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We have created this pack to support you in running your own Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety event. It contains information to support you when discussing different areas of CRIS (no one knows everything!) and provides activities to engage young people and adults to share their experiences of the online world.
If you do deliver your own CRIS event – please share your story with us here.
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The Scottish Government (2017) states: “Every child and young person has an age appropriate and evolving understanding of the opportunities and risks which exist in the online world.”
This is defined within these outcomes:
Communicate visually wit colourful graphics to tell a story, explain a concept, summarise a plot, or show how a pattern can be represented visually. Comics… Read more
Open House at The School of Innovation + Technology – Glasgow School of Art, Sat 14 Dec 2024 at 13:00 Come and join our creative… Read more
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This session, facilitated by Rebecca from Code Club is aimed at learners have had some experience with Scratch. Join Rebecca from Code Club and create a… Read more
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Provocations There were a number of speakers during the morning session to set the scene and provide stimulus for discussions. You can watch and /… Read more
A good lesson is a good lesson, regardless of curricular area. HGIOS (4th edition) makes clear that high engaging learning, quality teaching and effective assessment, will improve educational outcomes for all learners.
As with any other area of the curriculum, in CRIS learning the context should be meaningful and relevant to the leaders – for many children and young people the internet and web are routine aspects of their lives already. Therefore, learners should be given the opportunity to share what they already know about the internet and web and the educators can use effective questioning and engaging activities to spark the learners curiosity about CRIS even further.
As educators we may need to develop our own knowledge and understanding of CRIS in order to support and challenge our learners’ thinking, and to make the contexts relevant and meaningful.
Finally, assessing the learners’ progress is vital to identify next steps and improve their educational outcomes. There is certainly scope to use formative assessment as learners learn, summative quizzes to check their knowledge and understanding recall but also to assess their ability to apply their learning in new contexts, such as with new apps, devices or curricular areas.
This lessons explains what the internet and world wide web are, with opportunities for learners to engager with research, share opinions and apply their learning.
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The Scottish Government (2015) states that: “Cyber resilience is being able to prepare for, withstand, rapidly recover and learn from deliberate attacks or accidental events in the online world. Cyber security is a key element of being resilient, but cyber resilient people and organisations recognise that being safe online goes far beyond just technical measures. By building understanding of cyber risks and threats, they are able to take the appropriate measures to stay safe and get the most from being online.”
Passwords and 2FA
Cyber threats
In the UK, we spend more money online per capita than any other nation. So, if our learners are spending money online – how are you supporting them to be as safe and secure as possible? What threats are they likely to face when spending money online?
Your Money Matters is a FREE financial education textbook for Scottish schools – chapter 6 looks at cyber resilience in financial education.
This page has more cyber resilience in financial education, as well as other numeracy and mathematics contexts.
These lessons plans with activities were created by Barefoot Computing. They are free to access from Barefoot Computing and link to CfE.
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