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Modern Life Skills

Digital security, fact-checking, and navigating the information landscape. Essential skills for the modern world.

📚 10 courses 📑 119 chapters 🏠 Home & Work
I

Digital Self-Defense

Recognizing Scams and Phishing
12 chapters • Don't get fooled
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  1. 1. How a Fraudulent Message Signals Itself: Urgency, Authority, and the Broken Detail
  2. 2. Why Fake Login Pages Work: Domains, Padlocks, and What the Browser Actually Tells You
  3. 3. How Attackers Take an Account Without Ever Guessing the Password
  4. 4. Why Romance Fraud Takes Months: Grooming, Isolation, and the First Small Ask
  5. 5. How the Tech Support Call Gets Inside Your Computer
  6. 6. Why Investment Fraud Survives Every Warning: The Payout That Proves It
  7. 7. How Text and Phone Fraud Beats the Filters Email Cannot
  8. 8. Why Invoice and Wire Fraud Costs Businesses the Most
  9. 9. Who Gets Targeted, and Why the Answer Is Not Gullibility
  10. 10. What to Do in the First Hour After You Click
  11. 11. How to Recover an Account Somebody Else Now Controls
  12. 12. Where to Report Fraud, and What Reporting Actually Accomplishes
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Locking Down Your Devices and Accounts
12 chapters • Practical security basics
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  1. 1. Why the Old Password Rules Made Passwords Worse
  2. 2. How a Password Manager Changes the Problem You Have to Solve
  3. 3. Why Your Email Account Is the Master Key to Everything Else
  4. 4. How Two-Factor Authentication Works, and Which Kind Is Worth Having
  5. 5. Why Passkeys Are Replacing Passwords, and What Changes for You
  6. 6. How Software Updates Close the Window Attackers Are Waiting For
  7. 7. Why App Permissions Are the Quietest Risk on Your Phone
  8. 8. How to Tell a Safe Download From an Expensive Mistake
  9. 9. Why Your Home Router Is the Device You Have Never Configured
  10. 10. How Public Wi-Fi Exposes You, and What Still Matters Today
  11. 11. What Screen Locks and Disk Encryption Protect Against
  12. 12. How to Prepare an Account for the Day You Lose the Phone
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Privacy and Data Minimization
12 chapters • Control your digital footprint
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  1. 1. How You Are Tracked Across Sites You Never Visited
  2. 2. Why Data Brokers Know Things You Never Told Anyone
  3. 3. What Your Phone Broadcasts About Where You Have Been
  4. 4. Why Private Browsing Does Much Less Than Its Name Suggests
  5. 5. How Ad Blockers and Tracker Blockers Differ, and What Each Costs
  6. 6. Why Search History Is the Most Revealing File About You
  7. 7. How Loyalty Cards and Free Apps Convert You Into Inventory
  8. 8. What Privacy Settings Actually Change on the Major Platforms
  9. 9. Why Deleting an Account Rarely Deletes the Data
  10. 10. How Photographs Carry More Than the Picture
  11. 11. What Sharing Less Looks Like Without Leaving Everything
  12. 12. Which Privacy Laws Give You Real Leverage, and How to Use Them
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II

Information Verification Basics

Quick Checks Before You Believe or Share
12 chapters • Stop, check, then share
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  1. 1. Why Anger Is the Signal to Stop Rather Than to Share
  2. 2. How Urgency Defeats Judgment in the First Hour of Breaking News
  3. 3. Who Is Behind This: Finding the Publisher Before Reading the Claim
  4. 4. Why an Official-Looking Site Proves Nothing About Who Pays for It
  5. 5. How to Find the Original Source Behind a Screenshot
  6. 6. Why the Date Is the Most Skipped Check and the Most Useful One
  7. 7. How Real Images Get Attached to the Wrong Event
  8. 8. Why Independent Confirmation Means Something Narrower Than It Sounds
  9. 9. How a Real Statistic Gets Made to Say Something False
  10. 10. Why a Quote Can Be Accurate and Still Mislead
  11. 11. What to Do When a Claim Cannot Be Checked Quickly
  12. 12. How to Build a Thirty-Second Routine You Will Actually Use
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Evaluating Sources and Expertise
12 chapters • Who to trust and why
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  1. 1. Why Source Evaluation Matters
  2. 2. Credible Institutions vs. Random Accounts
  3. 3. Signals of Expertise and Peer Review
  4. 4. Understanding Bias and Editorial Slant
  5. 5. Separating News, Opinion, and Rumor
  6. 6. Evaluating Scientific and Health Claims
  7. 7. Evaluating Government and Official Sources
  8. 8. Evaluating Social Media as a Source
  9. 9. Following the Money: Funding and Motivation
  10. 10. The Ecosystem of Unreliable Sources
  11. 11. When Experts Disagree
  12. 12. Building Your Source Evaluation Habits
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Tools and Techniques for Verifying Information
12 chapters • Practical fact-checking methods
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  1. 1. Reverse Image Search and Visual Verification
  2. 2. Using Fact-Checking Sites Effectively
  3. 3. Looking Up Claims in Official Databases
  4. 4. Spotting Manipulated Images and Deepfakes
  5. 5. Verifying Social Media Claims
  6. 6. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Basics
  7. 7. Checking Claims About Science and Health
  8. 8. Verifying News Stories and Sources
  9. 9. Browser Extensions and Digital Tools
  10. 10. Dealing with Uncertainty and Ambiguity
  11. 11. Teaching Verification to Others
  12. 12. Building Your Verification Workflow
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III

Fighting Misinformation

AI, Bots, and Synthetic Media
12 chapters • The new landscape of deception
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  1. 1. What Is Synthetic Media?
  2. 2. How AI Generates Text
  3. 3. How AI Generates Images and Video
  4. 4. How AI Generates and Clones Audio
  5. 5. Tell-Tale Signs of AI-Generated Content
  6. 6. Bot Networks and Engagement Farms
  7. 7. Astroturfing and Manufactured Consensus
  8. 8. Political Manipulation and Election Interference
  9. 9. The Trust Crisis: When Nothing Looks Real
  10. 10. Tools and Techniques for Verification
  11. 11. Legal, Regulatory, and Platform Responses
  12. 12. Living in a World of Synthetic Content
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Checking Political Claims and Statistics
12 chapters • Numbers can lie
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  1. 1. How Politicians Use Numbers to Persuade
  2. 2. Finding Original Data and Reports
  3. 3. Understanding Polls and Margins of Error
  4. 4. Recognizing Misleading Graphs and Charts
  5. 5. Economic Claims: Jobs, GDP, and Cost of Living
  6. 6. Crime and Safety Claims
  7. 7. Immigration Claims
  8. 8. Healthcare and Social Program Claims
  9. 9. Climate and Environmental Claims
  10. 10. Education and Budget Claims
  11. 11. Fact-Checking Organizations and How to Use Them
  12. 12. Building Your Political Fact-Checking Practice
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Being a Responsible Sharer and Helper
12 chapters • Don't be part of the problem
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  1. 1. Why Rules Set in Advance Beat Judgment in the Moment
  2. 2. How to Decide What You Will and Will Not Pass Along
  3. 3. Why Sharing to Condemn Still Spreads the Claim
  4. 4. How to Correct Yourself Without Destroying Your Credibility
  5. 5. Why Correcting Someone Publicly Usually Hardens Them
  6. 6. How to Talk to a Relative Who Believes Something False
  7. 7. Why Shaming Fails, and What Replaces It
  8. 8. How to Tell When a Conversation Is Worth Having at All
  9. 9. Why Your Own Side's Falsehoods Are the Ones You Must Catch
  10. 10. How to Build an Information Diet You Can Defend
  11. 11. Why Being Trusted Is a Resource You Can Spend
  12. 12. What Responsibility Looks Like When You Have an Audience
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IV

Planning Complex Work

Pre-Planning and Planning Meetings
11 chapters • Get projects right from the start
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  1. 1. The Initial Contact Call (Single)
  2. 2. The Relationship Framework Meeting (Single)
  3. 3. Expectations Alignment Meetings (Multiple)
  4. 4. Requirements Discovery Meetings (Multiple)
  5. 5. Constraints Reality Meetings (Multiple)
  6. 6. Technology Direction Meetings (Multiple)
  7. 7. The Schedule and Milestones Meeting (Single)
  8. 8. Procurement and Logistics Meetings (Multiple)
  9. 9. The Documentation Standards Meeting (Single)
  10. 10. The Progress Review Cadence Meeting (Single)
  11. 11. The Pre-Design Signoff Meeting (Single)
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