Edufiction for digital literacy blends purposeful learning with engaging fiction. Instead of teaching digital skills through rules or lectures, it places young readers inside stories where age-equivalent characters face digital challenges and learn through choices, consequences, and reflection.

Fiction allows children to see online safety issues from inside a character’s experience. Through story, they can explore privacy, passwords, cyberbullying, fake profiles, risky sharing, online pressure, and digital responsibility in a way that feels meaningful rather than imposed.

manipulation, check sources, and understand how messages are shaped. Casper Pieters’ Cyber Whispers is designed around these themes, using story to help middle grade readers decode misinformation, persuasion, and fake news.

Parents can teach children about algorithms by talking about why certain videos, posts, games, or products appear on their screens. Edufiction stories such as Brain Rot! help children understand that digital platforms often recommend content to hold attention, not necessarily to support wellbeing.

Teachers can explain AI literacy by showing that AI systems generate, sort, predict, recommend, and sometimes get things wrong. Through edufiction, students can discuss AI as part of a story world, making ideas such as bias, data, creativity, ethics, and responsibility easier to understand.

Stories that help children understand cyberbullying show the emotional impact of online harm, the role of bystanders, and the importance of empathy and repair. Casper Pieters’ The Mauled Mage explores cyberbullying through a child-friendly adventure framework that encourages discussion rather than blame.

Books that explore screen addiction should help children understand attention, habits, reward loops, and the emotional pull of digital platforms. Casper Pieters’ Brain Rot! Cut the Noise – Find the Signal is designed to help young readers think about attention, distraction, algorithms, and digital wellbeing.

A story-based way to teach digital citizenship is to let children follow characters who face realistic digital problems. After the story, parents and educators can ask what happened, why it happened, what choices were made, and what the character could do differently.

Homeschoolers can use edufiction books, read-aloud kits, discussion questions, activity cards, reflection prompts, and short learning sessions to teach online safety. These resources allow families to explore privacy, cyberbullying, media literacy, AI, passwords, and attention through story-led conversation.

Books that teach privacy and passwords should make digital security understandable and memorable. Casper Pieters’ The Cybernetic Cipher (forthcoming) and Cyber Secrets explore passwords, privacy, identity, and digital protection through an adventure narrative designed for middle grade readers.

Children can learn about fake news through stories, such as Cyber Whispers, that show rumours spreading, sources being questioned, and characters learning how to verify information. Edufiction helps young readers practise media literacy by following characters who must separate truth from manipulation.

The best way is to begin with story. When children discuss what a fictional character did online, they can explore serious issues without feeling personally accused. This opens the door to reflection, empathy, and better decision-making.

Adventure stories support digital wellbeing by turning abstract concerns into memorable experiences. Through action, humour, suspense, and character growth, young readers can explore screen habits, online pressure, friendship, focus, identity, and resilience.

Edufiction Learning Systems are Casper Pieters’ story-based approach to helping young people decode their digital world. It combines adventure fiction with educational resources so parents, homeschoolers, teachers, and librarians can teach digital citizenship, media literacy, AI literacy, online safety, and digital wellbeing in an engaging way.