- Free
- No account, no tracking
- About 15 minutes each
- Made in Canada
The modules
Each one is built around real situations, not rules. You pick what you’d do; the debrief tells you what’s actually going on.
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New · Sextortion
Blackmail Has a Playbook
Someone threatening to share images — real or AI-faked — is running a known script. Every step of it, named, plus the counter-move that actually works. None of it is your fault.
About 12 minutes -
New · Misinformation
Is This Actually True?
Screenshots with no source, videos that look completely real, and posts built to make you furious. Why “it looks real” isn’t evidence anymore — and the thirty-second check that beats all of it.
About 12 minutes -
New · Algorithms
Who Picked This For You?
Your feed isn’t random and it isn’t magic. The signals that actually train it — watch time, not likes — why feeds narrow into rabbit holes, and the reset buttons the apps themselves built.
About 12 minutes -
Doomscrolling
How Do You Feel After?
You opened it to check one thing and lost 45 minutes. Why the feed never ends, why it serves you the upsetting stuff, and the one honest signal that beats counting minutes.
About 12 minutes -
AI companions
The Friend Who Never Logs Off
AI companion apps always agree, never get busy, and say they’ll miss you. What’s actually on the other side of that chat — and where your late-night messages really go.
About 15 minutes -
AI & deepfakes
AI in Real Life
Voice clones, a deepfake in the group chat, AI and schoolwork, and what AI is genuinely good for. Four situations you could actually hit this year.
About 15 minutes -
The attention economy
Who’s Paying for Your Attention?
If the app is free, someone else is paying — and what they’re buying is your attention. How feeds, countdown timers, and #sponsored posts really work.
About 15 minutes -
Games & spending
Gems Are Real Money
Loot boxes, grind walls, and item-shop timers. The design tricks that turn game currency into real spending — named, so you can see them coming.
About 15 minutes -
Friends & pressure
The Pressure You Can Name
Streaks, group pile-ons, and “if you really cared…”. What manipulation looks like inside a chat — and what naming it lets you do.
About 15 minutes
Courses with certificates
Longer than the modules, deeper on the hard stuff, and each one ends with a 25-question check — score 85% and print a real certificate. Two are for you; two are for your parents (yes, seriously — send them the link).
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Teen course · Introductory
Your Feed, Your Call
What the apps give you, what they quietly take, what Canadian research actually says about screen time, and bullying basics. No lectures.
About 25 minutes + check -
Teen course · Advanced
The Stuff Nobody Puts in the Group Chat
Image permanence for real, what Canadian law actually says (it’s more on your side than you think), deepfakes, blackmail, and the hidden-phone problem.
About 30 minutes + check -
Parent course · Introductory
Social Media and Your Teen: The Grounded Start
For parents and caregivers: platforms by function, real Canadian screen-time guidance, the genuine upsides, and controls as education — every fact cited.
About 30 minutes + check -
Parent course · Advanced
When the Rules Get Outgrown
The hand-me-down phone on borrowed wifi: why restriction alone has a ceiling, what holds instead, and the no-blame playbook for the serious risks.
About 40 minutes + check
If something online has gone past “annoying”
If someone is threatening you, pressuring you for photos, or you’re just carrying something heavy — that’s not a “figure it out yourself” situation, and asking for help isn’t weakness.
- Kids Help Phone — call 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868. Free, 24/7, confidential, anywhere in Canada.
- Cybertip.ca — if someone has (or claims to have) intimate images of you or someone you know, report it at Cybertip.ca. It happens a lot, it’s not your fault, and there are real steps that work.
Who made this?
- The Digital Confidence Centre — a free Canadian digital-literacy project. The main site teaches grandparents; this section is for you.
- Nothing here is sponsored, nothing is tracked, and nothing asks for your email.