Think Before You Swipe (Years 10–12)

Year 10–12 classes of up to 30, and the teachers and coordinators looking after Critical and Creative Thinking.

Teenagers are told to "think critically" quite a lot and shown how quite rarely. Students learn to question a confident answer, from a teacher, a feed or an AI, by catching the bias in it themselves. It's one double period, and by the end the room is arguing about evidence.

A typical session runs like this.

1. Intuition quiz: anchoring and framing. Most of the room gets caught, which is rather the point.
2. Small-group bias-spotting challenge.
3. Three biases that matter for study, social media and AI.
4. Wrap-up: checking a claim before you believe or share it.

• Practice at spotting biases and reasoning errors in what they watch, read and ask AI.
• A habit of checking a claim before believing or sharing it.

Think Before You Swipe draws on Critical and Creative Thinking (Reasoning and Meta-Cognition strands, Levels 9–10). These codes are the Year 9–10 band, so they fit Year 10 best; Years 11–12 build on the same skills. This is alignment, not accreditation.

• VCCCTR046: Reasoning errors, e.g. false dichotomies
• VCCCTR047: Suppressed premises and assumptions
• VCCCTM051: Thinking processes, including cognitive biases
• VCCCTQ044: Suspending judgement

• Length: 75 minutes (one double period).
• Group size: One class of up to 30.
• Where: In your classroom.
• What you provide: A room and a projector. We bring all materials; there's no prep for students.
• Who runs it: Brad Dunn, who holds a current Working With Children Check (Victoria).
• When: Booking from Term 1 2027.