Can you trust what you see online?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 computer science and ICT.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Gang Wang and Jaron Mink, computer scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. They are investigating how we interact with deepfakes and phishing attempts and how to protect us from their harmful effects.

• This resource also contains an interview with Gang and Jaron and offers an insight into careers in cybersecurity. If your students have questions for Gang and Jaron, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Gang and Jaron will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Gang and Jaron’s research and challenges them to consider how cybersecure they are online.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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