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A Call to Action: Be a Cyber Secure Student!
Securing your personal computer and protecting computers you might
use in a classroom setting plays a crucial role in protecting our
nation's Internet infrastructure. Moreover, teaching our children
on how to become cyber citizens now will better ensure they don't
become cyber crime victims in the future.
Our focus is on helping K-12 educators, administrators and professionals
as well as University professors, executives and IT administrators
to develop programs that help empower students, faculty and school
administrators to take personal responsibility for keeping personal
and public computers secure.
This website provides information on practices
you can teach to help safeguard your student's computers,
K-12 Curriculum that educators can use in classrooms, educational
materials and other Internet resources, as well as valuable information
from our supporting organizations.
NEW! - NCSA Cyber Security Assembly Toolkit
The National Cyber Security Alliance working in conjunction with i-Safe Inc. produced a Cyber Security Assembly In-a-Box Toolkit. This toolkit provides educators with a plug-in play solution for presenting cyber security awareness messages and tips to students in middle and high schools. The material is delivered in a way that is entertaining for students and easy to understand.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2006 - NCSA/USA Today Lessons
During National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we're asking all educators to teach a different cyber security, safety and ethics lesson each week during National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
To make it easier for educators, NCSA teamed up with USA Today Education Foundation and Symantec to develop topical lesson plans, which will be released each week during NCSAM 06. Here are the weekly topics for each lesson plan for October.
Help Keep Kids Connected and Protected on Social Networking Websites
How to Teach Young People Safe Online Practices is a guide designed by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to provide online safety and security tips for educators, parents, and guardians. This guide offers educators tips to use when talking to their students about practicing safe online behavior and it offers parents and guardians tips for helping children ages 12-17 navigate the online social scene safely. Click Here.
K-12 Curricula
- Play
It Cyber Safe: Curriculum for elementary and middle school
students on copyright issues and illegal software copying, downloading,
and distributing.
- CyberEthics
Project: An educational program to address the problem of
juvenile cybercrime .
- The
CyberSmart! Curriculum: K-8 standards-based lessons for teachers
to introduce secure, responsible and effective technology use
in the classroom.
- NetSmartz
Teaching Material: NetSmartz is a modular adaptable resources which uses interactive 3-D animated activities and corresponding activity cards to teach children and teens how to stay safer online. Activity cards are 20-30 minute modules designed to reinforce Internet safety strategies. Using activity cards in conjunction with the online activities allows teachers to reinforce basic concepts of Internet safety through collaboration, critical thinking, focused discussion, and interaction, both in the classroom and on the Internet. NetSmartz is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
- BeCyberSmart!®
videos: This collection of five BeCyberSmart! videos and
related materials was produced in 2005 by The Mid-Atlantic Regional
Technology in Education Consortium at Temple University (MAR*TEC)
in partnership with The CyberSmart!® Education Company.
BeCyberSmart!® introduces the "new literacies" — The interconnected
skills of effective, ethical and secure technology use in support of
K-12 teaching, learning and living in the 21st Century.
- i-Safe Cyber Security Lessons for Grades K-8:
The goal of i-Safe's cyber security curriculum is to empower and
educate children on ways to navigate and communicate safely on
the Internet. i-Safe's lessons are broken down by grades (K-8),
and each grade's lesson focuses on a different topic (viruses,
cyber ethics, cyber safety).
Educator and Parent Materials
Higher Education
- Student Video Contest: Winning videos are available for free download or streaming and can be used in campus security awareness campaigns during student orientation, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (October), and throughout the year.
- Cyber
Security on Campus Video: A new executive awareness video,
produced by the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force in partnership
with George Mason University, featuring several university presidents
and their CIOs.
- Additional
Executive Awareness Materials: Corresponding set of materials
for raising executive security awareness.
- Resource
Kit for National Cyber Security Awareness Month: These materials
will help give you an number of ideas and ways your college can
participate in National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
School Administrators
White Papers
- NCSA
Education White Paper: "An Action Agenda for Securing the
Nation's Digital Resources: Start in Kindergarten": Provides learners
essential skills for secure and trusted computing.
- Secure,
Responsible & Effective Technology Use K-12 : This presentation
was created specially for the Stay Safe Online cyber security
campaign and is narrated by Jim Teicher and Mala Bawer, Executive
Directors of The CyberSmart! School Program.
K-12 Cyber Security, Safety and Ethics Resource List
There are a number of cyber security education resources and curriculum available to educators. So much so, it can be confusing at times. To make it easier for you to better understand what type of resources each organization has to offer, the National Cyber Security Alliance's K-12 Working Group made a list of resources available to you and a brief description of what each organization specializes in. We hope this list will make it easier for you to pick the educational resources you need.
NCSA K-12 Working Group Cyber Security Education Resource List |
