Category: Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety

curricular area and keeping learners safer online

January 20, 2023

02 March AM, PM and evening, NCSC Childminders in Scotland session and play-along for children (early level)

As childminders, you want to create a safe and secure environment for the children in your care. As we become ever more reliant on digital technology it is increasingly important that you protect data (on children, and families), finances and also the integrity of any digital systems you use, including email, communication channels and databases.

This webinar is for all childminders working in Scotland. It is run by the National Cyber Security Centre and supported by the Scottish Government, Education Scotland, Scottish Childminding Association and the Care Inspectorate, as part of Cyber Scotland Week. It will provide you with advice and steps you can take to minimise the likelihood and impact of a cyber attack, and information about where to get help and advice if you need it.

Join us to identify a handful of steps you can take to minimise the potentially costly and disruptive effect of a cyber incident, and better safeguard the children in your care, as well as your business’s finances and reputation.

Part of the 9.30am and 1.30pm sessions include a story ‘Monkey Cow’ by Stuart Spendlow and a hands on activity for children, focusing on creating secure passwords. To take part in the children’s activity, you will require some resources to hand:

• bag/box

• random household objects/ toys

• post it notes/small pieces of paper

• pens/pencils

Please click on one of the time slots below to join us in one of the 50 minute interactive online sessions for all childminders in Scotland and the children in your care.

Click here to sign up to the 9.30am -10.20am session

Click here to sign up to the 1.30pm -2.20pm session

7PM SESSION IS FULL SIGN UP NOW CLOSED (shorter childminder only session, no children’s activity)

When you have signed up, a join link will be sent to you via the email you use to sign up.

The link will ask you to join an online Microsoft Team’s meeting. No log in is required.

January 20, 2023

Cyber Scotland Week 2023 #CSW2023

This session’s Cyber Scotland Week will take place 27th February – 5th March 2023.
Let us know what you’re up to on twitter @digilearnscot with #CSW2023

Education Scotland will be delivering and supporting live sessions all over the country and online, as well as making asynchronous opportunities and resources available too.

About CSW23

The Three Aims of Cyber Scotland Week are:

Protection – improving cyber resilience knowledge, behaviours, awareness and practice

Innovation – showcasing innovative work happening across Scotland’s cyber sector

Skills and Careers – promoting skills development and a career in cyber security and to discover the importance of cyber security

Full events schedule

These are events already confirmed with more to be added:

Monday 27th February

All day – CyberFirst development day: Falkirk (CyberFirstGirls_DevelopmentDays_flyer)

1100 – 1145, Barefoot Live Lesson (First Level)

Tuesday 28th February

All day – CyberFirst development day: Inverness (CyberFirstGirls_DevelopmentDays_flyer)

Thursday 2nd March

All day – CyberFirst development day: West College Scotland Glasgow campus (CyberFirstGirls_DevelopmentDays_flyer)

0930 – 1015, Tech She Can LIVE assembly: Tech Safety and Security

AM, PM & twilight (3 sessions) – NCSC childminder session and read and play along for children (Early Level)

Friday 3rd March

All day – CyberFirst development day in Microsoft HQ Edinburgh (CyberFirstGirls_DevelopmentDays_flyer)

Monday 6th March

All day – CyberFirst development day: Maybole (CyberFirstGirls_DevelopmentDays_flyer)

Sign up for these LIVE sessions

- Join Barefoot for this live lesson on Cyber Resilience, for first level learners. In this live lesson we will explore the idea of how and why we can keep our things secure using locks and… …

January 13, 2023

ceop (formerly thinkuknow)

Resource Library (thinkuknow.co.uk)

January 13, 2023

cyber challenge uk

– Cyber Games UK

January 13, 2023

cyber explorers

December 20, 2022

Cyber Security

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- Education Scotland is the proud regional partner with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CyberFirst programme. The NCSC etc Education Scotland's digilearn programme provides national guidance, support and inspiration to local authorities, schools and educators… …

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December 20, 2022

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety for secondary teachers

This section aims to provide ideas, information and professional learning to support secondary teachers develop confident and responsible children and young people that are cyber resilient or interested in studying cyber security.

go to cyber home

Understanding cyber resilience and internet safety

This section has three options to support teachers with cyber:

The Cyber Toolkit breaks cyber resilience and internet safety into 3 concise themes to help with planning, teaching and assessment
The Essential Teacher Digital Skills support teachers with the fundamental skills of passwords, account logins and WiFi networks
This is Cyber CLPL is an ongoing programme of professional learning for more confident teachers who want to develop a deeper understanding and implement change in their setting

Cyber toolkit for teachers

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.

go to Cyber Toolkit

Essential digital and cyber skills for teachers

Start here if you need support with basic digital literacy skills, such as creating passwords, logging in to Glow or connecting to Wi-Fi.

go to Essential Skills

This is Cyber professional learning (CLPL)

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.

go to This is Cyber CLPL

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:

Computing science teachers may focus on cyber security as a specialist subject that can be studied with qualifications in Scotland
PSHE teachers may focus on aspects of online citizenship, security and safety
Literacy & English teachers may focus on information literacy and the credibility of online content

Cyber security and computing science

cyber security for secondary schools

Cyber security can be studied in Scottish education as a discrete subject. It offers challenge, problems to solve and opportunities.

go to cyber security

Personal, social, and health education (PSHE)

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.

go to cyber in HWB

Literacy and English

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.

go to cyber in literacy

December 20, 2022

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 resilient.

go to cyber home

Understanding cyber resilience and internet safety

This section has three options to support teachers with cyber:

The Cyber Toolkit breaks cyber resilience and internet safety into 3 concise themes to help with planning, teaching and assessment
The Essential Teacher Digital Skills support teachers with the fundamental skills of passwords, account logins and WiFi networks
This is Cyber CLPL is an ongoing programme of professional learning for more confident teachers who want to develop deeper understanding and implement change in their setting

Cyber toolkit for teachers

go to Cyber Toolkit

Essential digital and cyber skills for teachers

Start here if you need support with basic digital literacy skills, such as creating passwords, logging in to Glow or connecting to Wi-Fi.

go to Essential Skills

This is Cyber professional learning (CLPL)

go to This is Cyber CLPL

Cyber across the curriculum

Literacy and English

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.

go to cyber in literacy

Numeracy and mathematics

More shopping than ever is done online. Learners need to understand how to set up devices and accounts with secure email and passwords, as well as how to identify and report scams and cyber threats.

go to cyber in maths

Health and wellbeing

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.

go to cyber in HWB

August 2, 2022

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.

Open the Cyber First Aid box

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March 25, 2022

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:

Octopus website

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!

tree octopus

Let’s get started!

Wait a minute, though… tree octopus?

Before you go making any resources we want you to check some things:

Who created the page and wrote the information?
Does it have pictures or video that show you the tree octopus?
Are there links to other sites about the octopus?
See inside the page

Teachers click here

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)

Digital Media Literacy: What is Fake News? (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

Glow blogs

Slides

Sites

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)