Notice
What changed in the conversation? What detail made you pause?
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Pathfinder activity / Ages 11–18 / Facilitated
Pausing Point
Practise noticing a change in an online conversation. Choose what you might do next, then talk through the choice with your group.
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For a teacher-led discussion. These fictional examples are starting points, not a safety test. You can observe, skip any scenario, or pause at any time. The activity does not ask for names, personal stories, or chat logs.
01 / Choose a situation
Where might you pause?
02 / Read at your pace
Choose a situation to begin
Each message appears when you choose to continue. There is no score and no single answer key.
03 / Find your next move
What would help now?
Facilitator note
Make space for more than one response.
Allow about 15–20 minutes. Preview scenarios first, set a no-pressure option to observe or pass, and make the school’s reporting route clear before the conversation starts.
Check
What would you want to verify: the tool, the information, the school expectation, or the other person?
Connect
When would it help to involve a trusted person or follow the school’s safeguarding process?
Before use: choose scenarios that fit your class, tell students how to pause or leave, and add your school’s trusted-adult and reporting route. If a student shares a real concern, respond under your school’s safeguarding procedure rather than using the simulation to investigate it.
Why this activity is structured this way
It uses a progression from understanding to applying AI literacy, keeps learner judgement and agency central, and treats age and local context as part of lesson planning. These sources are frameworks and guidance, not validation studies of this activity.
- UNESCO, AI competency framework for students
- UNICEF Innocenti, Skills for an AI World (2026)
- UNICEF, When AI becomes a friend (2026)
- UK Department for Education, Teaching online safety in schools (England-specific guidance)
Prototype reviewed October 2026. Scenarios are fictional and should be reviewed locally before classroom use.