Primary schools

IRL Superpowers Mission

A ready-to-run workshop that helps children understand the value of their attention, recognise how smartphones and digital products compete for it, and decide what deserves it instead.

Ages 8 – 11
60 minutes
Slides, videos & printouts
Free

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Why focus on attention

Children’s attention shapes who they become. But holding onto it is getting harder, with products designed to compete for it at every turn.

In the IRL Superpowers mission, pupils join Max Focus to track down the Distractoor and uncover the tricks it uses to capture attention.

Along the way, pupils discover that choosing where their attention goes is what strengthens their real-life superpowers.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this lesson, pupils will be able to:

Recognise the superpowers developed through their interests.
Understand that their real-life superpowers are strengthened by attention.
Identify the features in the screen-filled world designed to capture attention.
Explain how they can choose to give their attention to the real-life things that matter.