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ThoughtBytes explores how edufiction and narrative learning can support digital literacy and ethical thinking in a technology-shaped world.
ThoughtBytes is an ideas blog exploring how edufiction can be practically used to help children and young teens understand digital life.
It focuses on digital citizenship, media/AI literacy, and emerging technologies through an educational and parenting lens, using story and context rather than headlines or hype.
All content is created by Casper Pieters and may be shared non-commercially, unchanged, with attribution.
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The Synergy Between Curricula and Edufiction
Edufiction and school curricula inform each other.
The first intentional edufictional book
The Swiss Family Robinson on an exotic tropical island.
Edufication to Understand Climate Change
Young learners surrounding a large book about climate change in a library.
The Timeless Joy of Old-Fashioned Human Interaction
Restaurant full of diners with a large wooden clock with Roman numerals in the background. The Roman IV has been changed into a VI to make the word VIV as a secret sign from 2eno.
How Characters Teach Through Consequences
A class learning about a character in an edufictional story taught by their teacher.
Edufiction Beyond Books - Tackling Social Issues Through Diverse Media
Edufiction using multi media to entice young minds and teach them about relevant, and often complex, social issues.
Edufiction: A Homeschooler’s Key to Personalised and Effective Learning
How edufictional books suit the pace and personalisation of learning in homeschools.
A new Digital Divide is emerging
A new digital divide is emerging between the technologically enhanced and those that chose to remain natural.
Crafting Edufiction - A Guide for Young Writers
Group of young people in a library discussing an edufictional story.