Story
They recognise the situation
Students enter an age-appropriate story with characters, situations, and digital challenges they recognize.
K-12 digital safety, reimaginedempowering the AI Ready Generation
empowering the AI Ready Generation
and creating digital Safety at Scale
A cinematic, story-driven curriculum where kids learn to navigate the digital world alongside Myra and her friends — built on the SHIELD framework and trusted by educators.
ElementaryMiddle SchoolHigh School50+ standards alignedCASEL · ISTEFOSI · NCMEC
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Why it works
Students need more than warnings
Telling students what not to do online is not enough.
MASK NextGen puts students inside realistic situations where they have to decide what to do next. They see what happens, talk through the consequences, and try again.
The goal is to help students recognize risk and make better choices before they face the same situation on their own.
How students learn
Story, decision, consequence — then again
Decision
They choose what happens next
They make choices about what a character should do next.
Consequence
The story answers back
The story responds to those choices, showing students how different decisions can lead to different outcomes.
Challenge
They apply it
Students apply what they learned through activities and scenarios.
Discussion
They talk it through
Teachers help students talk through what happened, why it mattered, and what they might do differently.
Reinforcement
It comes back around
Key concepts return throughout the curriculum so students have repeated opportunities to use what they have learned.
For schools
Turnkey for schools
MASK NextGen is designed to be easy for schools to deploy.
The program provides the student experience, curriculum, activities, and reporting needed to run the program without asking schools to build lessons, train teachers to become digital-safety experts, or create their own assessment process.
Teachers guide the experience and can view school-level student data, while MASK NextGen provides the program structure and supporting materials.
For schools, that means less preparation, less administrative burden, and a consistent student experience across classrooms and grade levels.
MASK GROWS WITH THE STUDENT
The digital situations a third grader faces are not the same as those facing a high school senior
Recognize what feels unsafe
- Privacy, trusted adults, appropriate sharing, and online kindness
- Passwords, unfamiliar contacts, and what to do when something does not feel right
Understand manipulation
- Social pressure, cyberbullying, online identity, scams, and privacy
- Misinformation, algorithms, gaming, and the ways digital platforms can influence behavior
Navigate consequences independently
- AI, digital identity, reputation, cybersecurity, and synthetic media
- Relationships, online behavior, and the lasting consequences of what they share and create
One framework students can remember
SHIELD
SHIELD gives students a common language they can use as digital situations become more complex.
S
Safety
Recognize risk and know when to ask for help.
H
Habits
Build routines that support safer technology use.
I
Integrity
Make responsible choices even when no one is watching.
E
Empathy
Understand how digital behavior affects other people.
L
Literacy
Know how digital platforms, information, and AI systems work.
D
Defense
Protect accounts, devices, personal information, and digital identity.
AI literacy
Digital safety now includes AI
Students are encountering AI earlier and more often.
They need to understand what AI can do, where it can be wrong, what information should remain private, how synthetic content can be used to deceive, and why people still need to make important decisions.
MASK NextGen introduces these ideas at an age-appropriate level and builds on them as students move through school.
WHAT STUDENTS LEARN
Across the K–12 curriculum
- Online privacy and personal information
- Passwords, accounts, and cybersecurity
- Cyberbullying and digital behavior
- Social media and digital identity
- Scams, manipulation, and unsafe contact
- Misinformation and synthetic media
- Algorithms and online influence
- Responsible AI use
- Digital reputation
- When and how to ask an adult for help
Built to be taught
Designed for the classroom, not a one-off assembly
Built for the classroom
Educators get the materials, not homework
MASK NextGen combines student-facing stories and activities with the materials educators need to guide discussion and reinforce each lesson. The program is designed to be deployed without requiring schools to create their own curriculum or turn teachers into cybersecurity or AI experts.
More than a one-time lesson
Concepts return as students gain independence
Digital safety changes as students grow. MASK NextGen gives schools a way to introduce core concepts early, revisit them over time, and address more complex situations as students gain independence. A student who begins by learning when to ask a trusted adult can later examine social manipulation, AI-generated content, privacy, reputation, and independent decision-making.
Standards mapped
50+ standards and guidance areas
MASK NextGen curriculum is mapped across more than 50 standards and guidance areas relevant to digital citizenship, online safety, social-emotional learning, and responsible technology use.
Meet Myra and friends
Students are not simply told the answer
Myra and the MASK characters guide students through stories that turn digital safety lessons into situations they can see, discuss, and respond to. They are asked to make the decision.
