Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Ready for the Real World is a multi-level digital confidence program for children, teens, and families that goes beyond standard online safety content. Instead of focusing on a list of isolated dos and don’ts, it develops transferable skills for critical thinking and safe, independent decision-making using real-life digital scenarios. Learners build habits like pausing and planning before acting, verifying information and sources, recognizing digital patterns (including scams and manipulation), using group chat best practices, and responding to situations in a way that’s balanced and thoughtful. Each course tier blends short video lessons, interactive quizzes, and practical guides—so skills grow with your child and adapt as technology and risks evolve over time.
Use age guidance and your child’s maturity. Foundations (6 weeks, ~45 min/week) suits ages 10+ for core routines. Explorer (6 weeks, ~60 min/week) deepens skills like pattern spirals, complex red flags, source triangulation, group chat protocols, and proportional risk. Completing Foundations first is recommended but not required if your 13-year-old shows readiness.
A short video lesson (4–8 minutes), an auto-scored quiz (5–10 questions), a downloadable file with guides/checklists/templates/household actions for parent-child practice. Week 1 includes a short baseline skills check; Week 6 consolidates learning with an endline check and a personal toolkit summary.
While the course can be finished comfortably within 1-2 months, the course validity has been fixed a generous 365 days (12 months).
Foundations: ~45 minutes/week; Explorer: ~60 minutes/week. This includes video, quiz, guide, and a short household activity (25–45 minutes) that can be done together.
Content is written with trauma-aware guidelines, neutral composite scenarios, and age-calibrated complexity. Foundations uses simple, concrete routines. Explorer adds layered analysis, triangulation, and group dynamics suitable for early teens.
They are realistic but neutral scenarios combining common digital patterns without political or traumatic triggers. This maintains relevance, reduces bias, and supports safe, effective learning.
A simple baseline situational judgment (SJT) check in Week 1 and an endline situational judgment (SJT) towards the end of the course show growth in most cases. Weekly quizzes reinforce recall, while household actions demonstrate real-life application.
Learners become more confident and thoughtful about their digital decisions. They build habits like pausing to assess before acting, planning and verifying sources, recognizing digital patterns and warning signs, applying smart group chat routines, and matching their response level to the actual risk. These skills transfer to new technologies and situations over time. Many families notice calmer, smarter decision-making—in children and adults—and more constructive conversations about both online and offline choices.
Minimal but meaningful. Check the dashboard for progress updates at least once a week, support the household action, and have a short conversation to connect lessons to your family’s context.
Yes. Content is fully asynchronous, mobile-friendly, and chunkable. Families often do the video+quiz midweek and the household action on weekends.
No problem. Resume where you left off. Lessons are designed to be self-contained while building cumulatively. Just follow the sequence of items and it should be perfectly fine.
Each learner should have their own enrollment to preserve quiz integrity, progress logs, and age-appropriate pacing.
Skills are app-agnostic and transferable (messaging, social, gaming, email). Children learn core routines—pattern recognition, verification, SOPs, proportional response—that apply across current and future platforms.
Keep the guides handy, revisit the toolkit summary, and apply routines during real family tech moments (e.g., verifying event messages, evaluating offers, moderating group chats).
Purchase flow meant for Parents/Guardians, explicit consent, DigiLocker based parent verification via compliant providers, consent logging, data minimization, and deletion on request.
Yes, through repeated, low-friction routines applied to everyday scenarios and reinforced by household actions, family discussion prompts, and quick wins that build confidence.
When your child consistently applies the basics and shows curiosity about “how patterns evolve”, “what counts as sufficient evidence”, and “how groups should set norms”.
They strengthen academic research habits, consumer choices, social judgment, and general decision-making—skills that benefit schoolwork and life.
Adjust pacing, revisit guides, and use the household activity at the right complexity. If consistently too easy, consider stepping up to the next program. If too hard, slow down and practice the core routine first.