The Cyber Toolkit is designed to help teachers find the most appropriate and useful advice, information and resources to support learners.
Author: George Milliken
19 January 4pm, Cyber Toolkit webinar
The Cyber Toolkit is designed to help teachers find the most appropriate and useful advice, information and resources to support learners.
When we use the internet we either consume, create or communicate. Each of these behaviours has different levels and types of risk. This toolkit will help you to diagnose, understand and then support learners with their digital needs.
Before you start with the toolkit, find out what your learners are using and doing online; and the issues or risks this presents. With this information you can use the toolkit to locate information, resources and professional learning to support you in planning meaningful CRIS learning.
Click this button to go to the Cyber Toolkit
Sign up for the webinar using this EvenBrite link – Sign up here
16 March 16:00, Cyber Toolkit webinar
When we use the internet we either consume, create or communicate. Each of these behaviours has different levels and types of risk. This toolkit will help you to diagnose, understand and then support learners with their digital needs.
Before you start with the toolkit, find out what your learners are using and doing online; and the issues or risks this presents. With this information you can use the toolkit to locate information, resources and professional learning to support you in planning meaningful CRIS learning.
Click this button to go to the Cyber Toolkit
Sign up for the webinar using this EvenBrite link – Sign up here
21 March 16:00, This is Digital Learning and Teaching professional learning programme
As educators it is our responsibility to make effective use of digital technology to deliver high quality teaching, engaging learning and effective assessment.
This four-part professional learning programme is designed to enhance educators’ knowledge and skills in order to develop their planning, teaching and learning, and assessment and feedback with digital technology.
The four sessions cover:
Find out more about the programme with this link.
Sign up for this programme has ended.
This is Digital CLPL programme: assessing learning and feeding forward
Discussion points
To enable more effective and meaningful discussions during the webinar, please consider your thoughts on these points beforehand:
- What would learning look like without jotters?
- How can digital ensure that the assessment matches the learnign and fairly captures skills and knowledge
- Using digital to provide feedback that informs improvements in learners
02 February 16:00, Teacher Toolkit PART 2: a beginner’s guide to essential digital skills for teaching
The Teacher Toolkit programme aims to provide practical training in using the most essential skills and knowledge required to use Microsoft365 or Google Workspace in Glow.
The skills and knowledge are based on the Scottish Teacher Digital Literacy Framework but reduced to just five skills, ensuring that it is manageable and achievable for busy teachers who need time and space to practice using them.
Find out more about this programme with this link: Teacher Toolkit
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02 February16:00, Teacher Toolkit PART 1: a beginner’s guide to essential digital skills for teaching
The Teacher Toolkit programme aims to provide practical training in using the most essential skills and knowledge required to use Microsoft365 or Google Workspace in Glow.
The skills and knowledge are based on the Scottish Teacher Digital Literacy Framework but reduced to just five skills, ensuring that it is manageable and achievable for busy teachers who need time and space to practice using them.
Find out more about this programme with this link: Teacher Toolkit
Sign up using this Eventbrite link: Eventbrite signup
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Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety for secondary teachers
Cyber resources
CyberFirst offers a range of learning courses and resources from age 11, including:
- Trailblazers
- Adventurers
- Defenders
- Futures
Experience an interactive journey into the world of cybersecurity. This resource shines a light on some of the most important topics for how to stay safe inside the digital world and gives practical suggestions that help improve cyber resilience.
This set of resources combines the SQA level 4 units in Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety.
They reinforce our belief that every learner should have the knowledge and skills to use the internet and online services safely, allowing them to spot potential risks and recover from any potential harm, they face while using online services.
This module has primarily been developed to further enhance the skills of the learners to take part in, for example, cyber competitions and challenges including the Cyber 9/12 College and Universities competition.
Understanding cyber resilience and internet safety
The Teacher Cyber Toolkit is the main page for information, ideas and resources for teachers. It splits internet use into: consume, create or communicate and has resources and information for each of these.
Start here if you need support with basic digital literacy skills, such as creating passwords, logging in to Glow or connecting to Wi-Fi.
This is Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety is the next step for teachers more confident in their own digital literacy. There are four sessions to choose from whether you are planning lessons or creating guidance for your school or community.
Cyber across the curriculum
Cyber resilience and internet safety can be incorporated into other curricular areas, below are links to those which are ‘responsibilities of all’. This has been kept concise for simplicity but there are many other aspects that could be explored by teachers.
Cyber security can be studied in Scottish education as a discrete subject. It offers challenge, problems to solve and opportunities.
There are lots of areas of our lives now touched by digital technology and cyber resilience can help keep them safer, more private and fairer.
More of the information we consume is now online, in the form of news, social media and literature. Learners need support to find, evaluate and make use of these texts.
Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety for primary teachers
This section aims to provide ideas, information and professional learning to support primary teachers develop confident and responsible children and young people that are cyber resilience.
The key skills and knowledge for teaching cyber resilience can be found in the image opposite. The image can also be viewed with this link:
go to cyber resilience digital skills guide
These basic cyber resilience skills form part of the Learner Digital Skills toolkit for Digital Literacy in Curriculum for Excellence.
The Cyber Resilience Toolkit explains the main risks, potential harms and strategies to support children and young people reduce the risk of using the internet.
These cyber resilience lessons for primary and secondary learners are designed to be easy-to-use for educators, engaging for learners and to develop their resilience.
This literature review, produced by the University of Glasgow, is clear about the need for children and young people to learn digital skills to help them become cyber resilient. It underpins our work on cyber resilience and internet safety.
Additional resources
The Bongles is story for younger learners that introduces the basic concepts of keeping devices secure with passcodes.
There are resources for teachers to support the learning.
CyberSprinters is an online game for 7-11 year olds that introduces the basics of cyber hygiene and security.
There are resources for teachers to support the learning.
CyberFirst Navigators is a series of interactive videos and supporting resources for 11–14 year olds.
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