Educating and Empowering Students to Identify, Avoid, Manage and Mitigate Cyber Risks
Our Cybersecurity Learning Platform provides the curriculum and functionality to ensure students receive the practical, non-technical knowledge and strategies to be safe and successful in the digital world.
Below are examples of a handful of actual lessons from our course for third, fourth and fifth graders. Each video lesson is followed by a short assessment to ensure students grasp the key concepts. Lessons also include supplemental resource documents comprised of discussion questions, vocabulary words and definitions, scenarios and demonstration ideas to support teachers with additional classroom learning.
Video 1
Module: Introduction to the Digital World / Lesson: Hardware
This is an early lesson that provides students a basic understanding of hardware, to include digital devices, such as smartphones, computers and tablets, printers, keyboards, monitors, etc. This lesson is followed by lessons in software, connecting to the internet and a discussion on the World Wide Web.
Video 2
Module: Introduction to the Digital World / Lesson: Downloading and Posting
This lesson helps students understand the basics of navigating the digital world, to include how to download files and how to post content, with an emphasis on security, safety and appropriateness.
Video 3
Module: Passwords / Lesson: How to Make a Strong Password
This lesson is one of nine focused on teaching students about access control, the importance of properly securing digital devices and programs, and how to make strong passwords.
Video 4
Module: Malware / Lesson: Human Viruses vs. Computer Viruses
This lesson uses students' understanding of the common cold and other biological viruses to explain how computer viruses and other types of malware can infect and damage digital devices and files, and how to keep viruses out.
Video 5
Module: Fraud, Theft & Cyber Criminals / Lesson: Cyber Criminals
This lesson focuses on the fact that cyber criminals and online predators do not fit a particular style or stereotype. It helps students be aware of the fact that bad online actors could be anyone. The only thing they all have in common is that they use lies and trickery to steal data and cause harm.
Video 6
Module: Phishing / Lesson: The Bait
This lesson is one of ten that explain the cyber crime of "phishing" and gives students information, tools and strategies to recognize and avoid cyber scams.
Video 7
Module: Cyber Trust / Lesson: Child Exploitation
This lesson is part of a module that helps students understand who and what information they should trust online. This lesson is focused on providing students tell-tale signs of when people might be someone other than who they say they are, and strategies to keep themselves safe.
Video 8
Module: Digital Footprint / Lesson: What is a Digital Footprint
This lesson defines students' digital footprint as the trail of data they leave behind on the internet, including all the content posted, websites visited and any other information about them online. Subsequent lessons show students the potential consequences of their digital footprint, how to be thoughtful about what they post, and how to take control of their online reputation.
Video 9
Module: Social Media / Lesson: What to Post
This module provides students an overview of social media which 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are likely to be exposed to in the next few years (at this age, some students are already on social media and many are on gaming sites that pose some of the same risks). This lesson focuses on what students should consider before they post any content online.
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