60-minute neuro-affirming digital literacy and online safety lesson structure. Guides instruction pacing automatically.
Zone 1: Anchoring
Students open the session with one digital routine, one safety rule, one key term and one accessible workflow target.
Zone 2: Exploration
Students practise digital workflows, evaluate sources, manage privacy settings, test AI outputs or complete online safety scenarios.
Zone 3: Translation
Students translate digital learning into safety checklists, support routes, portfolio evidence and independent digital action steps.
DDP Teacher Script Engine
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Each script provides a direct, low-demand verbal instruction.
"Digital confidence is built through repeatable steps. We are not testing what you already know, we are building a workflow you can use again when you are independent."
Assuming all learners already know basic device, account, file or browser workflows.
Reduces shame and builds repeatable digital independence through explicit workflow modelling.
DDP Digital Literacy Technical Terminology Glossary
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Digital Fluency
The ability to use digital tools confidently, safely and effectively for learning, communication, work and everyday life.
Two-Factor Authentication
A security method requiring a second step to log in, such as a code, app approval or trusted device.
Information Integrity
The ability to judge whether digital information is accurate, reliable, relevant and ethically produced.
Phishing
A scam where someone uses a fake message, link or website to trick a person into sharing information or money.
Digital Footprint
The trail of information a person leaves online through posts, images, messages, searches, accounts and shared content.
AI Co-Pilot Use
Using AI tools as structured support for planning, drafting, checking, organising or learning while keeping human judgement and safety in control.
The Personalised DDP Digital Literacy MTP Exporter
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DDP Diverse Resource Bank: Digital Literacy and Online Safety
Department rule: where a case study, campaigner, organisation, example, image or text is the teacher's choice, it is drawn from this bank so that Black, female and neurodivergent voices are the norm across the course, not an exception. Check that organisations, helplines and legal references are current each term.
Organisations and reporting routes
Childline and Report Remove (with the IWF) for image removal; CEOP for reporting; Internet Matters and the UK Safer Internet Centre for guidance; Glitch, founded by Seyi Akiwowo, on online abuse, particularly of Black women and girls; the Molly Rose Foundation on harmful content. Reporting pathways in the MTP name these routes so learners leave with a real next step.
Voices on how platforms work
Joy Buolamwini and the Algorithmic Justice League (Coded Bias) for facial-recognition bias; Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression for search bias; Timnit Gebru on AI ethics; Frances Haugen's testimony on engagement design; Baroness Kidron and 5Rights on children's design rights. The dopamine-loop and algorithm playgrounds cite these by name.
Fact-checking and misinformation
Full Fact and BBC Verify as checking routes; Carole Cadwalladr's Cambridge Analytica reporting as the case study for data and persuasion; the deepfake sifter uses examples that include Black and female public figures as the targets they disproportionately are, with the discussion framed around harm, not spectacle.
Sensory audit and assistive technology
Assistive tools taught as standard: Immersive Reader, text-to-speech, dictation, focus modes and notification scheduling. First-person accounts from Ellie Middleton (ADHD and social media), Chloé Hayden and Dara McAnulty on managing online life while neurodivergent. The sensory audit playground treats app design as the variable, not the learner.
Who works in technology
Anne-Marie Imafidon and Stemettes, Coding Black Females, Black Girls Code and Ada Lovelace as the historical anchor; Katherine Johnson and the NASA computers; the Black British Business Awards tech categories. Portfolio and employability tasks include at least one profile of a technologist who is Black, female or openly neurodivergent.
Rights, contracts and privacy
The ICO in plain language on data rights; Which? on consumer contracts; the Online Safety Act 2023 in summary; the Equality Act 2010 for reasonable adjustments to digital services. App terms decomposition uses services learners actually use, chosen each year from what the class reports in the sensory audit.