You already have a picture of your own digital day: the tools, apps and habits that fill it. Today you turn that picture into a starting point. You will rate how confident you feel across five parts of digital media literacy, help build a class map of shared strengths and gaps, and name two things you already do well plus two you want to get better at. Nothing is graded or collected. Honest answers help you most.

Digital media literacy is the set of skills that help you use digital technologies, communication tools and the internet creatively, critically and safely. Five areas you will meet again and again:

• Safe use: looking after yourself and others online.
• Searching: finding useful answers and reading results with care.
• Spotting dodgy content: noticing unreliable, biased or manipulated media.
• Creating: making your own digital work.
• Sharing: putting work or views online with credit, consent and respect.

Build a private confidence card, then help turn the class cards into one shared map of strengths and gaps.

Private card (and optional strip)

1. In your notes or on your device, make a five-line confidence card. Use these exact areas: safe use, searching, spotting dodgy content, creating, sharing.
2. Mark green (I feel solid), amber (I can manage some of it), or red (I want a lot more practice) for each area. Add one real example at least for every red and any amber you are unsure about; you can add the rest later if time. Keep names and private details out of the examples.
3. Optional if you finish early: make a quick five-box confidence strip (on paper or your device), one box per area, colour it green, amber or red, and add a one-word or short-phrase label from your example. This is yours to keep; it is not graded.

Class map

4. When most people have finished the private card, look at the interactive activity on the board. Under each heading, the class will add short notes drawn from the cards: what we already do well, and where we want to grow.
5. Offer a note only if you are happy to share that part of your card. No names on the board. You can use or reword one of the ready-made starter notes on the board, or type your own short note.
6. As a class, mark notes you agree with so the map shows shared patterns, not one loud voice. Aim for about ten notes in total, wherever they land - some headings will fill more than others.

• Name two things you are already confident about online. Take them from your green or strong amber lines, and keep each to one short sentence with a real example.
• Name two things you want to get better at during the course. Take them from your red or weaker amber lines, and keep each specific enough that you would know if you improved.
• Write all four somewhere you can find later (notes or the class way of saving work), beside your confidence card if you can.
• Optional: star the one goal that matters most to you right now.

Pull the threads together. Digital media literacy is not one skill: it is several, and most people are uneven across them. Your confidence card is a start-point, not a score. The class map shows you are not working alone; shared strengths can help others, and shared gaps are exactly what the course is built to practise. The four sentences you wrote are yours to keep: two things you already bring, and two you intend to grow.