Category: Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety
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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.
Parents’ Cyber First Aid Box
The Cyber First Aid Box is designed to support families recover from online harms.
Designed in partnership with Decode Cyber Solutions and Education Scotland’s Digital Skills team – it is a free resource available to everyone.
Clicking on the image or link will open a new browser tab to the Cyber First Aid Box website. The site will ask a series of questions to help families determine the best response to a harmful online incident, including how to approach the subject with children & young people, possible solutions, and the first steps to recovering from it.
Save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus activity
Welcome
We want to alert you to our very important activity this week: we want the learners of Scotland to help us save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus!
This website has lots of great info about the octopus and ways for you to help it:
Once you’ve read a bit more about the octopus – have a think about how you could use your digital literacy skills to find out more about it and use this info to create some posters, slides and websites to raise awareness of the octopus’ plight and help save it!
What next?
Hopefully, you spotted the clues that the tree octopus isn’t real pretty quickly and pointed this out to your teacher!
We think that by learning some of the skills used to make the fake info on this website, you’ll be better prepared to spot other info like this and know how to check it for accuracy.
We want you to create your own fake animal awareness campaign. You’ll need to think of an animal and then imagine it living in a biome, or habitat, that isn’t it’s natural home… like a mountain-dwelling narwhal or Arctic elephant!
Then you’ll need some facts that sound believable, even though they’re not true – so things like what your imaginary animal eats, where it sleeps and how big it is.
Finally, you’ll create some online content, maybe using slides, websites, blogs or even a video.
You can share these with us on twitter: @DigiLearnScot
Activity 1 – fact finding and note making
- Use your web browser to find out three (or more) facts about an animal
- Then pick a biome it wouldn’t normally live in and find out three facts about that place and how animals normally survive there
- Make notes of this info as you go – it’ll come in handy later
teachers might want to use some of these ideas to expand upon the features of fake news and unreliable sources:
Digital Media Literacy: The Blur Between Facts and Opinions in the Media (gcfglobal.org)
Activity 2 – photo manipulation
The photos on the octopus site were faked and so are many other photos online and in newspapers and magazines too.
Read this page to find out more about manipulated photos
You don’t need fancy software to edit photos, here are some tips:
PowerPoint – remove background
Keynote – instant alpha
- Start with a background photo of the place your imaginary animal is going to live – add it to your app
- Then add the photo of your animal
- Now, use either the remove background in PowerPoint or instant alpha in Keynote, for example, to cut out any background on your animal picture
- It should now look like your animal lives in the place you have as the background
Here’s my mountain-dwelling narwhal from earlier:
Activity 3 – making fake news
You now have an imaginary animal, some facts about it and a photo proving its existence – now all you need to do is put it together and share it with the world to convince them of it’s existence!
You could have a look at these:
https://www.beano.com/games/random-animal-mash-up
https://switchzoo.com/newzoo/zoo.htm
There are lots of great tools for creating and sharing content online, here are just some of them:
Sway
We can’t wait to see your fake news imaginary animals on twitter!
ALL CREDIT FOR THE OCTOPUS CONTENT TO THE SITE’S OWNER: Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (zapatopi.net)
Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Activities
Activity 1: consume create communicate
Activity 2: cyber resilience
Activity 3: internet safety
The Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety – Digital Schools Award
The Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety is designed to provide education professionals with the resources and support required to help pupils safely navigate the digital world.
Schools that successfully complete the programme receive a nationally recognised award by Education Scotland.
Register your school
Find out more about:
Level 4 Resources for Cyber Fundamentals and Internet Safety
Education Scotland have collaborated with Girvan Academy in South Ayrshire to produce a set of resources that combine the SQA level 4 units in Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety. These resources 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.
The following teaching resources have been created:
- Getting Started with Chromebook
- Getting Started with iPad
- Getting Started with Online Accounts
- Getting Started with Devices teaching PowerPoint
- Getting Started with Online Accounts teaching PowerPoint
Assessment evidence
The assessor will use the portfolio approach to generate evidence that learners have achieved these units.
A learner must complete the Getting Started with Online Accounts booklet, one of the relevant ”Getting Started with Chromebook/iPad’ booklets (depending on what device they have set up), and then the assessor must complete an observation checklist for every learner:
- Assessor answer booklet
- Observation checklist
- Learner profile
The teacher answer booklet and prior verification certificate can be downloaded from the SQA secure site.
Communicate: technology-assisted harmful sexual behaviour with Stop It Now
The Stop It Now! programme is designed to help teachers support learners with Technology-Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour.
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