🪞 Phase 2 - Encounter
🪞 Matching
⏱ 5 minutes
Task 3 - The Digital Mirror
Look beyond the surface. For each artifact, decide which Wonder concept it really expresses - Beauty, Mystery, Silence & Focus, Motivation, or Wonder.
Match each artifact to a Wonder concept
Artifact 1 - The Glitched Avatar
A profile picture partially obscured by colourful digital pixels - unrecognisable to facial recognition.
Student A (Surface): "I see a broken image, or a cool art filter."
Which concept is this person really using?
✅ Mystery. This person is protecting their soul from being tracked by algorithms - choosing to be "opaque" to stay safe.
Artifact 2 - The Language Keyboard Overlay
A social post written in an endangered indigenous language, using a custom-designed keyboard.
Student A (Surface): "I see a phone app with weird symbols."
Which concept is this person really using?
✅ Beauty. It's the radical act of cultural preservation - using ICT to keep a dying language alive.
Artifact 3 - The "Deep Work" Log
A phone screenshot showing Do Not Disturb on, social apps greyed out, a single e-book app open.
Student A (Surface): "I see a phone that's turned off or restricted."
Which concept is this person really using?
✅ Silence & Focus. Reclaiming mental space from algorithmic noise, so identity stays a choice - not a product of distraction.
Quick-check reflection table
| If you see... | You are witnessing... | This concept is... |
|---|---|---|
| A hidden profile | The right to remain unquantifiable | Mystery |
| Authentic selfies | The power of self-representation | Beauty |
| Offline habits | Reclaiming mental space from noise | Silence & Focus |
| Online research | Exploring hidden histories | Wonder & Curiosity |
| Advocacy posts | Drive for social change | Inner Motivation |
Bridge to Phase 3 - Investigation
"You've just learned to read identity in a single image. Now let's investigate the real tools people use to build - and protect - a pseudonymous life."
What happens in Task 3
A 5-minute matching activity, "The Digital Mirror." For each of three digital artifacts, students choose which Wonder concept (Beauty, Mystery, Silence & Focus, Motivation, Wonder) it really expresses. There's no penalty for a wrong guess - the correct concept and its reasoning are always revealed.
🎯 Learning objectives
Students challenge themselves to look beyond the surface of digital interfaces and recognise the deeper elements of identity, survival, and resistance at work in ordinary-looking choices.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- No time limit on any artifact - students proceed at their own pace
- Every answer, right or wrong, receives the same supportive explanation
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Teacher projects or hands out the three artifact descriptions
- Class votes on the concept by show of hands before the teacher reveals the answer