Creating trustworthy digital artefacts
A good digital artefact — a poster, website or video — is judged not just on looks, but on whether people can trust it and actually use it.
Part of your national curriculum
- Creativity and digital literacy: Create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
Key learning points
- • Designing for an audience
- • Trustworthiness
- • Reusing and repurposing
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 16 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Creating trustworthy digital artefacts
A good digital artefact — a poster, website or video — is judged not just on looks, but on whether people can trust it and actually use it.
In a nutshell
Create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability
Learning cycle
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Learning cycle 1 of 2
Part 1 · Designing for an audience
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
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Learn
Designing for an audience
Before building anything, decide who will use it: younger children need large text and simple navigation, while a business audience expects a professional, uncluttered layout. Every design choice should serve that specific audience.
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Trustworthiness
Cite sources, use accurate up-to-date information, and avoid misleading images or claims. Adding a 'sources' section or checking facts against a second source builds credibility with your audience.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Learning cycle
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Part 2 · Reusing and repurposing
A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.
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Learn
Reusing and repurposing
Rather than starting from scratch, an existing poster's layout could be revised with new text for a different event, or a set of survey results repurposed from a spreadsheet chart into a presentation slide — as long as usability stays high.
Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
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Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 14 of 16
Game · Recall cards
Why should you consider your audience before designing an artefact?
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Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Creating trustworthy digital artefacts
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Why should you consider your audience before designing an artefact?
2. What helps make a digital artefact trustworthy?
3. What does 'repurposing' an artefact mean?
Lesson round-up
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Create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability