THE INTERNET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO SCROLL.

WE’LL TEACH YOU HOW TO TAKE CONTROL.

When you first got access to the internet, no rulebook told you what to do online, what to watch out for, or what the risks were.

No one sat you down and explained what happens to your data, how to spot a scam, who to trust, or what to do when something goes wrong. You were simply expected to know.

But you shouldn’t have to figure it all out on your own.

The online world is constantly changing, and knowing how to navigate it is a skill, not something you’re just supposed to know. KnowledgeFlow is here to give you the knowledge, tools, and confidence to understand what’s happening behind the screen, protect what matters to you, and make your own smart and safe choices online.

UnHackable 60-Second Digital Skills Challenge

Test your digital skills with the quiz below! Choose what you’d genuinely do in each situation, then click “Check” to see immediate feedback. Complete the quiz to get your score and discover what it says about your UnHackable skills. Be honest; there are no perfect scores. This is your starting point!

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Featured Programs

NOVEMBER 16, 2026

Register for National CyberDay 2026

This isn’t Cyber Monday. It’s National CyberDay 2026!
National CyberDay is our annual day of cybersecurity education, and it’s also the release date for some of the new resources, courses, and activities we’ve been working on.

This year, it’s all about AI. 🤖 Artificial intelligence is changing quickly and showing up in more of the technology we use every day. So this CyberDay, we’re exploring what AI can do, how it’s being used beyond the tools you may already know, and the responsibilities that come with it.

Curious about AI? Come check it out on November 16, 2026! Registration required.

lEARN CYBERSAFETY AND CYBERSECURITY

Charting your course: A map from cybersafety to cybersecurity

Explore the world of cybersafety and cybersecurity, learning about the online risks that can affect you, from cybercrime and scams to privacy and the ways your personal information can be accessed and used.

Discover cybercriminal tactics, discover the potential harms you can encounter online, and build practical skills to protect your information, accounts, privacy, and digital life. Along the way, explore what a career in cybersecurity can look like and discover the different paths you can take to get there.

Learn what is out there. Understand the risks. Protect yourself. Enroll today!

AS SEEN AT RALLY 2026

Hoots Digital wellness wheel activity

To everyone who stopped by our RALLY booth, we hope you enjoyed exploring Hoots’ Digital Wellness Wheel! We had some amazing conversations with students during our activities, and we wanted to share the questions featured on our wellness wheel with everyone.

Whether you’re a teen looking to learn more about cybersafety or a teacher interested in bringing this activity into your classroom, we’ve included each wheel category and its corresponding questions below. We hope these questions inspire meaningful conversations about digital wellness and online safety!

Inbox Investigator

Become a true cyber expert and investigate some inboxes! Below are examples of real messages from platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, and email. You are to critically analyze them and answer a series of questions about the messages you see. Spot red flags and unusual requests, and explain what you would do differently in the situation! Test yourself to see how you’d react to these messages and learn what to do, and what not to do. Answers are provided on the last few pages of the document.

Teachers: You can integrate these discussions into your classroom by displaying the message on the board or breaking students into groups to discuss the messages and answer the questions.

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What Would You Do?

Can you make important decisions in challenging situations? Below are examples of real-world scenarios you may have encountered or could encounter in the future. Developing the skills and knowledge to recognize what you should and shouldn’t do in these situations is important. As you work through each scenario, think critically about how you would respond and what the best course of action would be. Answers on the last page.

Teachers: You can use these scenarios to spark classroom discussions by displaying them on the board. Have students raise their hands to share how they would respond, or divide them into small groups to discuss their options and explain their reasoning.

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Tech Check: Checking Your Digital Life

Stop guessing. Find out what your digital life actually looks like. Grab your phone and take a few minutes to review your settings, permissions, accounts, and habits. You might discover things you didn’t know were switched on, connected or visible.

iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone
Android: Settings → Privacy → Permission Manager → Microphone
Look for: How many apps can use your microphone?
Do this: Turn off microphone access for one app that doesn’t need it.

iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services
Android: Settings → Location → App permissions
Look for: Which apps can access your location?
Do this: Change one app’s location access if it doesn’t need it.

iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera
Android: Settings → Privacy → Permission Manager → Camera
Look for: How many apps can use your camera?
Do this: Remove camera access from one app that doesn’t need it.

iPhone & Android: Turn your phone off, then examine what shows up when you turn it on. Consider the lock screen, notification messages, if you can reply to a message on the lock screen, etc.
Look for: Can someone see message content without unlocking your phone?
Do this: Hide sensitive notification content on your lock screen.
– iPhone: Settings → Notifications → Show Previews
– Android: Settings → Notifications → Lock screen

Open the service you use to store your passwords and review your saved accounts. If you memorize your passwords instead, mentally review them.
Look for: Are you using different passwords for different accounts? If you can easily remember most of them, you may be relying on too few variations or patterns.
Do this: Pick one important account that uses a repeated or predictable password and change it to a unique password you don’t use anywhere else.

Open your app list and look for apps you haven’t used recently.
Look for: Apps you forgot you had.
Do this: Delete one app you no longer use.

Search your own name or username on Google and review what comes up.
Look for: What information about you is publicly visible? Does anything surprise you, or did you not realize it was online?
Do this: Review what you find and consider whether there’s anything you’d like to remove, make private, or change to better protect your personal information.

Visit the Have I Been Pwned website and enter your email address to check whether it has appeared in any known data breaches.
Look for: Has your email address been involved in a data breach? If so, which accounts or services were affected
Do this: If your email appears in a breach, change the password for any affected accounts, especially if you have reused that password elsewhere.
Bonus: Check your parents’ email addresses with their permission and help them take action if they’ve been part of a data breach.

You just took an important step toward taking your tech on your own terms. Your accounts, passwords, permissions and settings are yours to control. Don’t want an app to have access? Revoke it. Want stronger, unique passwords? Create them. Find a setting you don’t like? Change it.

Being UnHackable isn’t about being perfect. It’s about knowing you have choices and you have control. Your digital life is yours. Take charge of it.

Tech Trivia: Do you know what’s true or false?

Think you know your tech? Test your knowledge with this quick True or False challenge! Choose from four different categories and see how much you know. On a spare piece of paper, write down whether you think each statement is true or false. Once you’ve made your guesses, open the drop-down menu below to check the answer key and see how you did!

Teachers: Turn this activity into a fun classroom challenge! Create a short presentation using the questions and have students raise their hands to share their answers, or let them work independently to test their knowledge and see how many they get right.

1. Instagram’s parent company says it can use information about your activity to personalize what content and ads you see.

2. Even if you never post anything publicly, your activity on a platform can still be used to personalize your experience.

3. Your Instagram experience can be personalized based on things you do outside of Instagram.

4. A private Instagram account means Instagram doesn’t collect information about you.

5. TikTok can collect information about how you interact with videos, including how long and how often you use the app.

6. TikTok says it can collect information about content you create even if you don’t ultimately publish it.

1. Deleting something from your account guarantees that nobody else has a copy.

2. If you don’t actively post your location, people can never figure out where you are from your Snapchat activity.

3. If you turn your location off from Snap Map after some time, that means nobody could have seen or remembered where you were.

4. A private story is completely private because only the people you selected can see it.

5. Turning on Ghost Mode means your location is no longer visible to other Snapchat users through Snap Map, but it doesn’t mean your phone has stopped determining its location.

1. AI can produce an answer that sounds extremely confident and is still completely wrong.

2. Everything you type into an AI chatbot is confidential and can never be seen by anyone else.

3. If an AI chatbot says “I checked this,” that automatically means it actually checked a reliable source.

4. Putting “Do not share this information” into your AI prompt guarantees that the information will remain private.

1. A website can have HTTPS and still be a scam.

2. A website being the first result on Google means Google has verified that the website is trustworthy.

3. An app can request access to your camera, microphone, contacts, photos, or location even though you don’t necessarily need to give it all of those permissions to use the app.

Category 1: Social Media Privacy & Data Collection
1. TRUE. Meta says it uses information and activity to personalize experiences, including content and ads.
2. TRUE. Meta describes using things such as profile information and actions like following and liking to personalize what people see.
3. TRUE. Meta announced in 2026 that information businesses share with Meta can be used to personalize content and AI responses, in addition to ads.
4. FALSE. Private account settings affect who can see your content. They don’t mean the platform stops processing information about your account and activity.
5. TRUE. TikTok’s current privacy policy says it automatically collects usage information such as how you interact with content and ads and the duration and frequency of your use. Reveal: So even if you never hit ‘like,’ your activity can still provide signals.
6 TRUE. Its privacy policy says user content can be collected during creation, import, or upload, including content that you choose not to save or publish.
Category 2: Digital Footprints & Location Safety
1. FALSE. Someone could have already screenshotted, downloaded, or otherwise copied it.
2. FALSE. Photos, videos, backgrounds, landmarks, routines, and other clues can reveal location.
3. FALSE. Someone could have already seen it or taken a screenshot.
4. FALSE. The audience is restricted, but viewers can still screenshot, screen-record, photograph another screen, or share what they see.
5. TRUE. This is an important distinction: hiding your location from other users ≠ your device never knowing your location.
Category 3: AI, Trust & Misinformation
1. TRUE.
2. FALSE. Different AI services have different data practices. Depending on the service, account type, settings, and conversation, prompts may be stored, reviewed, or used to improve services.
3. FALSE. You need to know what tools or sources the system actually used.
4 . FALSE. That’s not a privacy control.
Category 4: Online Scams, Website Safety & App Permissions
1. TRUE. “HTTPS helps protect the connection. It does not prove the person running the website is trustworthy.”
2. FALSE.
3. TRUE.

Friendship Test: Can you help your friend in a meaningful way?

People sometimes make mistakes online or find themselves in situations they’re not sure how to handle. Maybe a friend believes something that isn’t true, shares something without thinking about the consequences, or doesn’t know what to do when faced with a difficult online situation. Knowing what to say in these moments can make a difference. Below are some scenarios your friends might face online. For each one, think about what you would actually say to help them out. Everyone could use a little help online sometimes, so let’s put your skills to the test and see what it takes to be a good digital friend!

Teachers: Turn this activity into a fun classroom challenge! Have students work independently or in groups to develop their own responses to each Friendship Test scenario. Then, bring the class together to share ideas, compare responses, and discuss how to be a supportive friend and make safer, smarter choices online!

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Keep learning. Keep playing. Keep exploring.

You have started building the knowledge to navigate the online world with more confidence, but there is always something new to discover. New technologies, new risks, and new ways of staying safe are constantly emerging. The good news? Learning does not have to feel like homework.

Keep exploring with the Cybersafety Academy, where you can dive into interactive courses, take on challenges, and put your skills to the test through games like Cyber Sentinel, Cyber Royale and Think You Know Cyber? Whether you want to learn something new, sharpen your skills, or simply see what you can do, there is plenty more to explore.

Keep your curiosity going. Your next challenge is waiting.