Category: FrameworkCRIS

Managing digital identity

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Practitioners should be able:

  • to create and manage one or multiple digital identities (separate work and personal)
  • to be able to protect one’s own reputation
  • to deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments and services. 

Support and Examples

The Common Sense digital citizenship program will look at digital footprint and other topics such as new & media literacy.

Hide My Email lets you create unique random email addresses to use with apps, websites and more so your personal email address can stay private. It’s built in to Sign in with Apple and iCloud+

This information guide from the National Parent Forum of Scotland is for parents and carers.

It’s clear that what we post online can have a real impact on our lives offline. This site helps you understand the long-lasting effects of what you share and empowering you to take control of how your online reputation is created. Created by internetmatters.org This resource is designed to help young people manage their online identity and the understand the Importance of a good online reputation.

Also, internetmatters.org provides information about how to deactivate/delete old social media accounts.  This will enable young people to stay in control of their digital footprint as they move onto new social media platforms 

ThinkUKnow will help you understand how leaners socialising online and how these form part of their digital footprint.

 

Resilience

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To know how to recognise, react and recover appropriately to incidents involving devices, data, wellbeing and identity in relation to yourself and others.

Support and examples

This resource is to support you recover for any cyber incident.  The first aid box includes cyber security advice and emotional wellbeing advice to support the recovery process.

The CyberExplorers site will give learners the ability to use the knowledge and skills they have gained to stop a cyber-attack, demonstrating how they could contribute to keeping our world a safer place to live in. These real-world skills will be invaluable to them in their lives and future careers.

The National Cyber Security Centre will give you knowledge and skills to back up your data and apply security updates. To make you and your accounts more resilient

CyberFirst is a programme of opportunities to help young people explore their passion for tech by introducing them to the fast paced world of cyber security.

Our teacher tool kit will support you find the correct resource to enable you to gain knowledge and start conversations with leaners about making their device and themselves more resilient while using the Internet.

Protecting personal data and privacy

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Practitioners should be able:

  • to create and manage one or multiple digital identities (separate work and personal),
  • to be able to protect one’s own reputation
  • to deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments and services.  

Support and Examples

This SQA level 3 cyber security unit has an outcome on personal data security.  Education Scotland have created teaching resources that give leaners a basic understanding of how their data is gathered and used.

This link is to a glow team that host the resources.  If you do not have a glow login you will not get access to the resources.

Combined level 4 Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety assessment. There are a set of three booklets that will help secondary school pupils set up iPad, Chromebook and online accounts. These booklets are designed for learners to work through independently.The online accounts booklet has information on how to use privacy settings.

This site from the National Cyber Security Centre gives you information on how to remove your personal data form old devices such as:

  • iPhone
  • Chromebooks
  • Android

Hack the Raspberry Pi’s terminal and learn basic cyber security skills through a Pac-Man–themed treasure hunt.  This activity will help you gain a better understanding of how a hacker gets access to your data.

Our teacher tool kit will support you find the correct resource to enable you to gain knowledge and start conversations with leaners about what platform they are using to consume, create and communicate.

These guides from hwb.gov.wales include a detailed overview of the app, outlining the age rating and key terminology. They also highlight the risks each app poses to young people and gives detailed instructions on how to enable parental controls and safety settings.

Protecting Devices

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To protect devices and digital content, and to understand risks and threats in digital environments.

  • To understand safety and security measures and to have due regard to reliability and privacy.

Support and Examples

 

Parental controls from internetmatters.org will give you knowledge on how to set up devices and make the most of the privacy settings on the networks, gadgets, apps, and sites that leaners may use.

Combined level 4 Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety assessment. There are a set of three booklets that will help secondary school pupils set up iPad, Chromebook and online accounts. These booklets are designed for learners to work through independently.

CyberGames UK contains different games to help you test your cyber skills.  These games a brought to you by the National Crime Agency (NCA) Cyber choices programme.

Cyber Sprinters is for primary school leaners between the age of 7 -11 years old.  As well as the game you get access to a toolkit of educational resources. The focus of the games and teaching resources is around conveying key messages to children and will help them to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in crucial areas:

  • using and managing passwords
  • protecting their devices
  • dealing with suspicious messages

Code-Breaking, Cipher and Logic Puzzles Solving Tools site from bosentriq.com introduces you to concept encryption and decryption.  You can use the site to code and decode your own messages

CyberFirst is a programme of opportunities to help young people explore their passion for tech by introducing them to the fast paced world of cyber security.  CyberFirst covers a broad range of activities – a comprehensive bursary scheme to financially support undergraduates through university and a degree apprenticeship scheme, a girls’ only competition and thousands of free places on CyberFirst courses.