Choose Your Tools
Pick the tools that work best on your device. The skill matters more than the software. Chromebook, Windows, Mac and iPad users can all complete this activity successfully.
Use this to find, compare and record reliable cybersecurity information without copying unsafe technical instructions.
Use this to plan, write notes, draft explanations, record sources and create written portfolio evidence.
Use this to present your findings clearly to a class, family, school group or community audience.
Use this to create posters, infographics, cards, diagrams or campaign visuals.
Use this if you want to record a short explainer, awareness video or narrated briefing.
Use this to create tables, rank risks, compare options or organise evidence.
Support learners to avoid science fiction extremes and focus on plausible future issues. Encourage them to balance risks and protections, identify affected groups and make justified recommendations.
Successful work should include three technology explainers, a risk/protection table, stakeholder impact map, two scenarios, preparation recommendations and a final judgement about which issue needs attention.
To simplify, provide a shortlist of trends and a scenario template. To extend, ask learners to present as advisers to a school, local council or small business and answer audience questions.
Futures assessment is used in cybersecurity strategy, public policy, business planning, education, healthcare, transport, finance and technology design. It helps organisations prepare before harm occurs.
